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- A -
- Abrash, Merritt.
- "Le Guin's The Field of Vision: A Minority View on
Ultimate Truth." Extrapolation v. 26 (Spring 1985), pages 5-15.
- Albinski, Nan Bowman.
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--. "Utopia Reconsidered: Women Novelists and Nineteenth-Century
Utopian Visions." Signs v. 13 (Summer 1988): pp. 830-841.
--. Women's Utopias in British and American Fiction.
London: Routledge, 1988.
--. "'The Laws of Justice, of Nature, and of Right': Victorian
Feminist Utopias." in Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative edited by
Libby Falk Jones and Sarah Webster Goodwin. Knoxville: University of
Tennessee Press, 1990.
- Allen, Virginia, and Terri Paul.
- "Science and Fiction: Ways of
Theorizing about Women." in Donald Palumbo, editor, Erotic Universe:
Sexuality and Fantastic Literature. New York: Greenwood, 1986. pages
165-183.
- Allison, Dorothy.
- "The Future of Female: Octavia Butler's Mother
Lode." In Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology,
edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 471-78. New York: Meridian, 1990.
- Alting, Mark Carpentier
- Oneindig Moment: Informatie Over
Tanith Lee. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1986. ISBN 90 290 2046 6.
- Andermahr, Sonya.
- "The Worlds of Lesbian / Feminist Science
Fiction." Outwrite: Lesbianism and Popular Culture ed. by Gabriele
Griffin. London: Pluto, 1993, pp. 106-125.
- Anderson, Susan Janice.
- "Introduction: Feminism and Science Fiction: Beyond BEMS and
Boobs" in Aurora: Beyond Equality, edited by Vonda McIntyre and
Susan Janice Anderson. Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Publications, 1976.
- Andrinao, Joseph.
- "The Handmaid's Tale as a Scrabble Game."
Essays on Canadian Writing v 48 (1992-93) pp. 89-96.
- Annas, Pamela J.
- "New Worlds, New Words: Androgyny in Feminist
Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies v. 5, pt. 2, no. 15 (July
1978): pp. 143-56. [On Le Guin among others.]
- Antczak, Janice.
- "Octavia E. Butler: New Designs for a Challenging Future" in
African-American Voices in Young Adult Literature: Tradition,
Transition, Transformation edited by Karen Patricia Smith (Metuchen:
Scarecrow, 1994): pp. 311-336.
- Appleton, Jane Sophia.
- "Sequel to the Vision of Bangor in the Twentieth Century." In
American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction, edited by Arthur O. Lewis
Jr., pp. 243-265. New York: Arno Press, 1971.
- Arbur, Rosemarie.
-
--. "Beyond Feminism, the Self Intact: Woman's Place in the Work
of Ursula K. Le Guin" in Thomas J. Remington, Selected Proceedings of
the 1978 Science Fiction Research Association National Conference
(Cedar Falls, Iowa: University of Northern Iowa, 1979). pages 146-163.
--. Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne McCaffrey: A
Primary and Secondary Bibliography (G. K. Hall, 1982) [aka ...: A
Reference Guide]
--. "Leigh Brackett: No 'Long Goodbye' Is Good Enough." In
Staicar's The Feminine Eye (New York: Ungar, 1982) pp. 1-13.
--. Marion Zimmer Bradley (Starmont Reader's Guide Series,
volume 27) (Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1985; Borgo Press:
1985) (ISBN 0-916732-95-9)
- Armitt, Lucie., editor.
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--. Where No Man has Gone Before: Women and Science
Fiction. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Anthology. Includes:
Introduction. Includes essays on Charlotte Haldane, Katherine Burdekin,
Maureen Duffy, Gwyneth Jones, Ursula Le Guin, Doris Lessing, C. L. Moore,
etc.
--. Theorising the Fantastic. London & New York: Arnold,
1996.
- Arnason, Eleanor.
- "On Writing Science Fiction" in Women of Vision edited
by Denise Du Pont (New York: St. Martin's, 1988): pp. 98-108.
- Aronstein, Susan.
- "Prize or Pawn? Homosocial Order, Marriage, and the
Redefinition of Women in the Gawain Continuation." Romanic Review
v. 82 (March 1991): pp. 115-26.
- Asaro, Catherine; Dennis Danvers; and Severna Parks.
- "A
panel on strong female characters in science fiction"
http://www.scifi.com/transcripts/1998/StrongWomenCharacters.html
- Ashley, Mike.
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"The Tanith Lee Bibliography," Fantasy Macabre, no. 4
(1983): pp. 27-36.
- Attebery, Brian.
- "Women's Coming of Age in Fantasy." Extrapolation v. 28
(Spring 1987): pp. 10-22.
--. The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving
to Le Guin (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980)
--. "Gender, Fantasy, and the Authority of Tradition." Journal
of the Fantstic in the Arts v.7, n.1 (#25): pp. 51-60 (1996).
- Atwood, Margaret.
- "Marge Piercy: Woman on the Edge of Time and Living in
the Open." The Nation 12/4/1976, pp. 601-602; also in Second
Words: Selected Critical Prose (Boston: Beacon Press, 1984) pp.
272-278.
--. "Witches." in Second Words: Selected Critical Prose
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1984): pp. 329-333.
- Axsom, Margo.
- Border Crossings: The Emergence of Feminist Science Fiction as a Genre.
Dissertation.
Chapter 3: Frankenstein
Evolves - available online at http://www.sonoma.edu/ar/ar/Staff/AxsomDissertation.html
Discussion of Angel Island by Inez Haynes Gilmore and The Female
Man by Joanna Russ.
- Ayres, Susan.
- "The 'Straight Mind' in Russ's The Female Man."
Science-Fiction Studies Volume 22, Part 1, Number 65 (March 1995):
pages 22 - 34.
- B -
- Bacon-Smith, Camille.
- Bacon-Smith does anthropological studies of slash fiction &
sf fandom.
--. "Spock Among the Women (Star Trek Fanzine Writers)."
The New York Times Book Review. V. 91 (November 16, 1986), pages
1-.
--. Science Fiction Culture (Feminist Cultural
Studies, the Media and Political Culture) (2000)
--. Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the
Creation of Popular Myth. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1992.
- Badami, Mary Kay.
- "A Feminist Critique of Science Fiction."
Extrapolation Volume 18, no. 1 (December 1976): pages 6-19.
- Baer, Barbara L.
- "Apart to the End? Women and Men -- Different
Visions of Nuclear War." Commonweal v. 112 (March 22 1985), pages
167-170.
- Baggeson, Soren.
- "Utopian and Dystopian Pessimism: Le Guin's
The Word for World is Forest and Tiptree's "We Who Stole the
Dream." Science Fiction Studies v. 14 (1987): pages 34-43.
- Bainbridge, William Sims.
- "Women in Science Fiction." Sex
Roles V. 8 (October 1982): pages 1081 - 1093.
Statistics about
women in science fiction both as authors and readers.
- Baird, Lani and Jake Stuiver.
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"Space babe Leia flaunts a rare feminist flair". The Digital
Collegian Friday, Feb. 21, 1997.
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/1997/02/02-21-97tdc/02-21-97d05-010.htm
(Penn State University)
- Balsamo, A.
- "Reading Cyborgs Writing Feminism." Communication
Volume 10 (1988): pages 334-44.
- Bammer, Angelika.
- Partial Visions: Feminism and Utopianism in
the 1970s. New York & London: Routledge, 1991.
- Banerjee, Chinmoy.
- "Alice in Disneyland: Criticism as Commodity in The
Handmaid's Tale." Essays on Canadian Writing v 41 (Summer 1990)
pp 74-92.
- Barbour, Douglas.
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--. "The Lathe of Heaven: Taoist Dream," Algol,
no. 21 (Nov. 1973): pp. 22-24.
--. "Wholeness and Balance in the Hainish Novels of Le Guin."
Science-Fiction Studies v. 1, 3 (Spring 1974): pp. 164-172.
--. "Wholeness and Balance: An Addendum," Science-Fiction
Studies 2, 3 (Nov. 1975): pp. 248-249.
--. Worlds out of Words: the SF Novels of Samuel R. Delany
(Somerset, England: Bran's Head Books, 1979).
--. "Joanna Russ's The Female Man: An Appreciation" in
The Sphinx: A Magazine of Literature and Society v. 4 no. 1 (1981):
pp. 65-75.
- Barr, Marleen.
-
--. "Charles Bronson, Samurai, and Other Feminine Images: A
Transactive Response to The Left Hand of Darkness" in Future
Females: A Critical Anthology edited by Marlene S. Barr (Bowling Green
State University Popular Press: 1981), pp. 138-154.
--. "Suzy McKee Charnas," in Twentieth Century Science Fiction
Writers, edited by Curtis C. Smith. New York: St. Martin's, 1981.
--, editor. Future Females: A Critical Anthology. Bowling
Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1981.
--. "Holding Fast to Feminism and Moving Beyond: Suzy McKee
Charnas's The Vampire Tapestry." In Tom Staicar, editor, The
Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write It (New York:
Ungar, 1982). pp. 60-72, 138-140.
--. "Science Fiction and the fact of Women's Repressed
Creativity: Anne McCaffrey Portrays a Female Artist." Extrapolation
v. 23, no. 1 (1982): pp. 70-76.
--. "Utopia at the End of a Male Chauvinist Dystopian World: Suzy
McKee Charnas's Feminist Science Fiction" in Marleen Barr and Nicholas D.
Smith, editors, Women and Utopia: Critical Interpretations (Lanham,
MD: University Press of America, 1983), pp. 43-66. Analyzes Charnas'
Walk to the End of the World and Motherlines.
--, and Nicholas Smith, editors. Women and Utopia: Critical
Interpretations. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America,
1983.
--. Oh Well, Orwell: Big Sister Is Watching Herself: Feminist
Science Fiction in 1984 (May 1984)
--, editor. Feminist Science Fiction. Special issue of
Women's Studies International Forum Volume 7, Number 2 (1984).
--. "Science Fiction's Invisible Female Man: Feminism, Formula,
Word and World in 'When It Changed' and 'The Women Men Don't See'", in Luk
de Vos, editor, Just the Other Day: Essays on the Suture of the
Future. Antwerp: EXA, 1985. pages 433-437. (Series: Intrepid
Reeks number 11.) Also as: "Science Fiction's Invisible Female Men:
Joanna Russ's 'When It Changed' and James Tiptree's 'The Women Men Don't
See.'", in Chapter 5 of Lost in Space (1993)
--. "Immortal Feminist Communities: A Recent Idea in Science
Fiction," in Death and the Serpent, edited by carl B. Yoke and
Donald M. Hassler. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985: pp. 39-47. Discussion
of Motherlines by Charnas and other feminist sf.
--. "'The Females Do the Fathering!' James Tiptree's Male
Matriarchs and Adult Human Gametes." Science Fiction Studies
v. 13 no. 38 (March 1986) pages 42-49. Also: "'The Females Do the
Fathering!' Reading, Resisting, and James Tiptree, Jr." Rev. & Reprinted
in Alien to Feminity.
--. "Permissive, Unspectacular, a Little Baffling: Sex and the
Single Feminist Utopian Quasi-Tribesperson." in Donald Palumbo, editor,
Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature. New York:
Greenwood, 1986. pages 185-196.
--. Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist
Theory. Westport, Connecticutt: Greenwood Press, 1987. (Contributions
to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy Series, No. 27)
--. "Feminist Fabulation; or, Playing with Patriarchy vs. the
Masculinization of Metafiction." Women's Studies Volume 14, Number
2 (1987), pages 187-191.
--, and Patrick D. Murphy, eds. "Feminism Faces the Fantastic."
Special issue of Women's Studies, Volume 14, Number 2 (1987).
--. "Blurred Generic Conventions: Pregnancy and Power in Feminist
Science Fiction." Reproductive & Genetic Engineering v. 1 no. 2
(1988) pages 167-174.
--. "Food for Postmodern Thought." In Feminism, Utopia, and
Narrative, edited by Sarah Webster Goodwin and Libby Falk Jones, pages
21-33. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990.
--. "News from Somewhere." Science Fiction Studies, v. 17,
pt. 3 (1990): pp. 401-404.
--. "Men in Feminist Science Fiction: Marge Piercy, Thomas Berger
and the End of Masculinity" in Rhys Garnett and R. J. Ellis, eds.,
Science Fiction Roots and Branches: Contemporary Critical
Approaches. (New York: Macmillan / St. Martin's, 1990), pp. 153-167.
--. "Review of Feminist Utopias by Francis Bartkowski."
Science Fiction Studies 17 (1990): pages 401 - 404.
--. "Thelma and Louise: Driving toward Feminist SF; Or, Yes, Women
Do Dream of Not Being Electric Sheep." Foundation: The Review of
Science Fiction (Essex, England) v. 53 (Autumn 1991), pp. 80-86.
--. "Working at Loving: The Postseparatist Feminist Utopia." Actes
du XIe colloque de CERLI, January 26-27 1990. In Eros, Science Fiction,
Fantastique Aix-en-Provence: Universite de Provence, 1991. pages
179-189. about Doris Lessing, Pamela Sargent, and Joan Slonczewski.
--. Feminist Fabulation: Space / Postmodern Fiction. Iowa
City: University of Iowa Press, 1992.
--. Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and
Beyond. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina
Press, 1993. Includes foreword by Marge Piercy.
--. "Searoad Chronicles of Klatsand as a Pathway toward New
Directions in Feminist Science Fiction: Or Who's Afraid of Connecting
Ursula Le Guin to Virginia Woolf?" Foundation: The Review of Science
Fiction (London, England) v. 60 (Spring 1994) pages 58-67.
--. Future Females, The Next Generation: New Voices and
Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism (2000)
--, and Nicholas D. Smith, editors. Women and Utopia: Critical
Interpretations. Landham, Maryland: University Press of America,
1983.
- Bartkowski, Frances.
- Feminist Utopias. Lincoln, Nebraska:
University of Nebraska Press, 1989.
--. "No Shadows Without Light. " Feminist Utopias. Lincoln
& London : U of Nebraska P, 1989. 133-58. Comparaison of The Handmaid's
Tale and L'Eugelionne (1976) by Louky Bersianik.
- Bartlett, J. L.
- "Paradox or
Publication: Women in More's Utopia" 3/2000.
http://www.womenwriters.net/editorials/bartlett200.htm
- Bartter, Martha A.
- "Science, Science Fiction and Women: A Language
of (Tacit) Exclusion." Etc. v. 49 (Winter 92/93) pages 406-419.
- Baruch, Elaine Hoffman.
-
--. "'A Natural and Necessary Monster': Women in Utopia."
Alternative Futures Volume 2, Number 1 (Winter 1979): pages 29-49.
--. "Dystopia Now." Alternative Futures: The Journal of Utopian
Studies (Summer 1979): pages 55-67.
- Bassnett, Susan.
- "Remaking the Old World: Ursula Le Guin and the American
Tradition." in Where No Man Has Gone Before: Women and Science
Fiction edited by Lucie Armitt. London: Routledge, 1991: pp. 50-66.
- Bazin, Nancy Topping.
- "Women and Revolution in Dystopian Fiction : Nadine Gordimer's
July's
People and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Selected
Essays : International Conference on Representing Revolution 1989. Ed.
John Michael Grafton. Carrollton, Ga. : West Georgia College,
1991. 115-27.
--. "British Reviews of Shikasta." Doris Lessing
Newsletter v. 4 (Winter 1980): pp. 7, 9-15.
- Beal, Frances M.
- "Black Women and the Science Fiction Genre:
Interview with Octavia Butler." Black Scholar Volume 17
(March-April 1986): pages 14-18.
- Bedore, Pamela.
- "Slavery and Symbiosis in Octavia Butler's
Kindred." in Foundation: The International Review of Science
Fiction v. 31, no. 84 (Spring 2002): pp. 73-81.
- Bell-Metereau, Rebecca.
- Hollywood Androgyny (Columbia
University Press, 1985). Substantial discussions of films including "Myra
Breckenridge" (1970) (pp. 162-166), "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975)
(pp. 178-187), and "Alien" (1980) (pp. 209-224), among many other
non-sf-al films. The emphasis is on gender roles & transgender issues.
Surprisingly readable and not afflicted with post-modern headache-making
language. -- lq, 5/14/00
- Benson, Gordon. Stephenson-Payne, Phil.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley:
Mistress of Magic: A Working Bibliography (Galactic Central
Bibliographies Ser. No. 40) (Borgo Press, 1992)
- Benton, Jill.
- Naomi Mitchison: A Century of Experiment in Life and
Letters. London: Pandora, 1990.
- Berard, Sylvie.
-
--. "Amazones de tir dans la SF cote femmes!" Tessera North
York, Ontario, Canada. v. 15 (Winter 1993) pages 42-55. (in French)
--. Je pense "or" je suis. Discours et identite dans la SF cote
femmes. D'U.K. Le Guin a E. Vonarburg. [I Think Theref[or]e I Am.
Discourse and Identity in SF on the Women's Side. From U. K. Le Guin to E.
Vonarburg.]. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universite du Quebec a Montreal,
1995.
--. "Les nouvelles d'Elisabeth Vonarburg ou la nouvelle au-dela du
recueil." XYZ. La revue de la nouvelle, # 43, Autumn 1995.
--. "Qu'ouir, que lire? Gonades et derobades dans l'espace
science-fictionnel." Post, # 9 (forthcoming in Autumn 1995).
- Berger, Arthur Asa.
- "A Personal Response to Whetmore's 'A Female
Captain's Enterprise'" in Future Females: A Critical Anthology
edited by Marlene S. Barr (Bowling Green State University Popular Press:
1981), pp. 162-163.
- Bergstrom, Janet.
- "Androids and Androgyny." Camera Obscura: A Journal of
Feminism and Film Theory (Rochester, NY), v. 15 (Fall
1986): pp. 36-65.
- Berkley, Miriam.
- "Ursula K. Le Guin." Publishers Weekly (May
1986): p. 72.
- Berman, Ruth.
- "An Arnason
Note" in Last Homely Hearth #8 (August, 1981).
- Berman, Jeffrey.
- "Where's All the Fiction in Science Fiction?" in
Future Females: A Critical Anthology edited by Marlene S. Barr
(Bowling Green State University Popular Press: 1981), pp. 164-176.
- Bester, Alfred, 1913- .
- "Sex in the Year 2500," interview with
Jeremy Hughes, In Touch for Men, July 1982. Bester discusses
the gay rights movement.
- Beswick, Norman. "Ideology and Dogma in the 'Ferocious' SF Novels of
Sheri S. Tepper." Foundation: Review of Science Fiction
v.71: pp. 32-44 (Autumn 1997).
- Bewell, Alan.
- "An Issue of Monstrous Desire: Frankenstein
and Obstetrics." The Yale Journal of Criticism, v. 2, no. 1 (Fall
1988): pp. 105-128.
- Bickman, Martin.
-
"Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness: Form and Content,"
Science-Fiction Studies, v. 4, no. 1 (March 1977): pp. 42-47.
- Bierman, Judah.
- "Ambiguity in Utopia: The Dispossessed."
Science-Fiction Studies, v. 2, no. 3 (# 7) (Nov. 1975): pp.
249-256.
- Bignell, Jonathan.
- "The Handmaid's Tale: Novel and Film"
British Journal of Canadian Studies v 8 n 1 (1993): pp 71-84.
- Binder, Regina. Die Maskierte Utopie: Feminismus und Science
Fiction ISBN 3631487940; 171 pp.; P. Lang.
- Bittner, James W.
-
--. "Chronosophy, Aesthetics, and Ethics in Le Guin's The
Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia." in No Place Else: Explorations
in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction edited by Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H.
Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University
Press, 1983: pp. 244-270.
--. Approaches to the Fiction of Ursula K. LeGuin Ann
Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1984. (Studies in Speculative Fiction No. 4)
(0-8357-2013-6)
- Blagden, Nellie.
- "Otherworldly women (women novelists)."
Life. v. 7 (July 1984), pages 112-117.
- Blodgett, Harriet.
- "Fresh Iconography: Subversive Fantasy by Angela Carter."
The Review of Contemporary Fiction v. 14 (Fall 1994): pp. 49-55.
- Blum, Joanne.
- "Return to the Myth in Fictions by Le Guin, Bryant, and
Tiptree." in Transcending Gender: The Male / Female Double in Women's
Fiction. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988: pp. 61-76.
- Bogstad, Janice.
-
--. Editorial: "The Science Fiction Connection: Readers and
Writers in the SF Community." Janus, v. 3, no. 4 (#10): 1977, pp.
4-8.
--. "Octavia E. Butler and Power Relationships," Janus, 4
(1978-1979): pp. 28-31.
--, with Barbara Emrys. "Science Fiction and Women's
Networking." New Moon: A Quarterly Journal of SF and Critical
Feminism." Winter 1981-1982: pp. 2-3, 17-19.
- Bonner, Frances.
-
--. "Difference and Desire, Slavery and Seduction: Octavia
Butler's Xenogenesis." Foundation no. 48
(1990): pp. 50-62.
--. "Towards a Better Way of Being: Feminist Science Fiction" in
Imagining Women: Cultural Representations and Gender, edited by
Frances Bonner, Cambridge: Polity, 1992: pp. 94-102.
--. "Review: Aliens and Others: Science Fiction, Feminism and
Postmodernism." Foundation, v. 62, Winter 1994/1995, pp.
89-93.
- Booker, M. Keith.
- "Woman on the Edge of a Genre: The Feminist
Dystopias of Marge Piercy." Science-Fiction Studies v. 21 (Nov.
1994): pp. 337-350.
- Booth, H. Austin.
- "Women, Gender, and Cyberculture" in Choice:
Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (July/August 2000)
(bibliography)
- Borghi, Liana.
-
"Liminaliens and Others -- But Mostly Vamps, Dragons and Women's
SF." in Critical Studies on the Feminist Subject ed. by Giovanna
Covi (1997) (ISBN 88-86135-70-X).
- Boulter, Amanda.
- "Alice James Raccoona Tiptree Sheldon Jr.: Textual Personas in
the Short Fiction of Alice Sheldon." Foundation: The Review of Science
Fiction [London, England]: v. 63 (Spring 1995): pp. 5-31.
- Brackett, Leigh.
-
--. Interview, in Speaking of Science Fiction: The Paul Walker
Interviews, Paul Walker, editor, Oradell, NJ: LUNA Publications, 1978:
pp. 370-383.
-- and Edmond Hamilton. "Interview with Leigh Brackett and Edmond
Hamilton," Science Fiction Review, v. 6, no. 2 (May 1977): pp.
6-15.
- Bradley, Marion Zimmer.
-
--, writing as Miriam Gardner. "Behind the Borderline" in
Ladder, Oct. 1960. Autobiographical information.
--. "Of Men, Halflings, and Hero Worship," Rochester, Texas, 1961
(private printing); Baltimore, T-K Graphics, 1973; revised in Tolkien
and the Critics, edited by Neil Isaacs and Rose A. Zimbardo, Notre
Dame, Indiana, and London: Notre Dame Press, 1968. [speculations on the
possibly homosexual friendship between Frodo and Sam]
--. "Responsibilities and Temptations of Women Science Fiction
Writers," in Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and
Fantasy, Jane B. Weedman, editor, Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1985: pp.
25-42.
--. "One Woman's Experience in Science Fiction," in Women of
Vision, edited by Denise Du Pont, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988:
pp. 84-97.
- Braidotti, Rosi.
- "Cyberfeminism
with a Difference"
http://www.let.ruu.nl/womens_studies/rosi/cyberfem.htm
- Braun, Beth.
- "The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The
Ambiguity of Evil in Supernatural Representations." Journal of Popular
Film and Television v. 28, no. 2 (2000): pp. 88-94.
- Breen, Walter.
-
The Darkover Concordance (Berkeley, Calif.: Pennyfarthing
Press, 1979).
- Brennan, Zoe.
-
--. "Visions of Women, Technology and the Future in Feminist
Science Fiction." Submitted by Zoe Brennan to the University of Exeter as
a dissertation towards the degree of Master of Arts by advanced study in
Women's Studies, September 1994. Abstract available
online at http://www.ex.ac.uk/ws/Abstracts/AbBrennan.html
Discusses a variety of works including Angela Carter's Heroes and
Villains.
- Brewer, Marie Minnich.
- "Surviving Fictions: Gender and Difference in Postmodern and
Postnuclear Narrative." Discourse Volume 9 (1987): pages 37-52.
- Brians, Paul.
- --. "Study
Guide: Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale."
--. "Study
Guide: Ursula LeGuin The Dispossessed."
- Brizzi, Mary T.
-
--. "C. J. Cherryh and Tomorrow's New Sex Roles" in Staicar's
The Feminine Eye (Ungar: New York, 1982), pp. 32-47.
--. "Narcissism and Romance in McCaffrey's Restoree," in
Patterns of the Fantastic, edited by Donald M Hasser, Academic
Programming at CHICON IV, San Berandino, California: Borgo Press, 1983:
pp. 136-145.
--. "The Launching Pad," in Extrapolation, v. 23, no. 1
(1982): pp. 3-4, 107.
- Broderick, Damien, and Joanna Russ.
- "The Broderick-Russ Correspondence." Australian Science
Fiction Review, May 1987, pp. 9-18.
- Broege, Valerie.
- "Women and Technology in Science Fiction: An
Uneasy Alliance," in Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science
Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Valerie Broege, Lubbock: Texas Tech
Press, 1985: pp. 43-58.
- Brooks, Rick.
- "Andre Norton: Loss of Faith," The Dipple Chronicle 1
(Nov / Dec 1971): pp. 12-30; reprinted in The Many Worlds of Andrew
Norton, edited by Roger Elwood (Radnor, Pennsylvania: Chilton, 1974):
pp. 178-200; later title, The Book of Andre Norton (New York: Daw
Books, 1975).
- Browning, Tonya J.
- --. "A Foray
Into History: A Brief Historical Survey of Women Writers of Science
Fiction"
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~tonya/Tonya/sf/history.html
--. "Filling the Gaps Between Hard and Soft Science
Fiction: A Case Study of Technofeminist Pat Cadigan." SISSI
Proceedings, June 1994. Invited lecture at "The Image of Technology in
Literature, the Media and Society." Society for Interdisciplinary Study
of Social Imagery (SISSI) and the University of Southern Colorado,
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