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- Rabkin, Eric S.
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--. "Determinism, Free Will and Point of View in Le Guin's The
Left Hand of Darkness," Extrapolation v. 20, no. 1 (Spring
1979): pp. 5-19.
--. "Science Fiction Women Before Liberation" in Future
Females: A Critical Anthology edited by Marleen S. Barr (Bowling Green
State University Popular Press: 1981) pp. 9-25.
- Raley, William g., editor.
After Hours,
v. 7, no. 1 (No. 25) (Winter 1995): pp. 42-43.
- Rao, Eleanora.
- Strategies for Identity: The Fiction of Margaret
Atwood. New York: Peter Lang, 1993.
- Read, Jacinda.
- The New Avengers: Feminism, Femininity and the Rape-Revenge
Cycle
- Remington, Thomas.
Extrapolation v. 18-19, n. 1
(Dec. 1976): pp. 28-41.
- Renault, Gregory.
- "Speculative Porn: Aesthetic Form in Samuel
R. Delany's The Tides of Lust", Extrapolation, v. 24, no. 2
(Summer 1983): pp. 116-129.
- Rhodes, Jewel P.
- "Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of
Darkness: Androgyny and the Feminist Utopian vision." Women and
Utopia. Ed. Marleen Barr and Nicholas O. Smith. New York: University
Press of America, 1983.
- Rigney, Barbara Hill.
- Madness and Sexual Politics in the
Feminist Novel: Studies in Bronte, Woolf, Lessing, and Atwood
Madison: U of Wisconsin Press, 1978.
- Roberts, Maria Mulvey.
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--. "The Male Scientist, Man-Midwife, and Female Monster:
Appropriation and Transmutation in Frankenstein, in A Question
of Identity: Women, Science, and Literature, edited by Marina
Benjamin, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1993: pp. 59-73.
- Roberts, Robin Ann.
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--. A New Species: The Female Tradition in Science Fiction from
Mary Shelley to Doris Lessing. Dissertation, 1985.
--. "The Paradigm of Frankenstein: Reading Canopus in
Argos in the Context of Science Fiction by Women,"
Extrapolation, v. 25, no. 1 (Spring 1985): pp. 16-23.
--. "The Female Alien: Pulp Science Fiction's Legacy to
Feminists," Journal of Popular Culture, v. 21 (1987): pp.
33-52.
--. "Post-Modernism and Feminist Science Fiction." Science
Fiction Studies Volume 17, Part 2 (July 1990): pages 136-152.
--. "Matthew Arnold's 'Dover Beach,' Gender, and Science Fiction."
Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Kent, OH).
v 33. n. 3 (Fall 1992) pages 245-257.
--. A New Species: Gender and Science in Science Fiction.
(Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1993).
--. "It's Still Science Fiction: Strategies of Feminist Science
Fiction Criticism," Extrapolation, v. 36, no. 3 (1995): pp.
184-197.
--. Anne McCaffrey: A Critical Companion. (Critical
Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers Series) (Greenwood, 1996)
--. Sexual Generations: "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and
Gender. University of Illinois Press (?).
- Robinson, Lillian S.
- "Killing Patriarchy: Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
the Murder Mystery and Post-Feminist Propaganda." Tulsa Studies in
Women's Literature v. 10 (Fall 1991), pages 273-285.
- Rohrlich, Ruby, and Elaine Baruch, editors.
- Women in Search of
Utopias: Mavericks and Mythmakers. New York: Schocken Books, 1984.
Includes essays by Ruby Rohrlick, Elaine Hoffman Baruch, Diane LeBow,
Geraldine Day McNelly, France Burke, Marilyn Bensman, June Jordan, Jill
Harsin, Marge Piercy, A. Harriette Andreadis, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Martha
A. Ackelsberg, Audre Lorde, Ruth Elizabeth Wangerin, Ntozake Shange,
Arlene Sheer, Batya Weinbaum, Jan Zimmerman, Frances Whyatt, Barrie
Thorne, Cheris Kramarae, Nancy Henley, H. Lee Gershuny, Susan H. Lees,
Tucker Farley, Dinnah Pladott, Eleanor Arnason, Carol S. Pearson, Lee
Cullen Khanna, Mischa Adams, Ann Sutherland Harris, Sally Miller Gearhart,
and Eve Merriam.
- Ronzeaud, Pierre.
- "La femme dans le roman utopique de la fin du
XVIIe siècle." in Onze études sur l'image
de la femme dans la littérature française du septième
siècle, edited by Wolfgang Leiner (Paris: Jean-Michel Place,
1978): pp. 103-130.
- Rooke, Constance.
- "Interpreting The Handmaid's Tale:
Offred's Name and 'The Arnolfini Marriage'." Fear of the Open Heart
(1989) pp 175-196.
- Rose, Hilary.
- "Laboratory for Dreams (Feminist Science Fiction)."
New Statesman Volume 114 (November 6, 1987), pages 22-23.
- Rosenthal, Rae.
- "Gaskell's Feminist Utopia: The Cranfordians and
the Reign of Goodwill" in Jane L. Donawerth and Carol A. Kolmerten,
editors, Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of
Difference. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994. pages
73-92.
- Rosinsky, Natalie M.
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--. "A Female Man? The 'Medusan' Humor of Joanna Russ."
Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction. v. 23 no. 1 (1982):
pp. 31-36.
--. Feminist Futures: Contemporary Women's Speculative
Fiction. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1984. Studies in
Speculative Fiction No. 1.
- Rothstein, Mervyn.
- "No Balm in Gilead for Margaret Atwood." New
York Times 12 February 1986: C11.
- Rowe, Karen.
- "Feminism and Fairy Tales." Women's Studies 6 (1979):
pages 237-57. Reprinted in Jack
Zipes' anthology Don't Bet on the
Prince (1987).
"The Female Voice in Folklore and Fairy Tales"
- Rowe, Margaret Moan.
- Doris Lessing. St. Martin's Press,
1994.
- Rubenstein, Marc A.
- "'My Accursed Origin': The Search for the
Mother in Frankenstein." Studies in Romanticism Volume 15,
Number 2 (Spring?/Sept.? 1976): pages 165-194.
- Rubenstein, Roberta.
- "Nature and Nurture in Dystopia: The
Handmaid's Tale" in Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms ed. by
Kathryn Van Spanckeren and Jan Garden Castro, 1988, pp. 101-112.
--. The Novelistic Vision of Doris Lessing. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1979.
--. "Pandora's Box and Female Survival: Margaret Atwood's
Bodily Harm." Journal of Canadian Studies v. 20 (Spring
1985), p. 120-135.
- Russ, Gary Allan.
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"Algol Profile: Andre Norton." Algol, 14 (Summer /
Fall 1977): pp. 15-17.
- Russ, Joanna.
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--. "Creating Positive Images of Women: A Writer's
Perspective," Women Writer's Conference, Cornell University, n.d.
--. "Amor Vincit Foeminam: The Battle of the Sexes in
Science Fiction." In Science Fiction Studies, v. 7, no. 1 (March
1980): pp. 2-15; Indiana University Press, 1972 (1978?). Reprinted in:
To Write Like a Woman.
--. "The Image of Women in Science Fiction." In Cornillon, Susan
Koppelman (ed): Images of Women in Fiction: Feminist Perspectives.
Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1972.
--. "What Can a Heroine Do? Or, Why Women Can't Write" In
Cornillon, Susan Koppelman (ed): Images of Women in Fiction: Feminist
Perspectives. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular
Press, 1972.
--. "On Setting" in Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader
edited by Robin Scott Wilson (New American Library: New York, 1973), pp.
149-154.
--. "Speculations: The Subjunctivity of Science Fiction."
Extrapolation Volume 15, Number 1 (December 1973): pages 51-59.
--. "The Image of Women in Science Fiction." Red Clay
Reader, 1971; reprinted in Images of Women in Fiction: Feminist
Perspectives, edited by Susan Koppelman Cornillon, Bowling Green,
Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1972: pp. 79-94;
reprinted in Vertex Volume 1, Number 6 (February 1974), pages
53-57.
--. Introduction to Mary Shelley's Tales and Stories
(Boston: Gregg Press, 1975).
--. "Reflections on Science Fiction: An Interview with Joanna
Russ." Quest, v. 2, no. 1 (Summer 1975): pp. 40-49.
--. "Reflections on Science Fiction: An Interview." Quest: A
Feminist Quarterly Volume 2, Number 1 (Summer 1975): pages 40-49.
--. "Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction." Science Fiction
Studies Volume 2, Part 2, Number 6 (July 1975): pages 112-119.
--. "Outta Space: Women Write Science Fiction," Ms.,
Jan. 1976: pp. 109-111.
--. "SF and Technology as Mystification." Science Fiction
Studies Volume 5, Part 3, Number 16 (November 1978): pages 250-60.
--, and Linda Leith. "Women in SF: Three Letters." Science
Fiction Studies, v. 7, no. 2 (1980): pp. 232-236.
--. "Recent Feminist Utopias" in Marleen S. Barr, editor,
Future Females: A Critical Anthology (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling
Green State University Popular Press: 1981), pp. 71-85.
--. How to Suppress Women's Writing. Austin: University of
Texas Press, 1983; London: The Women's Press, 1993.
--. Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans, and Perverts:
Feminist Essays. Trumansberg, NY: Crossing Press, 1985.
--. To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science
Fiction. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press,
1995). Contains introduction by Sarah Lefanu; Author's introduction. Part
One: 1. Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction; 2. Speculations: The
Subjunctivity of Science Fiction; 3. SF and Technology as Mystification;
4. Amor Vincit Foeminam: The Battle of the Sexes in Science
Fiction; 5. On the Fascination of Horror Stories, Including Lovecraft's;
6. A Boy and His Dog: The Final Solution. Part Two: 7. What
Can a Heroine Do? or Why Women Can't Write; 8. Somebody's Trying to Kill
Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic; 9. On Mary
Wallstonecraft Shelley; 10. Recent Feminist Utopias; 11. To Write "Like a
Woman": Transformations of Identity in the Work of Willa Cather; 12. On
"The Yellow Wallpaper"; 13. Is "Smashing" Erotic?; 14. Letter to Susan
Kppelman. Index.
- Russell, Elizabeth.
- "The Loss of the Feminine Principle in
Charlotte Haldane's Man's World and Katherine Burdekin's
Swastika Night" in Lucie Armitt, editor, Where No Man Has Gone
Before: Women and Science Fiction. London: Routledge, 1991. pages
15-28.
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- Sage, Lorna.
- Doris Lessing. London: Methuen, 1983.
- Sallis, James, ed.
- Ash of Stars: On the Writing of Samuel R. Delany.
(1996).
- Salmonson, Jessica Amanda.
-
--. "The Golden Age of Sexism." Windhaven Number 6.
Atalanta Press, 1979.
--. "A Non-Traveller Spends a Month Away from Home" 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. 140-146. A comparison of various SF
conventions, including Wiscon.
- Salvaggio, Ruth.
-
--. "Octavia Butler and the Black Science Fiction Heroine."
Black American Literature Forum. Volume 18, Number 2 (1984): pages
78-81. Four Butler novels.
--, Marleen Barr, and Richard Law. Suzy McKee Charnas: Octavia
Butler: Joan D. Vinge. Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont, 1986.
- Sanders, Scott.
- "Woman as Nature in Science Fiction" in Future
Females: A Critical Anthology edited by Marleen S. Barr (Bowling
Green State University Popular Press: 1981) pp. 42-59.
- Sargent, Lyman Tower.
-
--. "Women in Utopia." Comparative Literature
Studies Volume 10, Number 4. (December 1973): pages 302-16.
--. "An Ambiguous Legacy: The Role and Position of Women
in the English Eutopia" in Future Females: A Critical Anthology
edited by Marlene S. Barr (Bowling Green State University Popular Press:
1981) pp. 88-99; originally published in Extrapolation (May 1975,
volume 16).
- Sargent, Pamela.
-
--. "Women in Science Fiction." Introduction to Pamela Sargent,
editor, Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Stories By Women About
Women. New York: Vintage Books, 1974. Pages xiii - lxiv.
--. "Women in Science Fiction," Futures, Oct. 1975: pp.
433-441.
--. "Introduction" in More Women of Wonder: Science Fiction
Novelettes By Women About Women. New York: Vintage Books, 1976. Pages
xi - liii.
--. "Introduction" in The New Women of Wonder: Recent Science
Fiction Stories By Women About Women. New York: Vintage Books, 1977.
Pages xiii - xxxiv.
--. Firebrands: The Heroines of Science Fiction and Fantasy
(illustrated) (Thunders Mouth: 1998) (ISBN 1-56025-164-6)
- Sauble-Otto, Lorie.
- Writing in Subversive Space: Language and the Body in
Feminist Science Fiction in French and English. Dissertation, 2001.
- Saunders, Charles R.
- "Why Blacks Should Read (and Write) Science Fiction" (2000) [in Dark
Matter ed. by Sheree R. Thomas (2000)]
- Sauter-Bailliet, Theresia.
- "Joanna Russ, The Female Man
(1975)" in Hartmut Heuermann, editor, Der Science-Fiction-Roman in der
Angloamerikanischen Literatur: Interpretationen (Düsseldorf:
Bagel, 1986), pages 355-375.
- Saxton, Josephine.
- "Goodbye to All That ..." in Lucie Armitt,
editor, Where No Man Has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction.
London: Routledge, 1991.
- Saxton, Ruth.
- "Lessing in California, April 5-10." Doris
Lessing Newsletter 8 (Fall 1984): 7.
- Scharnhorst, Gary.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Bibliography (1985).
- Scheja, Christel.
- "Frauen und Fantasy" Fantasia
38/39 (1988)
http://www.edfc.de/afa038a.htm
- Schlobin, Roger C.
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--. Andre Norton: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography
(Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980)
--. "The Future Females" in Future Females: A Critical
Anthology edited by Marlene S. Barr (Bowling Green State University
Popular Press: 1981), pp. 179-189.
--. another version of the above in Janice Bogstad's New
Moon
--. another version of the above in Mary T. Brizzi's
Extrapolation
--. "Andre Norton: Humanity Amid the Hardware." The Feminine
Eye. New York: Ungar, 1982: pp. 25-31.
--. "Farsighted Females: A Selective Checklist of Modern Women
Writers of Science Fiction Through 1980," Extrapolation, v. 23,
no. 1 (1982): pp. 91-107.
--. Urania's Daughters: A Checklist of Women Science Fiction
Writers, 1692-1982. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1983.
(Starmont Reference Guide No. 1: ISSN 0738-0127; ISBN 0-916732-57-6;
0-916732-56-8 (pbk)).
-- and Irene R. Harrison, eds. Andre Norton: A Primary and
Secondary Bibliography. Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 1994.
- Schnorrenberg, Barbara Brandon.
-
"A Paradise Like Eve's: Three Eighteenth Century English Female
Utopias," Women's Studies, v. 9 (1982): pp. 263-273.
- Schochet, Victoria and John Silbersack, editors.
-
"Elizabeth A. Lynn: An Interview" in The Berkley Showcase
(New York: Berkley, 1981): pp. 193-194.
- Scholes, Robert.
-
--. "The Good Witch of the West," in Structural Fabulation:
Essay on Fiction of the Future. University of Notre Dame Ward-Phillips
Lectures in English Language and Literature, v. 7. Notre Dame and London:
University of Notre Dame Press, 1975.
--, and Eric S. Rabkin. Science Fiction: History, Science,
Vision. London: Oxford University Press, 1977. [some discussion of Le
Guin.]
--. "A Footnote to Russ's 'Recent Feminist Utopias'" in Marleen S.
Barr, editor, Future Females: A Critical Anthology (Bowling Green:
Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1981), pages 86-87.
--. The Left Hand of Difference: Le Guin & Derrida (1983,
Graduate School of Tulane University, New Orleans, LA)
- Schuyler, William M., Jr.
- "Sexes, Genders, and Discrimination" in
Donald Palumbo, editor, Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic
Literature. New York: Greenwood, 1986. pages 45-60.
- Schwartz, Lucy McCallum.
- "Christiane Rochefort: Garden of
Pleasure." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language
Association, San Francisco, 27 December 1979.
- Schweikart, Patrocinio.
- "What If...: Science and Technology in
Feminist Utopias." In Machina Ex Dea: Feminist Perspectives on
Technology, edited by Joan A. Rothschild, 198-211. New York: Pergamon,
1983.
- Science Fiction Studies
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--. Special Issue, entitled "The Science Fiction of Ursula K. Le
Guin." Volume 2, Part 3. Number 7. (November 1975).
--. Special Issue, "Science Fiction by Women" (July 1990). Studies
Le Guin, Russ, Tiptree, Lessing, etc.
--. Special Issue on SF & Queer Theory (March 1999).
- Science Fiction Research Association.
- Science Fiction Research Association Meeting, Illinois, 1994.
This meeting had a number of papers dedicated to feminist science fiction,
and included Octavia Butler and Sheri Tepper among other feminist sf
writers.
- Science Fiction Studies
- Special Issue, entitled "Science Fiction on Women -- Science
Fiction by Women." Volume 7, Part 1. Number 20. (March 1980).
--. Science-Fiction Studies: Selected Articles on Science
Fiction, 1973-1975 (Gregg Press: ISBN 083982338X; 304 pp.) Includes
coverage of Ursula K. Le Guin and Philip K. Dick.
- Seal, Julie Luedtke.
- "James Tiptree, Jr.: Fostering the Future,
Not Condemning It." Extrapolation v. 31, no. 1 (Spring 1990): pp.
73-82.
- See, Lisa.
- "PW Interviews: O. E. Butler." Publishers Weekly
Volume 240 (December 13, 1993), pages 50-51.
- Segal, Howard P.
- "The Feminist Technological Utopia: Mary E.
Bradley Lane's Mizora (1890)." Alternative Futures 4 (Spring
/ Summer 1981): pages 67-72.
- Selinger, Bernard.
- Le Guin and Identity in Contemporary Fiction (1988)
- Sellers, Susan.
- Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women's Fiction (2004) Palgrave Macmillan; ISBN 0333720156.
- SF Lovers List,
SF and Fantasy Alternate Sexuality Listing
- Shaw, Debra Benita.
- Women, Science, and Fiction: The
Frankenstein Inheritance (Wiltshire, UK: Palgrave, 2000); 248 pp. hbk;
ISBN 0333741587. Reviews sf written by women from 1914-1968.
Includes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Charlotte Perkins Gilman's
Herland; Burdekin's Swastika Night; Margaret St. Clair;
Donna Haraway; Amazons, matriarchal societies & feminist separatism;
cyborgs ....
- Sheen, Erica.
-
"'I'm not in the business; I am the business': Women
at Work in Hollywood Science Fiction," in Lucie Armitt, editor, Where
No Man Has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction. London: Routledge,
1991.
- Sheldon, Alice.
see also Tiptree, James, Jr. [pseudonym]
- "A Woman Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy," in Women of
Vision, edited by Denise Du Pont, New York: St. Martin's Press,
1988: pp. 43-58.
- Shelton, Robert.
- "The Social Text as Body: Images of Health and
Disease in Three Recent Feminist Utopias." Literature and Medicine
v. 12 n. 2 (Fall 1993) pages 161-177.
- Sherzer, Dina.
- "Christiane Rochefort: Archaos, ou le jardin
etincelant." French Review Volume 47, Number 4 (March 1974):
pages 837-38.
- Shinn, Thelma J. (Dina Sherzer?)
-
--. "Worlds of Words and Swords: Suzette Haden Elgin and Joanna
Russ at Work." Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction
and Fantasy, ed. Jane B. Weedman. Lubock: Texas Tech Press, 1985: pp.
207-222.
--. "The Wise Witches: Black Women Mentors in the Fiction of
Octavia Butler," in Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary
Tradition, edited by Marjorie Pryse and Hortense J. Spillers,
Bloomington, Indiana University Press: 1985: pp. 203-215.
--. Worlds Within Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic
Literature by Women. New York: Greenwood, 1986. (Contributions to the
Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy Ser. No. 22)
- Shippey, T. A.
-
"The Magic Art and the Evolution of Words: Ursula Le Guin's
Earthsea Trilogy," Mosaic v. 10, no. 2 (Winter 1977): pp. 147-163.
- Shwartz, Susan M.
- "Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ethic of Freedom" in
The Feminine Eye, edited by Tom Staicar, (Ungar: New York, 1982)
pp. 73-88.
- Short, Sue
- Misfit Sisters: Screen Horror as Female Rites of Passage
- Siegel, Mark.
-
--. "Double-Souled Man: Immortality and Transcendence in the
Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr." in Death and the Serpent: Immortality
in Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Carl B. Yoke & Donald M.
Hassler, Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985 (pp. 163-173).
--. James Tiptree, Jr. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House,
1985. (Starmont Reader's Guide 22.)
--. "Love Was the Plan, the Plan Was ...: A True Story About James
Tiptree, Jr." Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction [London,
England], v. 44 (Winter 1988/1989): pp. 5-13.
- Silhol, Lea.
-
--. "Venin, Velours, Vitrail: l'ecriture vampirique chez Storm
Constantine, Tanith Lee, Freda Warrington" ["Venom, Velvet, Stained Glass:
The Literature of the Vampire in Storm Constantine, Tanith Lee, and Freda
Warrington] in Visages du Vampire, edited by Barbara Sadoul, Paris:
Dervy, 1999.
--. "Elle est trois: une lecture symbolique du vampirisme chez
Tanith Lee, Freda Warrington et Storm Constantine" in
Vampire: Portraits d'une Ombre, edited by Lea Silhol, Montpellier,
France: Editions de l'Oxymore, 1999.
--. "Tanith Lee, le Conte et son Double," Spirale, no. 179,
July-August 2001.
- Silverberg, Robert.
- "Who Is Tiptree, What Is He?" Introduction to Tiptree's
collection, Warm Worlds and Otherwise. New York: Ballantine, 1975.
- Slethaug, Gordon E.
- "The Paradoxical Double in Le Guin's A
Wizard of Earthsea." Extrapolation v. 27 (Winter 1986) pages
326-333.
- Slonczewski, Joan.
-
--. "Science
in Science Fiction: Making It Work"
http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~dmswitze/slonczewski/writer.html
--. "The Handmaid's Tale." Kenyon Review v. ns8 (1986), pp.
120-4.
- Slusser, George.
-
--. The Farthest Shores of Ursula K. Le Guin. The Milford Series: Popular
Writers of Today, v. 3. San Bernardino, CA.: The Borgo Press, 1976.
--. "Metamorphoses of the Dragon." in Aliens: The Anthropology
of Science Fiction, edited by Slusser and Rabkin (1987): pp. 43-66.
Discusses dragons in sf, including specifically Le Guin's Earthsea
dragons.
--. "Le Guin and the Future of Science Fiction Criticism."
Science Fiction Studies v. 18 (March 1991), pages 110-115.
- Slusser, George; Paul Alkon; et al.
- Transformations of Utopia:
Changing Views of the Perfect Society, New York, AMS Press, 342 pages.
Recueil de 27 essais traitant de l’utopie dont certains en français. Avec,
entre autres, Elisabeth Vonarburg, Eric S. Rabkin, James Gunn. Préface de
Roger Gaillard et intro par George Slusser.
- Smith, Jeanette C.
-
"The Heroine Within: Psychological Archetypes in Tanith Lee's A
Heroine of the World", Extrapolation, v. 39, no. 1
(1998): pp. 52-56.
- Smith, Jeff.
-
--. "If You Can't Laugh At It, What Good Is It?" Phantasmacom
6, June 1971. Interview with James Tiptree, Jr., conducted through the
mail. (First published interview?)
--, editor. "Symposium: Women in Science Fiction," Khatru,
nos. 3 & 4, Nov. 1975. 11 professional writer-participants in 1st edition.
[2d edition, with additional edits by Jeanne Gomoll, 1993.]
--. "The Short, Happy Life of James Tiptree, Jr." Khatru
no. 7 (Feb. 1978): pp. 163-173. [The story of how Tiptree's identity was
revealed.]
--. "Obituaries: Alice Sheldon." S.F. Chronicle, July 1987,
pp. 16, 18.
- Smith, Jeffrey D.
- Khatru 3 & 4. Symposium: Women in Science
Fiction. Nov. 1975. 2d printing, May 1993, ed. Jeanne Gomoll.
Madison, WI: Obsessive Press: 1993.
- Smith, Marsha A.
- "The Disoriented Male Narrator and Societal
Conversions: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Feminist Utopian Vision."
ATQ v. ns3 (March 1989), pages 123-133.
- Smith, Stephanie A.
- "Morphing, Materialism and the Marketing of
Xenogenesis." Genders, no. 18 (Winter 1993): pp. 67-86.
- Soanes, Paul A., and Jim Pattison.
- Daughter of the Night: A
Tanith Lee Bibliography, Toronto: The Gaffa Press, 1993.
- Sobchack, Vivian.
- "The Virginity of Astronauts: Sex and the
Science Fiction Film." In Shadows of the Magic Lamp: Fantasy and
Science Fiction in Film ed. Eric S. Rabkin and George Slusser, pages
41-57. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985.
- Sobol, Donald.
- The Amazons of Greek Mythology (A. S.
Barnes, 1972)
- Sourbut, Elizabeth.
- "Review: Utopian and Science Fiction by
Women," Foundation, no. 64 (Summer 1995): pp. 114-117.
- Spalding, Donna Andreolle (Grenoble).
- "Fearing the Future:
Dystopian Social Spaces in 20th Century American Women's Speculative
Fiction."
http://www.ph-erfurt.de/~neumann/eese/artic20/donna/2_2000.html
- Spector, Judith A.
-
--. "Science Fiction and the Sex War: A Womb of One's Own,"
Literature and Psychology, v. 31, no. 1 (1981): pp. 21-32.
--. "Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde: Gender-Related Conflict in the
Science Fiction of Joanna Russ." Extrapolation Volume 24, no. 4
(Winter 1983), pages 370-379.
--. "The Functions of Sexuality in the Science Fiction of Russ,
Piercy, and Le Guin." in Donald Palumbo, editor, Erotic Universe:
Sexuality and Fantastic Literature. New York: Greenwood, 1986. pages
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Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1 (6)
Rhetoric of Identification 7 (5)
New Rhetoric of Genre 12 (5)
Utopia as Rhetorical Subject 17 (6)
Chapter One: Utopia and Utopianism 23 (12)
Utopia and Ideology 24 (2)
Utopia as Literary Genre 26 (9)
Chapter Two: Utopianism and Feminism 35 (50)
Scrapping False Dichotomies 36 (25)
Genre Transformation 61 (24)
Chapter Three: Dorothy Bryant: Saving the Human Race 85 (42)
The Real World 87 (3)
Utopian Chronotope 90 (9)
Utopian People 99 (13)
Dream-time: Fluid Meaning and Rigid Word 112 (5)
The Law of Light 117 (10)
Chapter Four: Joanna Russ: New Meaning for Old Concepts 127 (36)
Calculated Ambiguity 128 (9)
Janet the Savior 137 (5)
Jeannine: Cognitive Starvation 142 (2)
Jael: Terror of Terrorism 144 (4)
Joanna: Usurp the Denied 148 (6)
Identification Revisited 154 (9)
Conclusion: Utopian Genre as Feminist Strategy 163 (12)
Notes 175 (6)
Glossary 181 (2)
Bibliography 183 (10)
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