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Jacob, Susan.

"Woman, Ideology, Resistance: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Third World Criticism." Margaret Atwood: The Shape-Shifter. Eds. Coomi S. Vevaina & C. A. Howells. 1998. pp. 26-43.

Jacobs, Naomi.

--. "Beyond Stasis and Symmetry: Lessing, Le Guin, and the Remodeling of Utopia." Extrapolation 29, no. 1 (1988): pages 33-45; reprinted in Utopian Studies II, edited by Michael S. Cummings and Nicholas D. Smith, editors; Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989: pp. 109-117.
--. "The Frozen Landscape in Women's Utopian and Science Fiction." 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. 190-204.
--. "Failures of the Imagination in Ecotopia." Extrapolation v. 38, no. 4 (Winter 1997) pp. 318-327.

James, Karen.

" Feminism in Science Fiction" in Suite101.com http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/fantasy_and_science_fiction/3464

Jowett, Lorna.

Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan. (Wesleyan University Press: 2005; ISBN 0819567582)

Jameson, Fredric.

--. "World Reduction in Le Guin: The Emergence of Utopian Narrative," Science-Fiction Studies 2, 3 (Nov. 1975): pp. 237-243.
--. "Science Fiction as a Spatial Genre: Generic Discontinuities and the Problem of Figuration in Vonda McIntyre's The Exile Waiting." Science-Fiction Studies v. 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 44-59.

Johnson, Barbara.

"My Monster / My Self." in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.

Johnson, Judith E.

"Women and Vampires: Nightmare or Utopia?" The Kenyon Review v. ns15 (Winter 1993), pages 72-80.

Johnson, Charles.

"A Dialogue: Samuel Delany and Joanna Russ on Science Fiction." Callaloo: An Afro-American and African Journal of Arts and Letters, v. 7, no. 3 (Fall 1984): pp. 27-35.

Johnson, Rebecca O.

"African American Feminist Science Fiction." Sojourner v. 19, n. 6 (February 1994), pages 12-14. (includes interview with Octavia Butler)

Jones, Anne Hudson.

--. "Alexei Panshin's Almost Non-Sexist Rite of Passage" in Future Females: A Critical Anthology edited by Marleen S. Barr (Bowling Green State University Popular Press: 1981), pp. 26-33.
--. "Women in Science Fiction: An Annotated Secondary Bibliography." Extrapolation, v. 23, no. 1 (1982): pp. 83-90.

Jones, Gwyneth.

--. "Gwyneth Jones: Simple Pressures." (Interview). LOCUS v. 35 n. 6 (December 1995), pp. 6-7, 83-84.
--. "In the Chinks of the World Machine." (Review of Lefanu's In the Chinks of the World Machine.) Foundation (Essex, England) v. 43 (Summer 1988), pp. 59-63.
--. "Deconstructing the Starships" (a Language and Society paper presented at "Putting SF to Work" 11 June 1988). Available online at: http://gopher.well.sf.ca.us:70/0/Publications/authors/gwyn/starships.jones [Deconstructing the Starships: Science, Fiction, and Reality]
--. "The Profession of Science Fiction, 38: Riddles in the Dark." Foundation (Essex, England) no. 43 (Summer 1988): pp. 50-59.
--. "The Metempsychosis of the Machine." Science Fiction Studies, v. 24, no. 1, 1997: pp. 1-10.
--. Numerous reviews available at: http://gopher.well.sf.ca.us:70/1/Publications/authors/gwyn

Jose, Jim.

"Reflections on the Politics of Le Guin's Narrative Shifts." Science-Fiction Studies v. 18 (July 1991): pp. 180-197.

Jowett, Lorna.

"Masculinity, Monstrosity and Behaviour Modification in 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'" Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction v. 31, no. 84 (Spring 2002): pp. 59-73.
--. "The Female State: Science Fiction Alternatives to the Patriarchy - Sheri Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country and Orson Scott Card's Homecoming Series." in Science Fiction, Critical Frontiers, ed. by Karen Sayer & John Moore (2000), pp. 169-192.

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Karr, M. A.

"Sally Gearhart: Wandering -- and Wondering -- on Future Ground," in The Advocate (San Mateo, Ca.) no. 286 (2/21/1980).

Kasmer, Lisa.

"Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper: A Symptomatic Reading." Literature and Psychology v. 36, no. 3 (199-?): pp. 1-15.

Kauffman, Linda.

"Special Delivery: Twenty-First-Century Epistolarity in The Handmaid's Tale." In Writin the Female Voice: Essays on Epistolary Literature, edited by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1989: pp. 221-244.

Kaveney, Roz.

"The Science Fictiveness of Women's Science Fiction" in Helen Carr, editor, From My Guy to Sci-Fi: Genre and Women's Writing in the Postmodern World (London: Pandora, 1989), pp. 78-97.

Keesey, Pam.

--. "The Power of Suggestion" in Horror Film Reader edited by James Ursini and Alain Silver (about Robert Wise's 1963 film "The Haunting")
--. essay in Darkling Plain on Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Rappaccini's Daughter"
--. Vamps: An Illustrated History of the Femme Fatale

Keinhorst, Annette.

--. "Emancipatory Projection: An Introduction to Women's Critical Utopias." Women's Studies Volume 14, Number 2 (1987), pages 91-99.
--. Utopien von Frauen in der zeitgeneossischen Literatur der USA (Publisher: P. Lang; ASIN 3820483616; 237 pp.)

Kelly, Gary.

Varieties of Female Gothic

Kelso, Sylvia.

--. Singularities: The Interaction of Feminism(s) and Two Strands of Popular American Fiction, 1968-1989. Ph.D. dissertation, James Cook University of New Queensland, 1996.
--. "The Silver Metal Imagination: Blueprints for Changing Technology in Women's SF". (1994)
--. "Breaking Frames: The Elusive Science Fiction of Joanna Russ." Colloquy, no. 1, 1996: pp. 56-66.
--. "Connie Willis's Civil War: Redreaming America as Science Fiction." Foundation: International Journal of Science Fiction, Autumn, 1997: pp. 67-76.
--. A Glance from Nowhere: Sheri S. Tepper's Fantasy and Science Fiction. Babel Handbooks on Fantasy and SF Writers: Series 1, No. 5. Newcastle NSW: Nimrod Press, 1997.
--. "Loud Achievements: Lois McMaster Bujold's Science Fiction." New York Review of Science Fiction, no. 122 (1998): pp. 1+; no. 123 (1998): pp. 13-15.
--, with Bujold, Lois McMaster. "Letterspace: In the Chinks Between Published Fiction and Published Criticism." 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. 383-409.
--. "Lois McMaster Bujold: Feminism and the Gernsback Continuum in Recent Women's Science Fiction." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (1999?)
--. "Writing New Ones: Myths of Selfhood in Recent Women's Science Fiction," in The Fantastic Self, edited by Janeen Webb and Andrew Enstice, Perth: Eidolon, 1999.

Kessler, Carol Farley.

--, editor. Daring to Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Boston: Pandora, 1984. NB. New edition forthcoming from Syracuse University Press.
--. "Notes Toward a Bibliography: Women's Utopian Writing 1836-1899," Legacy 2(2) Fall 1985: 67-71.
--. "Woman on the Edge of Time: A Novel 'To Be of Use.'" Extrapolation, v. 28, no. 4 (1987): pp. 310-318.
--. "Bibliography of Utopian Fiction by United States Women 1836-1988." Utopian Studies Volume 1, Number 1 (1990): pages 1-58.
--. "Consider Her Ways: The Cultural Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Pragmatopian Stories, 1908-1913." Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994): pp. 126-136. --. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia, With Selected Writings (Liverpool University Press) (ISBN 0-85323-499-X paperback; 0-85323-489-2 hardback)

Ketterer, David.

--. "The Left Hand of Darkness: Ursula K. Le Guin's Archetypal 'Winter-Journey'", in New Worlds for Old: The Apocalyptic Imagination, Science Fiction and American Literature, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1974.
--. "Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: A Contextual Dystopia." Science Fiction Studies. Volume 16, Part 2 (1989): pages 209-17; reprinted in Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992, pp 147-154.

Keulen, Margarete.

Radical Imagination: Feminist Conceptions of the Future in Ursula Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Sally Miller Gearhart (Peter Lang Publishing: 1991, ISBN 3631427530)

Khanna, Lee Cullen.

--. "Women's Worlds: New Directions in Utopian Fiction." The Journal of Utopian Studies Volume 4 (Spring / Summer 1981): pages 47-60.
--. "Truth and Art in Women's Worlds: Doris Lessing's Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five." Women and Utopia Ed. Marleen Barr and Nicholas O. Smith. New York: University Press of America, 1983.
--. "Frontiers of Imagination: Feminist Worlds." Women's Studies International Forum Volume 7, number 2 (1984): pages 97-102.
--. "Women's Utopias: New Worlds, New Texts." Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative. Ed. Libby Falk Jones and Sarah Webster Goodwin. Knoxville: Univesrity of Tenness Press, 1990.
--. "The Subject of Utopia: Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World." Utopian and Science Fiction: Worlds of Difference, edited by Jane Donawerth and Carol Kolmerten, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1994: pp. 15-34.
--. "Utopias." The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States, edited by Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995: pp. 892-894.

Khouri, Diana.

--. "Potere, impotenza, utopia: la fantascienza di Ursula K. Le Guin, Michel Jeury e Marge Piercy" (Italian) ("Power, impotence and utopia..."), in La fantascienza e la critica. Testi del convegno internazionale di Palermo, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1980, pages 222-231. This essay is about non-transcendent utopia in Marge Piercy's work. Utopia come from a condition of total dispossession, when you dont' have nothing else to lose you can only try to built a real immanent utopia. Khouri says that utopia is aim of life against death and immobility; according to her, utopia is revolution. -- at

Khouri, Nadia.

"The Dialectics of Power: Utopia in the Science Fiction of Le Guin, Jeury and Piercy." Science Fiction Studies Volume 7, no. 1 (March 1980): pages 49-61.

Kidd, Virginia.

"Agent First, Anthologist Sometimes, Writer in the Cracks" in Women of Vision, Denise Du Pont, editor. (New York: St. Martin's, 1988): pp. 13-19.

Kimpel, Richard.

"The Mists of Avalon / Die Niebel von Avalon: Marion Zimmer Bradley's German Bestseller." Journal of American Culture v. 9 (Fall 1986), pages 25-28.

King, Betty.

Women of the Future: The Female Main Character in Science Fiction. (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1984).

King, Jeannette, and Pam Morris.

"On Not Reading Between the Lines: Models of Reading in The Yellow Wallpaper." Studies in Short Fiction v. 26 (Winter 1989): pp. 23-32.

Klarer, Mario.

--. "Re-Membering Men Dis-Membered in Sally Miller Gearhart's Ecofeminist Utopia The Wanderground." Extrapolation, v. 32 (Winter 1991): pp. 319-330.
--. "Gender and the 'Simultaneity Principle': Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed." Mosaic (Winnipeg, Manitoba) v. 25 (Spring 1992), pages 107-121.

Klasse, Leila.

"Interview with Sally Gearhart," in Lesbian Insider / Insighter / Inciter, Minneapolis, Minn., No. 1 (Aug. 1980).

Klein, .

"Le Guin's 'Aberrant' Opus: Escaping the Trap of Discontent." Science-Fiction Studies (1977): pp. 287-294.

Klein, Carole.

Doris Lessing: In This World But Not Of It (Little, Brown & Co.: Boston, 1999). Biography, 448 pp.

Klinger, Cornelia.

"Radikalfeminismus, Science Fiction und das Verhaltnis zur Natur." in Gudrun M. Grabher and Maureen Devine, editors, Women in Search of Literary Space. Tubingen: Narr, 1992. pages 180-197. (in German)

Knapp, Mona.

Doris Lessing. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1984.

Knight, Denise D.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Study of the Short Fiction

Koester, Diane.

"Joan Slonczewski's A Door Into Ocean: Why Feminist Utopians Might Like Science Fiction" http://math.uwaterloo.ca/~dmswitze/slonczewski/koester.html

Kolmar, Wendy; and Lynette Carpenter (editors)

Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women (Univ. of Tennessee Pres, 1st ed; 1991; ISBN 0870496883)

Kolmerten, Carol.

"Texts and Contexts: American Women Envision Utopia, 1890-1920." Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference, edited by Jane Donawerth and Carol Kolmerten, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994: pp. 107-125.

Kormalý, Sema.

"Feminist Science Fiction: The Alternative Worlds of Piercy, Elgin and Atwood." Journal of American Studies of Turkey, v. 4 (1996): pp. 69-77. Available at: http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~jast/Number4/Kormali.html .

Kotani, Mari.

"The Alien Vagina." Eye, #9 (Nov. 1991): pp. 65-66.

Kranzler, Laura.

"Frankenstein and the Technological Future." Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction, v. 44 (Winter 1988-1989): pp. 42-49.

Kray, Susan.

"The Things Women Don't Say" in Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy, ed. by Gary Westfahl (2002)

Kress, Susan.

--. "Politics of Time and Space: The Utopian Vision in Woman on the Edge of Time." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, 27 December 1979.
--. "In and Out of Time: The Form of Marge Piercy's Novels" in Future Females: A Critical Anthology edited by Marlene S. Barr (Bowling Green State University Popular Press: 1981), 109-122.

Kristeva, Julia.

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. New York: Columbia, UP, 1982.

Kuhn, Annette. Alien Zones

Kulyk, Christine L.

"Consider Her Ways: Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy by Women." Out of This World, Ottawa: Quarry Press, 1995: pp. 159-176.

Kumar, Krishan.

"Primitivism in Feminist Utopias." Alternative Futures: The Journal of Utopian Studies Volume 4 (Spring / Summer 1981), pages 61-66.

Kuras, Pat M., and Schmieder, Rob.

"When It Changed: Lesbians, Gay Men, and Science Fiction Fandom." Gay Community News (Boston) v. 8, no. 10 (1980 Sept. 27).

Kutenplan, Deborah.

"The Connections: Militarism, Sex Roles and Christianity in The Rebel Passion and Swastika Night." Unpublished paper (1984).

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Lacombe, Michele.

"Feminist Science Fiction: A Commentary." The Sphinx: A Magazine of Literature and Society (Regina, Saskatchewan) v. 4 n. 2 (14) (1982) pp. 138-143.

Lague, Louise.

"Back to the Present." People Weekly v. 36 (Nov. 18, 1991): pp. 69+. (about Le Guin)

Lake, Ken.

"Interview with Lois McMaster Bujold." Vector, Feb. / March 1993: pp. 7-11.

Landon, Brooks.

"Eve at the End of the World: Sexuality and the Reversal of Expectations in Novels by Joanna Russ, Angela Carter, and Thomas Berger." Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature, ed. Donald Palumbo. New York: Greenwood, 1986: pp. 61-74.

Lane, Ann J.

"Introduction" to Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, New York: Pantheon Books: 1979.

Lanser, Susan S.

--. "Feminism's 'Yellow Wallpaper' and the Transformation of Literature," Lecture, Feb. 11, 1988, at the Univ. of Maryland at College Park.
--. "Feminist Criticism, The Yellow Wallpaper, and the Politics of Color in America." Feminist Studies v. 15, no. 3 (Fall 1989): pp. 415-441.

Lant, Kathleen Margaret.

Imagining the Worst: Stephen King and the Representation of Women

Larbalestier, Justine.

--. The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction: From the Pulps to the James Tiptree, Jr., Memorial Award. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Sydney, 1996.
--. "Ending the Battle of the Sexes? Hermaphroditism in Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon and 'Motherhood Etc.' by L. Timmel Duchamp," New York Review of Science Fiction, no. 101, Jan. 1997: pp. 14-17.
--. "Tiptree Stories." 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. 354-369.
--. Opulent Darkness: The Writings of Tanith Lee. Babel Handbooks on Fantasy and SF Writers. New Lambton, New South Wales: Nimrod, 1999; Newcastle: Nimrod Books, 1999?.
--. The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction (2002; Wesleyan Univ. Press; ISBN 081956527X)

Laskowski, George, and Jan Brown.

"Interview with Joan D. Vinge," (Minicon, 1979), in Lan's Lantern, #12 (April 1983), Bloomfield Hills, MI 48013, pp. 13-24.

Law, Richard G.

--. "Science Fiction Women: Victims, Rebels, Heroes." In Donald M. Hassler, editor, Patterns of the Fantastic (Academic Programming at Chicon IV.) (Island, WA: Starmont House, 1983), pages 11-20.
--. "Joanna Russ and the 'Literature of Exhaustion.'" Extrapolation v. 23 (v. 25?) (Summer 1984): pages 146-156.

Leclaire, Jacques.

"Feminisme et dystopie dans The Handmaid's Tale de Margaret Atwood." Etudes canadiennes / Canadian Studies v 21 (1986) t. 1 pp 299-308.

Lefanu, Sarah.

--. "Robots and Romance: The Science Fiction and Fantasy of Tanith Lee" in Susannah Radstone, editor, Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1988), pp. 121-136.
--. Feminism and Science Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Originally published as In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction. London: Women's Press, 1988.
--. "Popular Writing and Feminist Intervention in Science Fiction" in D. Longhurst (ed.) Gender, Genre and Narrative Pleasure, London: Unwin Hyman (1989): pages 177-91.
--. "Who is Tiptree? What is She?" Chapter 11 of Feminism and Science Fiction. Bloomington, Indiana University Press (1989): pp. 105-129.
--. "Sex, Sub-Atomic Particles, and Sociology" in Lucie Armitt, editor, Where No Man Has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction (London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 178-185.
--. "Difference and Sexual Politics in Naomi Mitchison's Solution Three." 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. 153-165.

Le Guin, Ursula K.

--. Response. SF Commentary 26, April 1972, pages 90-92. Response to Lem's comments and review of The Left Hand of Darkness in November 1971 issue.
--. "Science Fiction and the Future of Anarchy," interview with Charles Bigelow and J. McMahon, Oregon Times (Dec. 1974): pp. 24-29.
--. "Vertex Interviews Ursula K. Le Guin," with Gene Van Troyer, Vertex 2 (Dec. 1974).
--. "Ursula K. Le Guin Interview: Tricks, Anthropology Create New Worlds," with Barry Barth, Portland Scribe 4 (May 17-23, 1975): pp. 8-9.
--. "American SF and the Other," Science-Fiction Studies, no. 7 (Nov. 1975): pp. 208-210.
--. "A Response to the Le Guin Issue," Science-Fiction Studies 3 (March 1976): pp. 43-46.
--. "Ursula K. Le Guin: An Interview," with Paul Walker. Luna Monthly 63 (March 1976): pp. 1-7.
--. "The Space Crone," The Co-Evolution Quarterly v. 10 (Summer 1976): pp. 108-111.
--. "Creating Realistic Utopias: 'The Obvious Trouble with Anarchism is Neighbours'" with Win McCormak and Anne Mendel, Seven Days (April 11, 1977): pp. 38-40. (interview)
--. The Language of the Night: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy. New York: Putnam, 1979.
--. Interview: "The Lathe of Heaven," Horizon (Jan. 1980): pp. 33-36.
--. "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Writes the Book." The New York Times Book Review v. 94 (January 22, 1989), pages 1+ .
--. Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
--. "The World of Science Fiction (Women Authors)." Ms. Volume 1, no. 3 (November / December 1990), pages 52-54.
--. "A Citizen of Mondath" in The Profession of Science Fiction: SF Writers on their Craft and Ideas, edited by Maxim Jakubowski and Edward James, Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1992: pp. 73-77.
--. "A Conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin." Para-Doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres, v. 1, no. 1 (1995): pp. 39-57.
--. Many other essays, prose, and reviews of sf, feminist and otherwise. See the Le Guin Bibliography for more detailed citations.

Lehman, Steven.

"The Motherless Child in Science Fiction: Frankenstein and Moreau." in Science-Fiction Studies, #56, v. 19, Part 1 (March 1992), pages 49-58.

Leith, Linda.

--. "Marion Zimmer Bradley and Darkover," Science Fiction Studies, v. 7, no. 1 (#20) (March 1980): pp. 28-35.
--. "Women and Science Fiction," Science Fiction Studies, v. 10 (1983): pp. 247-250.
--. "Canopus in Limbo," Science-Fiction Studies, (1986): pages 320-321.

Lem, Stanislaw.

SF Commentary 24, November 1971, pages 22-24. Review of Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness. Originally published in Quarber Merkur no. 25 and translated from the German by Franz Rottensteiner and revised by Bruce Gillespie.

Leman, Joy.

"Wise Scientists and Female Androids: Class and Gender in Science Fiction" in John Corner, editor, Popular Television in Britain: Studies in Cultural History (London: British Film Institute, 1991), pp. 108-124.

Lenne, Gerard.

"Monster and Victim: Women in the Horror Film." In Sexual Stratagems, ed. Patricia Erens.

Lerner, Frederick Andrew.

"The Newcomer (Fantasy Fiction Writer Esther M. Friesner)." Voice of Youth Advocates v. 14 (December 1991), page 294.

Levine, George, and U. C. Knoepflmacher, editors.

The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

Levy, Michael.

--. "Green SF and Eco Feminism." Originally published in IAFA Newsletter, Spring 1989 issues. Reprinted in Robert Collins and Robert Latham, editors, Science Fiction and Fantasy book Review Annual, 1989 Edition (Westport, CN: Meckler, 1990). "Review article of recent work by Octavia Butler, Nancy Kress, Pamela Sargent, and Sheri S. Tepper" -- ML.
--. Natalie Babbitt. (Boston: Twayne, 1991). "This is the first book-length study of this award-winning children's fantasy writer, a number of whose books have feminist content" -- ML.
--. "Young Adult Science Fiction as Bildungsroman" forthcoming in C. W. Sullivan III, editor, Young Adult Science Fiction, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. "This article discusses the differences between the traditional (male) bildungsroman and the more recently defined female bildungsroman and applies both to YA SF. Among the authors whose works are analyzed are H. M. Hoover, Louise Lawrence and Monica Hughes" -- ML.

Lewes, Darby.

"Gynotopia: A Checklist of Nineteenth Century Utopias by American Women," Legacy 6(2) Fall 1989: pages 29-41.
--. Dream Revisionaries: Gender and Genre in Women's Utopian Fiction, 1870-1920. (1995)

Lieberman, Marcia R.

"'Some Day My Prince Will Come': Female Acculturation Through the Fairy Tale," College English Volume 34 (December 1972), pages 383-395. Reprinted in Jack Zipes' anthology, Don't Bet on the Prince.

Linden, Julie.

"From Woman to Human: A Radical Feminist Reading of Joanna Russ's The Female Man and Extra(Ordinary) People." Master's Thesis, University of Connecticut, 1995.

Literature, Interpretation, Theory

"Margaret Atwood Issue." volume 6 number 3/4 (1995)

Love, Rosaleen.

"The Onion Skin Theory of Identity, The Paint Pot Theory of Gender, and the Blu-tack Theory of Position." 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. 319-328.

Lowe-Evans, Mary, editor.

Critical Essays on Mary Shelley (G. K. Hall, New York; Prentice Hall, London; 1998)

Luckhurst, Roger.

"'Horror and Beauty in Rare Combination': The Miscegenate Fictions of Octavia Butler." Women: A Cultural Review, v. 7 no. 1 (1996): pp. 28-38.

Lurie, Alison.

"Fairy Tale Liberation," The New York Times Book Review, v. 15, n.11 (Dec. 17, 1970).

Lynn, Elizabeth.

Interview: Elizabeth Lynn, A New Spring. Locus (Oct. 1997, #441).

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MacCormack, Patricia.

"Becoming Hu-Man: Deleuze and Guattari, Gender and 3rd Rock from the Sun" in Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media V. 1, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2001), available at http://www.cult-media.com/issue1/Amccor.htm

MacDonald, Andrea.

"Uncertain Utopia: Science Fiction Media Fandom and Computer Mediated Communication." In Theorizing Fandom: Fans, Subculture and Identity, editors Cheryl [verify: or Cherly?] Harris and Alison Alexander. Cresskill: Hampton, 1998. pages 131-152.

Maciunas, Billie.

"Feminist Epistemology in Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time," Women's Studies, v. 20 (1992): pp. 249-258.

MacLean, Katherine.

"The Expanding Mind," in Fantastic Lives: Autobiographical Essays by Notable Science Fiction Writers, Martin H. Greenberg, editor, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981: pp. 79-101.

Maddern, Philippa.

--. "The Remythologising of Time: Some Reflections on Women's Science Fiction Writing in the 1960s and 70s," Melbourne Historical Journal, v. 17 (1985): pp. 37-43.
--. "True Stories: Women's Writing in Science Fiction," Meanjin, v. 44, no. 1 (1985): pp. 110-123.

Magli, Ida.

"L'immagine simbolica femminile e le sue costanti mitico-culturali nella fantascienza" (Italian) ("The simbolic female images and its costants mitics and cultoral in SF"), in La fantascienza e la critica. Testi del convegno internazionale di Palermo, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1980, pages 103-112.
According to Ida Magli, the world of SF is always a transcendent world. The transcendent cannot change the mythic female image, so that Feminism is still not possible. History of woman could start only when the mythic female image is destroyed. -- at

Mahoney, Elizabeth.

"Writing So to Speak: The Feminist Dystopia." Image and Power: Women and Fiction in the Twentieth Century ed. by Sarah Sceats and Gail Cunningham. London: Longman, 1996, pp. 29-40.

Maida, Patricia.

"Kindred and Dessa Rose: Two Novels That Reinvent Slavery." CEAMagazine: A Journal of the College English Association, Middle Atlantic Group. v. 4, no. 1 (1991): pp. 43-52.

Malak, Amin.

"Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and the Dystopian Tradition." Canadian Literature 112 (1987): 9-16.

Maralani, Vida J.

"Women on the Edge of Time: Science Fiction and the Feminist Movement." Ex Post Facto Volume III (1994) (History Students Association, San Francisco State University)
http://www.sfsu.edu/~hsa/ex-post-facto/scifi.html

Martin, Diane.

"Three Questions and some Answers" in The Bakery Men Don't See (1991), Madison, Wisconsin, SF3 (1996): pp. 46-48.

Masello, Robert.

"The Write Stuff: Sci-Fi Authors on Sci-Fi TV." TV Guide v. 41 (July 24-30 1993), pages 16-19. (interview with Le Guin)

Masse, Michelle A.

In the Name of Love: Women, Masochism, and the Gothic

Mathews, Patricia.

"C. L. Moore's Classic Science Fiction" in Staicar's The Feminine Eye (New York: Ungar, 1982), pp. 14-24.

Matson, Elizabeth.

"The James Tiptree, Jr. Award: When a Man is a Woman -- and It Doesn't Matter." Foundation v. 31, no. 84 (Spring 2002): pp. 82-92.

Matthesen, Elise.

"Vampires and Aliens: Pam Keesey and Eleanor Arnason" in Lavendar Lifestyles 11/24/1995

McCaffery, Larry.

"An Interview with Octavia E. Butler." in Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contepmorary American Science Fiction Writers, edited by Larry McCaffery. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990: pp. 54-70.

McCaffrey, Anne.

"Hitch Your Dragon to a Star: Romance and Glamour in Science Fiction" in Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow, edited by Reginald Bretnor, New York: Harper & Row, 1974: pp. 278-292.

McClenahan, Catherine.

--. "Textual Politics: The Uses of the Imagination in Joanna Russ's The Female Man." Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters v. 70 (1982): 114-125.
--. "Wiscon, then and Now." in Wiscon 20 Souvenir Book, Madison, SF3, 1996, pp. 46-48.

McEvoy, Seth.

Samuel R. Delany (New York: Ungar, 1984).

McGhan, Barry.

"Andre Norton: Why Has She Been Neglected?" Riverside Quarterly 4 (Jan. 1970): pp. 128-131.

McGowan, Christine.

"Reflections on Fannish Matrimony." Girls Own Fanzine, no. 1, Jan. 1973, p. 4.

McIntyre, Vonda N., and Susan Janice Anderson.

"Other Works of Interest" in Aurora: Beyond Equality, edited by Vonda N. McIntyre and Susan ...

McKinley, Robin.

"Book Review: Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea." The New York Times Book Review v. 95 (May 20 1990) page 38.

McNally, Raymond.

Dracula Was a Woman

McNerney, Kathleen.

"The Feminist Science Fiction of Margarita Aritzeta." RLA: Romance Languages Annual (West Lafayette, Indiana) v. 2 (1990) pages 488-490.

McQuade, Molly.

"Coming Attractions: Several Notable Authors and Artists Discuss Their Current Projects." Publishers Weekly v. 237 (Feb. 23, 1990): pp. 126+. (Le Guin)

McRoy, Jay.

"Gender Terror and the 'Avenging Spirit' Motif in Japanese Cinema" in Japanese Horror Cinema

Mellor, Anne K.

--. "On Feminist Utopias." Women's Studies Volume 9, Number 3 (1982): pages 241-62. Discusses Charnas and others.
--. "Frankenstein: A Feminist Critique of Science," One Culture: Essays in Sciece and Literature, edited by George Levine, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987: pp. 287-312.
--. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. New York: Methuen, 1988.

Mendlesohn, Farah.

--. "Women in Science Fiction: Six American SF Writers Between 1960 and 1985." Foundation, no. 53 (Autumn, 1991): pp. 53-69.
--. "Gender, Power and Conflict Resolution: 'Subcommittee' by Zenna Henderson." Extrapolation, v. 35, no. 2 (1994): pp. 120-129.

Merrick, Helen.

--. "The Readers Feminism Doesn't See: Feminist Fans, Critics and Science Fiction," in Trash Aesthetics: Popular Culture and Its Audience, edited by Deborah Cartmell, I.Q. Hunter, Heidi Kaye, and Imelda Whelehan, London: Pluton Press, 1997: pp. 48-65.
--. " Slumming with the Space Cadets: A argument for feminist science fiction." Outskirts: Feminisms along the Edge Volume 3, November 1998. http://mmc.arts.uwa.edu.au/chloe/outskirts/archive/VOL3/article3.html or http://www.chloe.uwa.edu.au/outskirts/archive/VOL3/article3.html
--. "From Female Man to Feminist Fan: Uncovering 'Herstory' in the Annals of SF Fandom." 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. 115-139.
--, compiler. "The Erotics of Gender Ambiguity: A Fem-SF Symposium." 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. 164-183. Includes contributions from L. Timmel Duchmp, Janet Barron, Jeanne Gomoll, Suzy McKee Charnas, Rebecca Holden, Nicola Griffith, Elisabeth Vonarburg, Sylvia Kelso, Brian Attebery, and Kelley Eskridge.

Merrick, Helen, and Tess Williams, editors.

--. Women of Other Worlds: Excursions through Science Fiction and Feminism (University of Western Australia: 1999)
1-876268-32-8 Paperback rrp $29.95
http://www.general.uwa.edu.au/uwapress/uwa_critstudies.html#WOMENOTHERWORLDS Essays from Australian feminist sf critics.
"Science fiction is our society's literature of visualization. The blueprint of our imagining creates the structure of the future, whether we visualize it as repeating familiar patterns or full of new possibilities. And for feminists science fiction offers the space to imagine what new institutions, relationships and culture might look like... Feminist science fiction is a rich space at the intersection of popular literature and feminist thought, where extraordinary other worlds are imagined by writers such as Ursula Le Guin and Joanna Russ. Women of Other Worlds examines this phenomenon, collecting work from all aspects of feminist SF - fiction, poetry, criticism, fan-writing, even a recipe. It presents an international sampler of a vibrant and challenging form of contemporary women's writing." (from the blurb about the book)

Merril, Judith.

--. "The Three Futures of Eve." The Canadian, Sept. 11, 1976.
--. "Women in SF." Canadian Woman's Studies / Les Cahiers de la Femme, 1981.
an annotated bibliography
--. "Better to Have Loved: Excerpts from a Life." 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. 422-442.

Merritt, James D.

"She Pluck'd, She Eat" in Future Females: A Critical Anthology edited by Marleen S. Barr (Bowling Green State University Popular Press: 1981) pp. 37-41.

Meyering, Sheryl L.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Woman and Her Work. (1989)

Meyers, Helene.

Femicidal Fears: Narratives of the Female Gothic Experience

Miles, Margaret A.

"'Earthsea Revisited' Revisited': Reply to A. Welton." Voice of Youth Advocates v. 14 (Dec. 1991): pp. 301-302.

Miller, Margaret.

"The Ideal Woman in Two Feminist Science-Fiction Utopias," Science-Fiction Studies, No. 30 (July 1983): pp. 191-198. compares Charnas' Motherlines with Gilman's Herland.

Mills, Alice.

"Burning Women in Ursula K. Le Guin's Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea."

Mixon, Veronica.

"Futurist Woman: Octavia Butler." Essence, v. 15 (1979): pp. 12, 15.

Moers, Ellen.

"Female Gothic: The Monster's Mother." The New York Review of Books Volume XXI, Number 4, March 21, 1974: page 24.

Moi, Toril.

"L'Utopie feminine: Une etude des romans utopiques de Christiane Rochefort." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Bergen, Norway, 1980.

Monk, Patricia.

"Frankenstein's Daughters: The Problem of the Feminine Image in Science Fiction." Mosaic Volume 13, Parts 3-4 (1980): pages 15-27.

Morehouse, Lyda. "Sherri S. Tepper." Science Fiction Chronicle v.20, n.3 (n.200): pp. 8, 38-39 (Dec. 1998 / Jan. 1999).

Morgan, Chris.

"Judith Merril, 1923- ." in Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Earth Nineteenth Century to the Present Day edited by Everett Franklin Bleiler. (New York: Scribner's, 1982): pp. 433-439.

Morgan, Ellen.

"The Feminist Novel of Androgynous Fantasy" Frontiers v. 2, no. 3 (1977).

Morse, Geraldine.

"Reviews." Galileo: Magazine of Science and Fiction, v. 9 (1978): p. 86. Review of Survivor by Octavia Butler.

Moskowitz, Sam.

"When Women Rule" in If: Science Fiction, August 1967; reprinted in When Women Rule (New York: Walker, 1972). [Critical review essay; reprinted it is preface for anthology of science fiction on the theme of matriarchies.]

Moylan, Tom.

Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination. New York & London: Methuen, 1986. (Studies of Joanna Russ's The Female Man; Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed; Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time; and Samuel Delany's Triton.)

Mulford, Wendy.

This Narrow Place: Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland: Life, Letters, and Politics, 1930-51 (London: Pandora, 1988)

Murphy, Pat.

"Illusion and Expectation: The Baking of an SF Award." 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. 342-350. On the history of the Tiptree Award.

Murphy, Patrick D.

--. "Feminism Faces the Fantastic." Women's Studies v. 14 no. 2 (1987) pages 81-90.
--. "'Gender Politics': Epithet or Accolade? Or, Feminist SF and the Case of Joanna Russ." New York Review of Science Fiction v. 1, no. 10 (#10) (1989): pp. 1-5.
--. "Reducing the Dystopian Distance: Pseudo-Documentary Framing in Near-Future Fiction." Science Fiction Studies v 17 (1990) pp 25-40. (on Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale).
--. "Suicide, Murder, Culture, and Catastrophe: Joanna Russ's We Who Are About To...." State of the Fantastic: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Fantastic Literature and Film, editor Nicholas Ruddick. (series: Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy: v. 50) (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992: pp. 121-131.

Muscio, Inga M.

"Mind of Her Mind: The Genius of Octavia Butler." Bitch Magazine, No. 15, Winter 2001, p. 36. (Part of Elyce Rae Helford's article in the same issue.)

Mussell, Kay.

Women's Gothic and Romantic Fiction: A Reference Guide (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1981).

Myers, Victoria.

"Conversational Technique in Ursula Le Guin: A Speech-Act Analysis." Science Fiction Studies v. 10 (Nov. 1983): pp. 306-316.

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Nelson, Anna Lorien and John S. Nelson.

"Institutions in Feminist and Republican Science Fiction" Legal Studies Forum Volume 22, Number 4 (1988)
http://www.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/lsf/nelson22.htm

Nester, Holle.

Shadow of the Past: Darstellung und Funktion der geschichtlichen Sekundearwelten in J.R.R. Tokien's "The Lord of the Rings", Ursula K. Le Guin's "Earthsea-Tetralogy" und Patricia McKill's "Riddle-Master-Trilogy" (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier: ISBN 388476084X; 297 pp.)

Nestvold, Ruth & Jay Lake.

"Who Needs Feminist Science Fiction?" The Internet Review of Science Fiction (IROSF), v.3, n.5 (June, 2006).

Newman, Beth.

"Narratives of Seduction and the Seductions of Narrative: The Frame Structure of Frankenstein." ELH, v. 53, no. 1 (Spring 1986): pp. 141-163.

Newson, A.

"Review of Octavia Butler's Dawn and Adulthood Rites." Black American Literature Forum Volume 23, Number 2 (1989): pages 389-96.

Ney, Sharon, and Elaine Sciog-Lazarov.

"The Construction of Feminine Identity in 'Babylon 5'" in Fantasy Girls: Gender in the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television, edited by Elyse Rae Helford (Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MA, and Oxford, UK: 2000)

Nicholls, Stan.

"Letting Go of the Here and Now: Tanith Lee Interview," Fear, Oct. 1989. Reprinted as "Tanith Lee Has an Art Deco Radio Box in Her Head," in Wordsmiths of Wonder: Fifty Interviews with Writers of the Fantastic, edited by Nicholls, London: Orbit, 1993.

Nischik, Reingard M.

"Back to the Future: Margaret Atwood's Anti-Utopian Vision in The Handmaid's Tale." Englisch Amerikanische Studien v 1 (March 1987) pp 139-148.

Nixon, Nicola.

--. "Cyberpunk: Preparing the Ground for Revolution or Keeping the Boys Satisfied?" Science Fiction Studies Volume 19, Part 2?3? (1992): pages 219-235.
--. "The Rebel's Progress." Science Fiction Studies, v. 21, no. 3 (1994): pp. 421-425.

Norton, Andre.

"Interview," in Speaking of Science Fiction: The Paul Walker Interviews, edited by Paul Walker. Oradell, NJ: LUNA Publications, 1978: pp. 264-270.

Notkin, Debbie, and Susan Wood.

"A Reader's Guide." Room of One's Own v. 6, nos. 1-2 (1981), pages 124-139.

Nudelman, Rafail.

"An Approach to the Structure of Le Guin's SF," Science-Fiction Studies, v. 2, no. 3 (Nov. 1975): pp. 210-220.

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Oates, Joyce Carol.

"Frankenstein's Fallen Angel." Critical Inquiry, v. 10, no. 3 (March 1984): pp. 543-555.

O'Flinn, Paul.

"Production and Reproduction: The Case of Frankenstein." Literature and History, v. 9, no. 2 (Autumn 1983): pp. 194-213; republished in Popular Fictions, ed. Peter Humm, Paul Stigant, and Peter Widdowson. New York: Methuen, 1986.

Olander, Joseph D, and Martin Harry Greenberg, editors.

Ursula K. Le Guin. New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1979.

Orenstein, Catherine.

Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale. (Basic Books: 2002; ISBN 0465041256)

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Palumbo, Donald, ed.

Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.
--, editor. Eros in the Mind's Eye: Sexuality and the Fantastic in Art and Film (Greenwood Press: 1986)
--. "The Mechanical Egg: Sexual Mechanisms and Metaphors in SF Films" in The Mechanical God, edited by Dunn & Erlich (Greenwood Press).

Palwick, Susan.

"Recapitulating Phylogeny: A Roundabout Review of In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction by Sarah Lefanu." New York Review of Science Fiction v. 1, no. 10 (#10) (June 1989), pp. 1, 8-9.

Parkin-Speer, Diane.

"Almost a Feminist: Robert A. Heinlein," Extrapolation, v. 36, no. 2 (1995): pp. 113-125.

Parrinder, P.

--. "The Alien Encounter: Or, Ms. Brown and Mrs. Le Guin." Science Fiction Studies Volume 3, Part 1. (1976). Reprinted in P. Parrinder (ed.) SF: A Critical Guide: London: Longman, 1979: pages 148-161.
--. "Descents into Hell: The Later Novels of Doris Lessing." Critical Quarterly 22 (1980): pages 7-19.

Patai, Daphne.

--. "Introduction" in Katherine Burdekin's Swastika Night 1985 edition, Oxford University Press, Lawrence & Wishart, London. iii-xv.
--. "British and American Utopias by Women (1836-1979): Part I" in Alternative Futures (Spring / Summer 1981, pp. 184-206; a special Women's Issue)
--. "Orwell's Despair, Burdekin's Hope: Gender and Power in Dystopia." Women's Studies International Forum v. 7, no. 2, pp. 85-95.
--. "Utopia for Whom?" Aphra Volume 5 (Summer, 1974): pages 2-16.
--, editor. Looking Backward: 1988-1888. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.

Patraka, Vivian, and Louise A. Tilly, editors.

Feminist Re-Visions: What Has Been and Might Be. Ann Arbor: Women's Studies Program, University of Michigan, 1983.

Pattison, Jim, and Paul A. Soanes.

Daughter of the Night: An Annotated Tanith Lee Bibliography. http://www3.sympatica.ca/jim.pattison/

Paulsen, I.-L.

"Can Women Fly?: Vonda McIntyre's Dreamsnake and Sally Gearhart's The Wanderground." Women's Studies International Forum Volume 7, Number 2 (1984): pages 103-110.

Pausacker, Jenny.

"Beyond the Invisible Barrier: Australian Women Writing Young Adult SF and Fantasy in 1996"

Pearson, Carol.

--. "Women's Fantasies and Feminist Utopias." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 2, Number 3. (Fall 1977): pages 50-61.
--. "Toward a New Language, Consciousness and Political Theory: The Utopian Novels of Dorothy Bryant, Mary Staton, and Marge Piercy," MLA Convention, San Francisco, December, 1979. Also: Heresies v. 4 n. 1 (13), (1981), pages 84-87.
--. "Coming Home: Four Feminist Utopias and Patriarchal Experience" in Marleen S. Barr, editor, Future Females: A Critical Anthology (Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1981), pages 63-70. (Revision of "Women's Fantasies and Feminist Utopias," Frontiers 1977 Bibliography I.1500)

Pearson, Jacqueline.

"Where No Man Has Gone Before: Sexual Politics and Women's Science Fiction" in Philip John Davies, editor, Science Fiction, Social Conflict and War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990), pages 8-25.

Pearson, Wendy.

"Alien Cryptographies: The View from Queer." in Science Fiction Studies (March 1999 - special issue on sf & queer theory) Winner of SFRA's Pioneer Award for 1999 (10th annual award; awarded for "the one critical article in a year that does the most to advance SF criticism").
--. "After the Homo(Sexual): A Queer Analysis of Anti-Sexuality in Sheri S. Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country." Science-Fiction Studies v.23, n.2 (#69): pp. 199-226 (July 1996).

Peel, Ellen (Susan).

--. "Utopian Feminism, Skeptical Feminism and Narrative Energy," in Feminism, Utopia and Narrative, edited by Libby Falk Jones & Sarah Webster Goodwin, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990: pp. 34-49.
--. "Reading Piebald Patterns in Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness." 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. 29-40.
--. Politics, Persuasion, and Pragmatism: A Rhetoric of Feminist Utopian Fiction (Ohio State Univ. Pr.: 2002; ISBN 0814209106) (272pp.)

Pegg, Barry.

"Down to Earth: Terrain, Territory, and the Language of Realism in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed." Michigan Academician XXVII Number 4 (August 1995), pages 481-492.

Pei, Lowry.

"Poor Singletons: Definitions of Humanity in the Stories of James Tiptree, Jr." Science-Fiction Studies v. 6 (1979): pp. 271-280.

Penley, Constance, Elisabeth Lyon, Lynn Spiegel, and Janet Bergstrom, editors.

--. Close Encounters: Film, Feminism, and Science Fiction . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.

Peplow, Michael W.

"Meet Samuel R. Delany, Black Science Fiction Writer," Crisis, April 1979.

Peplow, Michael W., and Robert S. Bravard.

Samuel R. Delany: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography, 1962-1979 (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980).

Peppers, Cathy.

"Dialogic Origins and Alien Identities in Butler's Xenogenesis." Science-Fiction Studies Volume 22, Part 1, Number 65. (March 1995): pages 47 - 62.

Perrakis, Phyllis Sternberg.

"The Marriage of Inner and Outer Space in Doris Lessing's Shikasta." Science Fiction Studies v. 17 (1990) pp. 221-238.
--. Spiritual Explorations in the Works of Doris Lessing (Greenwood Press, 1999) (Contributions to the Study of SF and Fantasy, no. 81). Includes:
Seeing Differently: "The Spiritual Immersed within the Everyday" - Ages of Anxiety: The Diaries of Jane Somers (Virginia Tiger) - Pursuing Difference in The Marriages between Zones Three, Four and Five (Eral G. Ingersol) - Approaching the Apocalypse: Individual and Cultural Collapse and the Seeds of New Vision - Androgyny or Catastrophe: Doris Lessing's Vision in the Early 70s (Nancy Topping Bazin) - Cabalistic Gardens: Lessing's Memoirs of a Survivor (Debrah Raschke) - White Settlers in the Heart of Empire: Visionary Power in Lessing's The Four-Gated City (Cherry Clayton) - Doris Lessing's Prophetic Voice in Shikasta: Cassandra or Sybil ? (Jeannette Weber) - Beyond the Binary: "It Isn't Either or..It's and, and, and, and" - The Whirlpool and the Fountain: Inner Growth and Love, Again (Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis) - "A Question of Wholes": Spiritual Intersecting, Universal Re-Visions in the Work of Doris Lessing (Melanie Hunter & Darby McIntosh) - Considering the Stars: The Expanding Universe of Doris Lessing's Work (Josna E. Rege)

Peyser, Thomas Galt.

"Reproducing Utopia: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Herland." Studies in American Fiction v. 20 (Spring 1992) pages 1-16.

Pfaelzer, Jean.

--."Feminism as Ideology: Women in American Utopias, 1880 - 1900." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, 27 December 1979.
--. "Women in American Utopias, 1880-1900: The Impact of Political Theories on Literary Forms." unpublished manuscript, 1979.
--. "A State of One's Own: Feminism as Ideology in American Utopias, 1880-1915." Extrapolation, v. 24, no. 4 (Winter 1983): pp. 311-328.
--. "The Changing of the Avant-Garde: The Feminist Utopia." Science Fiction Studies Volume 15 number 3 (November 1988): pages 282-294.

Phillips, Julie.

--. "Feminist Sci-Fi: A Brave New World." Ms. Volume 5, Number 3. (November / December 1994): pages 70-73.
--. "Mars Needs women: The True Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr." VLS Sept. 1996: pp. 18-20.

Piercy, Marge.

--. "Active in Time and History" in Zinsser, William, editor, Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. (ISBN 0-395-51426-6; pbk 0-395-51427-4)
--. Foreword to Marleen S. Barr's Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond (1993).

Pinedo, Isabel Cristina.

Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997; ISBN 0791434427

Plank, Robert.

"Ursula K. Le Guin and the Decline of Romantic Love," Science-Fiction Studies, v. 3, no. 1 (March 1976): pp. 36-43.

Platt, Charles.

--. "Profile: James Tiptree, Jr." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1983: pp. 26-49.
--. "James Tiptree, Jr." in Dream Makers, Volume II: The Uncommon Men and Women Who Write Science Fiction: Interviews by Charles Platt. New York: Berkley Books, 1983: pp. 257-272.
--. "Joan D. Vinge," in Dream Makers, Volume II, New York: Berkley Books, 1983, pp. 211-217. Discusses The Snow Queen.

Podojil, Catherine.

"Sisters, Daughters, and Aliens." Critical Encounters: Writers and Themes in Science Fiction, Dick Riley, editor. New York: Ungar, 1978: pp. 70-86.

Pohl-Weary, Emily.

Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril (Between the Lines, 2002) (biography of Judith Merril)
Editor. Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks (Sumach Press) (includes "short fiction, cultural analysis, comics & original artwork"; gwbb website)

Poovey, Mary.

"'My Hideous Progeny': The Lady and the Monster," in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, edited by Harold Bloom, New York: Chelsea House, 1987, Modern Critical Interpretations Series. pp. 81-106.

Porter, David L.

"The Politics of Le Guin's Opus," Science-Fiction Studies, v. 2, no. 3 (#7) (Nov. 1975): pp. 243-248.

Pred, Elenore G.

"Tales of Gay Tomorrow: Elizabeth Lynn," The Advocate (San Mateo, Cal.), no. 253 (1978-11-1).

Price, Beverly.

"Sheri S. Tepper and Feminism's Future" in Mythlore: a Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, General Fantasy & Mythic Studies. v. 18, n.2 (#68): pp. 41-44 (Spring 1992).

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Quilter, Laura.

Index to Female Writers in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopia: 18th Century to the Present. (http://www.feministsf.org/femsf/authors/, 1995 - present).
--. "A Short History of the Backlash Against Feminism in SF/F." Ver. 1, April 2002. Available at: http://www.feministsf.org/femsf/crit/texts/quilter.backlash.html