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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.
--. "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.
"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.
--. "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.
"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.
"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.
--. 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.
"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.
"Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Defiant Women, Decadent Men, Objects of Power, and Witchblade" in Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture edited by Sherrie A. Inness (2004).
Griffith, Nicola.
--. "The New Aliens of Science Fiction." http://www.sff.net/people/Nicola/aliens.htp [originally at: http://www.america.net/~daves/ng/aliens.html ] Originally appeared in Nebula Awards 30 May 1996.
Gubar, Susan.
--. "C. L. Moore and the Conventions of Women's Science Fiction." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Indianapolis, 7 November 1979; published in Science-Fiction Studies v. 7, pt. 1 (1980): pp. 16-27.
--. "Feminism and Utopia." Science Fiction Studies v 13 (March 1986): 79-83.
--. "She and Herland: Feminism as Fantasy" in George E. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, and Robert Scholes, editors, Coordinates: Placing Science Fiction and Fantasy (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983), pages 139-149.

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Hacker, Marilyn.
"Science Fiction and Feminism: The Work of Joanna Russ." Chrysalis, Number 4 (1977): pages 67-79.
Halberstam, Judith.
"On Vampires, Lesbians, and Coppola's 'Dracula'." Bright Lights v. 11 (Fall 1993), pp. 7-9.
Hammer, Stephanie Barbe.
"The World As It Will Be? Female Satire and the Technology of Power in The Handmaid's Tale." Modern Language Studies v 20 (Spring 1990) pp 39-49.
Hand, Elizabeth.
"Distant Fingers: Women Visionaries for the Fin-de-Millenaire. Eye, #8, Winter 1991: pp. 31-36.
Haran, Joan.
"(Re)Productive Fictions: Reproduction, Embodiment and Feminist Science in Marge Piercy's Science Fiction," in Science Fiction: Critical Frontiers, edited by John Moore and Karen Sayer, London: Macmillan, 1999.
Haraway, Donna.
--. "A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s." Socialist Review Volume 15 Part 80 (1985): pages 65-107. Revised: "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century" in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women (1991) (pp. 149-181).
--. Primate Visions: Gender, Race and Nature in the World of Modern Science. New York: & London, Routledge, 1989.
--. "Monkeys, Aliens, and Women: Love, Science, and Politics at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Colonial Discourse." Women's Studies International Forum Volume 12, Number 3 (1989): pages 295-312.
--. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. London: Free Association, 1991; New York: Routledge, 1991.
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Hayles, N. B.
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Ingersoll, Earl G.
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Ingham, Patricia.
The Brontes (2006)
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Editor, Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture edited by Sherrie A. Inness (2004, ISBN 1403964033).

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