What would happen if a feminist Jewish wit and scholar invaded David  Lodge’s territory? Marleen S. Barr, herself a pioneer in the feminist  criticism of science fiction, provides a giddily entertaining answer in  this feisty novel. Oy Pioneer! follows professor Sondra Lear as  she makes her inimitable way through a world of learning—at times  fantastic, at times all too familiar, often hilarious, and always  compulsively interesting.     As if Mel Brooks and Erica Jong had joined forces to recreate Sex  and the City for the intellectual set, the story is a heady mix of  Jewish humor, feminist insight, and academic satire. Lear is a tenured  radical and a wildly ambitious intellectual, but is subject nonetheless  to the husband-hunting imperatives of her Jewish mother. Her adventures  expand narrative parameters according to Barr’s term "genre fission."     Mixing elements of science fiction, fantasy, ethnic comedy, satire,  and authentic experience of academic life, Oy Pioneer! is  uncommonly fun—a Jewish feminist scholar’s imaginative text boldly going  where no academic satire has gone before—and bringing readers along for  an exhilarating ride.

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