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- Davin, Eric Leif.
- Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965.
(Lexington Books: 2006). ISBN 0-7391-1266-X; 0-7391-1267-8.
- Day, Phyllis J.
- "Earthmother / Witchmother: Feminism and Ecology
Renewed." Extrapolation 23 (Spring 1982): pages 12-21.
- De Armas, Frederick A.
- The Invisible Mistress: Aspects of Feminism and
Fantasy in the Golden Age (1976. Charlottesville, VA: Biblioteca Siglo de Oro) (190 pp.)
(Spanish literature).
- De Bolt, Joe, editor.
-
Ursula K. Le Guin: Voyager to Inner Lands and Outer Space.
Port Washington, NY & London: Kennikat Press & National University
Publications, 1979. Introduction by Barry N. Malzberg.
- DeCandido, Grace Anne.
- "Bibliographic Good vs. Evil in Buffy the
Vampire Slayer." American Libraries v. 30, no. 8 (1999): pp. 44-51.
- Dehler, Joanna.
- "Revising Paradise: Judy Grahn's Ecotopia
Mundane's World." in Future Females, ed. by Marleen S. Barr
(Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham MD: 2000), pp. 35-48.
- Del Rey, L.
- "The War of the Sexes." Analog Volume 95, Number 6
(1975): pages 166-170.
- Delamotte, Eugenia C.
- Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic
- Delany, Samuel R.
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--. "About Five Thousand One Hundred and Seventy-Five Words."
Extrapolation v. 10 (May 1970): pp. 52-66.
--. Introduction. Alyx by Joanna Russ. Boston: Gregg
Press, 1976.
--. The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes of the Language of Science
Fiction (New York: Berkley, 1977) (queer criticism)
--. "To Read The Dispossessed in The Jewel-Hinged
Jaw (Elizabethtown, NY: Dragon Press, 1977).
--. Starboard Wine, More Notes on the Language of Science
Fiction (Pleasantville, NY: Dragon Press, 1984).
--. "Orders of Chaos: The Science Fiction of Joanna
Russ." Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and
Fantasy, edited by Jane B. Weedman. Lubock: Texas Tech Press,
1985: 95-124.
--. "Book Review: Always Coming Home." The New York
Times Book Review v. 90 (Sept. 29, 1985), pp. 31+.
--, and Joseph Beam. "Samuel R. Delany: The Possibility of
Possibilities," in In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology, ed. by
Joseph Beam (Boston: Alyson, 1986).
--. Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction,
and Some Comics. Wesleyan/UP of New England: 1994.
--. Much, much more, far too much to include here.
- Delany, Sheila.
- "Ambivalence in Utopia: The American Feminist Utopias of
Charlotte P. Gilman and Marge Piercy" in Writing Woman: Women Writers
and Women in Literature, Medieval to Modern (New York: Schocken Books,
1983): pp. 157-180.
- De Lauretis, Teresa.
- Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film and
Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
- Dery, Mark.
- "Slashing the Borg: Resistance is Fertile." Available
at
http://www.dds.nl/~n5m/texts/markdery.htm . About Star Trek
slash.
- DeWeese Gene.
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"Other Voices," Science Fiction Review (#39) (Summer
1981): p. 43. Review of Wild Seed, by Octavia Butler.
"Other Voices," Science Fiction Review (#40) (Fall 1981):
p. 43. Review of Kindred, by Octavia Butler.
- Dickerson, Vanessa D.
- Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide: Women Writers and the
Supernatural Univ. of Missouri Press (1996), ISBN 0826210813.
- Dijkstra, Bram.
- Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siecle Culture
- Dillingham, Thomas F.
- "Joanna Russ." Beacham's Popular Fiction of America,
v. 3. Washington, D.C.: Beacham Publishing, 1987: pp. 1204-1213.
- Disch, Thomas M.
- "Taking Flight with Thomas Disch: An Interview by David
Galbraith and Alexander Wilson," in Body Politic: A Magazine for Gay
Liberation (Toronto), no. 79 (Dec. 1981). [discusses sexual politics]
- Doane, Mary Ann.
- "Film and the Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator."
Screen, volume 23, number 3/4 (1982): 74-87.
- Dock, Julie Bates, compiler.
- The Yellow Wall-Paper: And the History of Its
Publication and Reception (Pennsylvania State Univ. Press; May 1998; ISBN 0271017341; 192
pp.) (includes the text of the story; book reviews; and a bibliographic history of the
work)
- Donawerth, Jane.
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--. "Teaching Science Fiction by Women." English Journal
Volume 79 (March 1990): pages 39-46.
--. "Lilith Lorraine: Feminist Socialist Writer in the Pulps."
Science-Fiction Studies v. 17, no. 2 (issue 51) (July 1990): pp.
252-258.
--. "Utopian Science: Contemporary Feminist Science Theory and
Science Fiction by Women." NWSA Journal Volume 2, Number 4 (Autumn
1990): pages 535-57.
--. "Science Fiction by Women in the Early Pulps, 1926-1930."
Utopian and Science-Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference.
(Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994): pp. 137-152.
--. Frankenstein's Daughters: Women Writing Science Fiction
(Syracuse University Press, 1996/1997) ISBN 0-8156-2686-X
- Donawerth, Jane, & Carol A. Kolmerten, eds.
- Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of
Difference. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994; Liverpool:
Liverpool University Press, 1994; (ISBN 0-85323-269-5 hardback;
0-85323-279-2 paperback). [Reviewed in Science Fiction Studies
#65: Volume 22, Part 1 (March 1995): pages 127 - 129.]
- Douglas, Susan J. Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the
Mass Media. New York: Random House, 1994. Discusses "Bewitched" and
"I Dream of Jeannie" among others.
- Doskow, Minna. "Introduction" to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian
Novels: Moving the Mountain, Herland, and With Her in Ourland (March
1999: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, ISBN 0838637612)
- Dozois, Gardner R.
- The Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr.. Boston: G. K. Hall,
1976; New York: Algol Press, 1977; Borgo Press: 1983. Originally published
as introduction to Tiptree's 10,000 Light-Years from Home, Gregg
Press.
- Draine, Betsy.
- "Changing Forms: Doris Lessing's Memoirs of a
Survivor." Studies in the Novel, v. 11 (1979): pp. 51-62.
- Drake, Barbara.
- "Two Utopias: Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time
and Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossed" in Sheila Roberts & Yvonne
Pacheco Tevis, Editors, Still the Frame Holds: Essays on Women Poets
and Writers (Women Writers on Women Writers). San Bernardino,
California: Borgo Press, 1993, pp. 109-127.
- Dreyfuss, C.
- "Margaret Atwood: 'Respectability Can Kill You Very
Quickly.'" Progressive Volume 56 (March 1992): pages 30-33.
- Drew, Bernard A.
- Heroines: A Bibliography of Women Series Characters in
Mystery, Espionage, Action, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Western,
Romance & Juvenile Novels (Garland, 1989)
- Duchamp, L. Timmel.
- "Reflections on Woman, Feminism and Science Fiction, 1816-1960: For a Genealogy
on Feminist SF." Foundation v. 31, no. 84 (Spring 2002): pp. 49-58.
--. "Science Fiction and Utopias by Women, 1818-1949: A Chronology." (available
online)
- Du Mont, Mary J.
- "Images of Women in Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy,
1970, 1980, and 1990: A Comparative Content Analysis." Voice of Youth
Advocates v. 16 (April 1993), pages 11-15, .
- DuPlessis, Rachel Blau.
-
--. "The Feminist Apologues of Lessing, Piercy, and Russ."
Frontiers Volume 4, Number 1 (Spring 1979): Pages 1-8.
--. Writing Beyond the Ending. Bloomington: Indiana
Univ. Press, 1985.
- Du Pont, Denise, editor.
- Women of Vision: Essays By Women Writing Science
Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Includes essays by Ursula
K. Le Guin, Virginia Kidd, Anne McCaffrey, Patricia C. Hodgell, Alice
Sheldon (James Tiptree), Suzette Haden Elgin, Lee Killough, Marion Zimmer
Bradley, Eleanor Arnason, Joan D. Vinge, Pamela Sargent, and Suzy McKee
Charnas.
- Dussinger, John A.
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"Kinship and Guilt in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein."
Studies in the Novel, v. 8, no. 1 (Spring 1976): pp. 38-55.
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- Edvardsen, Marit.
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"Mening i Mellomrommene: En analyse av genre og identitet i Tanith
Lee's The Birthgrave." [Meaning in the Interstices: An Analysis of
Genre and Identity in Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave.]
Hovedfagsoppgave: Universitetet I Tromso, 1999.
- Ehrenreich, Barbara.
- "Book Review: Magic mommas, trembling sisters, puritans and
perverts: feminist essays." [by Joanna Russ] The New York Times
Book Review v. 90 (Sept. 29, 1985), p. 50.
- Eisler, Riane.
- "Pragmatopia: Women's Utopias and Scenarios for a Possible
Future." Paper delivered at the 1986 Conference of the Society of Utopian
Studies, Asilomar, California, October, 1986.
- Elgin, Suzette Haden.
- "Women's Language and Near Future Science Fiction: A Reply."
Women's Studies, v. 14, no. 2 (1987): pp. 175-181.
- Eliot, Jeffrey.
-
"Interview: Diane Duane," Starship, Fall 1980. [Duane
discusses writing & sexuality.]
- Erlich, Richard D.
- "Ursula K. Le Guin and Arthur C. Clarke on Immanence,
Transcendence, and Massacres." Extrapolation v. 28 (Summer
1987): pp. 105-129.
- Evans, Erin.
- "Women Who Write Men Who Have Stories", Woodworks ezine, Nov. 2004,
available at
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/woodworks/2004/issue10_nov/writingmen.html.
- Extrapolation
-
--. Special Issue: "Women and SF." v. 23, no. 1 (1982).
--. Special Issue: Feminism, Feminist Theory, and Science Fiction.
v. 36, no. 3 (Fall 1995).
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- Farley, Tucker.
- "Realities and Fictions: Lesbian Visions of Utopia." in
Women in Search of Utopia: Mavericks and Mythmakers, edited by Ruby
Rohrlich & Elaine Hoffman Baruch, New York: Schocken, 1984, pp. 235-237.
- Fekete, John.
- "The Dispossessed and Triton: Act and System in
Utopian Science Fiction." Science-Fiction Studies, no. 18 (July
1979): pp. 129-143.
- Fenster, Thelma S., editor, and Norris J. Lacy.
- Arthurian Women: A
Casebook (Garland Publishing: 1996; ISBN 0815306237; 344 pp.) [17
essays about Arthurian women in literature]
- Fergus, George.
- "A Checklist of SF Novels with Female
Protagonists," Extrapolation, v. 18, no. 1 (Dec. 1976): pp. 20-27.
- Ferns, Chris.
- "The Value/s of Dystopia: The Handmaid's Tale and the
Anti-Utopian Tradition." Dalhousie Review v 69 (Fall 1989) pp
373-382.
- Feuer, Lois.
- "The Calculus of Love and Nightmare: The Handmaid's
Tale and the Dystopian Tradition." Critique: Studies in
Contemporary Fiction v 38 (Winter 1997): pp 83-95.
- Finch-Reyner, Sheila.
- "Paradise Lost: The Prison at the Heart of Le
Guin's Utopia." Extrapolation v. 26 (Fall 1985), pages 240-248.
- Finney, Kathe Davis. Kathe Finney Davis?
-
--. "The Days of Future Past, or Utopian's Lessing and Le Guin
Fight Future Nostalgia," in Donald M. Hassler, editor, Patterns of the
Fantastic (Academic Programming at Chicon IV.) (Island, WA: Starmont
House, 1983; San Bernadino, Calif: Borgo Press, 1983), pages 31-40.
--. "Guest Editor's Pad: What About Us Grils?"
Extrapolation, v. 36, no. 3 (Fall 1995), pp. 177-180.
- Fishburn, Katherine.
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--. The Unexpected Universe of Doris Lessing. Westport,
Connectictu: Greenwood, 1985.
--. "Doris Lessing's Briefing for a Descent into
Hell: Science Fiction or Psycho-Drama." Science-Fiction Studies
v 44 (1988): pp. 48-60.
--. "Reforming the Body Politic: Radical Feminist Science Fiction"
in Sheila Roberts and Yvonne Pacheco Tevis, editors, Still the Frame
Holds: Essays on Women Poets and Writers (Women Writers on Women
Writers) (San Bernardino, California: Borgo Press, 1993), pages
29-46.
- Fisher, Margery.
- "Writers for Children: 8. Andre Norton." The School
Librarian, 15 (July 1967): pp. 141-144.
- Fitting, Peter.
-
--. "'So We All Became Mothers': New Roles for Men in Recent
Utopian Fiction." Science Fiction Studies Volume 12, no. 2 (July
1985), pages 156-183.
--. "For Men Only: A Guide to Reading Single-Sex Worlds."
Women's Studies v. 14 no. 2 (1987), pages 101-117.
--. "The Turn From Utopia in Recent Feminist Fiction." in Libby
Falk Jones, Sarah Webster Goodwin, editors, Feminism, Utopia, and
Narrative. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990. pages
141-158. about: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Suzette
Haden Elgin's Native Tongue, Zoe Ann Fairbairns Benefits,
and Ursula K Le Guin's Always Coming Home
--. "Reconsiderations of the Separatist Paradigm in Recent
Feminist Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies Volume 19 no. 1
(56) (March 1992), pages 32-48. Discusses Pamela Sargent's The Shore of
Women, Joan Slonczewski's A Door Into Ocean, and Sheri Tepper's
The Gate to Women's Country.
--. "Beyond the Wasteland: A Feminist in Cyberspace." Utopian
Studies, v. 5, no. 2 (1994): pp. 4-15.
- Florence, Penny.
- "The Liberation of Utopia: Or, Is Science Fiction the Ideal
Contemporary Women's Form." in Linda Anderson, editor, Plotting Change:
Contemporary Women's Fiction (London: Edward Arnold, 1990). pages
64-83.
- Forrest, Linda A.
- "Young Adult Fantasy and the Search for Gender-Fair Genres."
Journal of Youth Services in Libraries v. 7 (Fall 1993), pages
37-42.
- Foster, David L.
- "Woman on the Edge of Narrative: Language in
Marge Piercy's Utopia." Academic Programming at Chicon IV. In Donald M.
Hassler, editor, Patterns of the Fantastic (Island, WA: Starmont
House, 1983), pages 47-56.
- Foster, Frances Smith.
- "Octavia Butler's Black Female Future
Vision." Extrapolation v 23, no. 1 (1982): pages 37-49.
- Foster, Thomas.
- "Meat Puppets or Robopaths?: Cyberpunk and the
Question of Embodiment." Genders, 18 (1993): pp. 11-31.
- Foundation.
-
"Foundation Forum: Feminism and SF." Discussion: replies to
Foundation, Winter 1987 v. 41: pp. 72-73. Brian Stapleford; Sarah
Lefanu (reply); Jenny Wolmark (reply); Gwyneth Jones (rejoinder); Colin
Greenland (reply). Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction
(Essex, England), v. 43 (Summer 1988): pp. 59-78.
- Fowler, Karen Joy.
-
--. "The Tiptree Award: A Personal History." WisCon 20 Souvenir
Book, Madison, Wisconsin, SF3, 1996.
--. "Collected Provocations." (Review of To Write Like a Woman:
Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction by Joanna Russ.) Women's
Review of Books, v. 13, no. 5 (February 1996), pp. 12-13.
- Fowler, Kay.
- "Selected Book List
of Feminist or Proto-Feminist SF by Women Writers"
- Fraser, Brian.
-
"Puttin the Past into the Future: Interview with Andre Norton,"
Fantastic Science Fiction (Oct. 1980): pp. 4-9.
- Frazier, Robert.
- "Interview: Joan Vinge," Thrust 16 (Fall 1980): p. 8.
- Freedman, Carl.
- "Joanna Russ and the Violence of Gender" (chapter) in Critical Theory and Science Fiction (Middletown, CT:
Wesleyan University Press, 2000)
- Freeland, Cynthia A.
- The Naked and the Undead (Westview Press; reprint ed. 2001; ISBN 0813365635)
- Freibert, Lucy M.
- "World Views in Utopian Novels by Women." Women and Utopia:
Critical Interpretations. Ed. Marleen Barr and Nicholas D. Smith. New
York: University Press of America, 1983: pp. 67-84.
- Friend, Beverly.
-
--. "Virgin Territory: Women and Sex in Science Fiction."
Extrapolation Volume 14, no. 1 (December 1972): pages 49-58.
--. "Virgin Territory: The Bonds and Boundaries of Women in
Science Fiction" in Many Futures, Many Worlds: Theme and Form in
Science Fiction, edited by Thomas D. Clareson, Kent State University
Press, 1977: pp. 140-163. (Revision of the earlier work.)
--. "Time Travel as a Feminist Didactic in Works by Phyllis
Eisenstein, Marlys Millhiser, and Octavia Butler." Extrapolation
Volume 23, Number 1 (Spring 1982): pages 50-55. Discusses Butler's
Kindred and other works.
- Frisch, Adam J.
- "Toward New Sexual Identities: James Tiptree, Jr." in
Staicar's The Feminine Eye (Ungar: New York, 1982), pp. 48-59.
- Frontiers
- "Dear Frontiers: Letters from Women Fantasy and Science
Fiction Writers." Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, v. 2,
no. 3 (1977): pp. 62-78.
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- Galbreath, Robert.
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"Holism, Openness and the Other: Le Guin's Use of the
Occult," Science-Fiction Studies 7, 1 (March 1980): pp. 36-48.
- Gallardo, Ximena C. and C. Jason Smith.
- Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley (Continuum
International Publishing Group, New Ed edition, 2006; ISBN 0826419100)
- Gamble, Sarah.
- "'Shambleau...and Others': The Role of the Female
in the Fiction of C. L. Moore." In Where No Man Has Gone Before
edited by Lucie Armitt, pages 29-49. London: Routledge, 1991.
- Gant-Britton, Lisbeth.
- "Octavia Butler's Parable of the
Sower: One Alternative to a Futureless Future." in Women of Other
Worlds: Excursions through Science Fiction and Feminism, edited by
Helen Merrick and Tess Williams, University of Western Australia Press:
Nedlands, 1999: pp. 277-294.
- Garber, Eric.
-
"Uranian Worlds: The Best of Gay Sci-fi and Fantasy,"
Out/Look (San Francisco), no. 4 (Winter 1989).
- Garber, Eric & Lyn Paleo.
-
Uranian Worlds: A Reader's Guide to Alternate Sexuality in
Science Fiction and Fantasy.
2d Edition: Uranian Worlds: A Guide to Alternative Sexuality in
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (G. K. Hall: Boston, 1990)
- Gardiner, Judith Kegan.
- "Empathic Ways of Reading: Narcissism,
Cultural Politics, and Russ's Female Man." Feminist Studies
v. 20, no. 1 (Spring 1994): pp. 87-111.
- Gardner, Karin Elizabeth.
- Domestic Violence Against Women
Within the Horror Literature of Stephen King. (dissertation)
- Garland, Barbara.
- "Joanna Russ." Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol.
8, Twentieth Century American Science Fiction Writers, edited by David
Cowart and Thomas L. Wymer. Detroit: Gale Research, 1981. Part 2 (M-Z),
pp. 88-93.
- Garratt, Peter.
-
"Unstoppable Fate: Tanith Lee Interview," Interzone, no. 64
(Oct. 1992): pp. 23-35.
- Garrigan, Kristine Otteson.
- "Book Review: How to Suppress Women's Writing."
Modern Fiction Studies v. 30 (Summer 1984): pp. 373-376.
- Garton, Janet.
- "Little Red Riding Hood Comes of Age: Or, When the Fantastic Becomes the
Feminist." in Essays in Memory of Michael Parkinson and Janine Dakyns (Christopher
Smith, ed., & Mike Carr, fwd.) (Norwich: School of Mod. Lang. & European Studies, Univ. of
East Anglia, 1996, viii, 390 pp.) (pp. 289-294). (discussing Angela Carter, "The Werewolf",
"Red Riding Rood", Marta Tikkanen, Todlluvan (1986), "The Company of Wolves")
- Gasser, Larry W.
-
"Feminism and Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave," The
Harbinger (Harbringer ?), v. 1, no. 2 (Spring 1976): pp. 5-7.
- Gearhart, Nancy, and Jean Ross.
- "Sheldon, Alice Hastings Bradley (Raccoona Sheldon; James
tiptree, Jr.)." Entry in Contemporary Authors (Detroit, Michigan:
Gale Research Company, 1983): v. 108 : pp. 443-450.
- Gearhart, Sally Miller.
- "Future Visions: Today's Politics: Feminist Utopias in
Review." Women in Search of Utopia: Mavericks and Mythmakers,
edited by Ruby Rohrlich and Elaine Hoffman Baruch, New York: Schocken:
1984: pp. 296-309.
- Gerrold, David.
- "At War with the Trolls" in Future Life. (Author
Gerrold on politics and homophobia.)
- Getz, John.
- "A Peace-Studies Approach to The Left Hand of
Darkness." Mosaic (Winnipeg, Manitoba) v. 21 (Spring 1988):
pp. 203-214.
- Gibson, Janine.
- "Slay It Again." Guardian Unlimited
(Friday, Jan. 5, 2001), at http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/
- Gilbert, Sandra M.
-
"Mary Shelley's Monstrous Eve." Feminist Studies, v. 4,
no. 2 (June 1978): pp. 48-73.
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.
-
The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography
(New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1935).
--. A Journey from Within: The Love Letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
1897-1900.
--. A Nonfiction Reader, ed. Larry Ceplair (1991)
- Gladstein, Mimi Reisel and Chris Matthew Sciabarra.
- Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand (Penn State
University Press, 1999).
- Goddard, Terri, and Marion Linwood. "Inter-Galactic Zap: Women Invade
Science Fiction." Spare Rib, no. 46 (May 1976): pp. 44-45.
- Godard, Barbara.
- "My (m)Other, My Self: Strategies for Subversion in Atwood and
Hebert." Essays on Canadian Writing v. 26 (Summer 1983): pp. 13-44.
- Golden, Catherine, editor. The Captive Imagination: A Casebook on
the Yellow Wallpaper (1992: The Feminist Press at CUNY; 341 pp.; ISBN
1558610480)
- Gomez, Jewelle.
-
--. "Imagine a Lesbian ... A Black Lesbian ..." Trivia, no.
12, 1988, pp. 45-60.
--. "Speculative Fiction and Black Lesbians." (Part of a Symposium
on "Theorizing Lesbian Experience.") Signs v. 18 (Summer 1993): pp.
948-955.
- Gomoll, Jeanne.
-
--. "Happy Gays Are Here Again." Janus, v. 3, no. 3
(#9) (1977): pp. 21-22.
--. "The View from Rapunzel's Tower." Janus v. 4, no. 4
(#14): 1978-1979, pp. 32-36.
--. "Out of Context: Post-Holocaust Themes in Feminist Science
Fiction." Janus Part 6 (Winter 1980): pages 14-17.
--. "An Open Letter to Joanna Russ." Aurroa, v. 10 no. 1
(#5) (Winter 1986-87): pp. 7-10.
--. "Contemporary Feminist Science Fiction." Hot Wire: The
Journal of Women's Music and Culture v. 10 n. 3 (September 1994),
pages 36-39, 70.
- Goodwin, Michael.
- "On Reading: A Giant Step for Science Fiction." Mother
Jones I (1976), p. 62. Discusses Joanna Russ's The Female Man.
- Goodwin, Sarah Webster and Libby Falk Jones, editors.
- Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative. Knoxville: University
of Tennessee Press, 1990. (series: Tennessee Studies in Literature, volume
32.)
- Gordon, Joan.
-
--. "Yin and Yang Duke It Out: Is Cyberpunk Feminism's New Age?"
Science Fiction Eye Volume 2, no. 3 (#6) (1990): pages 37-40;
Reprinted in Larry McCaffery, editor, Storming the Reality Studio,
Durham and London, Duke University Press: 1991, pages 196-202.
--. "Connie Willis's Doomsday for Feminism: Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis," The New York Review of Science Fiction, v. 5,
no. 10 (#58), 1993, pp. 4-5.
-- and Veronica Hollinger, editors. Blood Read: The Vampire as
Metaphor in Contemporary Culture (1997, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press);
ISBN 0812216288. Although not explicitly focused on gender, this
collection of essays includes essays on Suzy McKee Charnas and Jewelle
Gomez, among others.
- Gough, Val, and Rudd, Jill, editors.
- A Very Different Story: Essays on the Fiction of Charlotte
Perkins Gilman (1999) (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies,
14)
- Govan, Sovan Y.
-
--. "Connections, Links, and Extended Networks: Patterns in
Octavia Butler's Science Fiction." Black American Literature Forum.
v. 18, no. 2 (1984): pp. 82-87.
--. "Homage to Tradition: Octavia Butler Renovates the Historical
Novel." Melus. v. 13, nos. 1-2 (1986): pp. 79-96.
- Grace, Dominick M.
- "Rereading Lester del Rey's Helen O'Loy." Science Fiction
Studies v. 20 (March 1993), pages 45-51.
- Grace, Sherrill.
- Violent Duality: A Study of Margaret Atwood.
Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1980.
- Graham, Amanda.
- "Herland: Definitive Ecofeminist Fiction?" in
A Very Different Story: Studies on the Fiction of Charlotte Perkins
Gilman, ed. by Val Gough and Jill Rudd (Liverpool UP: Liverpool,
England, 1998): pp. 115-128.
- Grant, Barry Keith, editor.
- The Dread of Difference: Gender and the
Horror Film (University of Texas Press, 1996; ISBN 0292727941)
- Green, Michelle Erica.
- "'There Goes the Neighborhood': Octavia Butler's Demand for
Diversity in Utopias." Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of
Difference, edited by Jane L. Donawerth and Carol A. Kolmerten
(Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1994): pp. 166-189.
- Green, Roland.
-
"Adult Fiction," Booklist, 77 (Sept. 1980): p. 29.
Reviews Wild Seed by Octavia Butler, and discusses
Kindred.
- Greene, Diana.
- "An Asteroid of One's Own: Women Soviet Science Fiction
Writers." Irish Slavonic Studies (ISlSt) (Dublin 2, Ireland) v. 8
(1987).
- Greven, David.
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