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Useful Supplemental Resources for
Feminist Science Fiction Senior Seminar
Spring 2004  -- Kay Fowler

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Note: many of the essays for student reports are taken from among these texts.  The library has copies on reserve for me for most of these titles.  An extremely useful and detailed bibliography is available on Laura Quilter's outstanding website on Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopia website.

Albinski, Nan Bowman.  Women's Utopias in British and American Fiction. London: Routledge, 1988.
Alkon, Paul K.  Science Fiction Before 1900:  Imagination Discovers Technology.  1994.  PN3433.5 .A45 1994
Armitt, Lucie.  Contemporary Women's Fiction and the Fantastic. Macmillan, 2000
PN3435 .A73 2000
Armitt, Lucie, ed.  Where No Man Has Gone Before:  Women and SF.  Routledge, 1991.
Ash, Constance, ed. Not of Woman Born.  Penguin, 1999.
Attebury, Biran.  Decoding Gender in Science Fiction.  2002.
Barr, Marleen.  Alien to Feminity:  Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory.  Westport:  Greenwood Press, 1987.  PN 3433.6.B37 1987
Barr, Marleen, ed.  Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millenium.  2003. 
Barr, Marleen.  Feminist Fabulations:  Space/Postmodern Fiction. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992.  PN 3401 .B38 1992
Barr, Marleen, ed.  Future Females:  A Critical Anthology.  Bowling Green State UP, 1981.  PS374.S35 F8 1981
Barr, Marleen, ed.  Future Females:  The Next Generation:  New Voices and Velocities in Feminist SF Criticism.  Bowling Green State UP, 2000.  PS 374.S35 F88 2000
Barr, Marleen.  Lost in Space:  Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond.  Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1993.  PS374 .S35 B33 1993
Bartkowski, Frances.  Feminist Utopias.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.  PS374 .U8 B38 1989
Benford, Gregory, ed.  The New Hugo Winners.  Vol. IV.  Baen, 1997.
Burwell, Jennifer.  Notes on Nowhere:  Feminism, Utopian Logic and Social Transformation. 1997.  PS374.U8 B87 1997
Butler, Octavia.  Bloodchild and other Stories.  Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995. Fowler P-28
Clareson, Thomas D.  Many Futures, Many Worlds:  Theme and Form in Science Fiction.  1977 PN3448.S45 M3
Donawerth, Jane.  Frankenstein's Daughters:  Women Writing SF.  Syracuse, 1997.  PS374 .S35 D66 1997
Donawerth, Jane, and C. Kolmerten, eds.  Utopian and Science Fiction by Women.  Syracuse UP, 1994.  PR830 U7 U86 1994
Griffith, Nicola and Stephen Pagel, eds. Science Fiction:  Bending the Landscape: Original Gay and Lesbian Writing.  Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 1998.  PS648.S3 S865 1998.
Dupont, Denise, ed.  Women of Vision: Essays by Women Writing Science Fiction.  New York: St. Martins' Press, 1988. PS374 .S35 W64 1988
 Gunn, James.  The Science of Science Fiction Writing.  Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2000
Haraway, Donna J. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature.  NY: Routledge, 1991.  GN365.9 .837 1991
Helford, Elyce Rae.  "(E)raced Visions: Women of Color and Science Fiction in the US." Worlds in Conflict: Science Fiction and the Contests for Authority. Eds. Gary Westfahl and George Slusser. Atlanta, GA: University of Georgia Press (forthcoming).
Hollinger, Veronica and Joan Gordon, eds.  Edging into the Future:  Science Fiction and Contempoary Cultural Transformation.  2002.
Hopkinson, Nalo, ed.  Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root. Invisible Cities Press, 2000.  PR9205.8 W47 2000
Hossein, Rakeya Sakawat.  Sultana's Dream and Selections from the Secluded Ones.  Feminist Press, 1990.
Ingram, Angela and Daphne Patai, eds.  Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals:  British Women Writers 1889-1939. University of North Carolina Press, 1993.  PR478.R33 R44 1993.
 Joannou, Maroula.  Contemporary Women's Writing from The Golden Notebook to The Color Purple.    Manchester University Press, 2000.  PR608 .W65 J62 2000.
Jones, Libby Falk and Sarah Webster Goodwin, eds. Feminism, Utopia and Narrative.  1990.  PN56 .F46 F46 1990
King, Betty.  Women of the Future: the Female Main Character in Science Fiction.  1984 PS374.S35 K44 1984
Kuellen, Margarete.  Radical Imagination:  Feminist Conceptions of the Future in Leguin, Piercy, and Gearhart.  NY: P. Lang, 1991.  PS 374.F86 K48 1991
Landon, Brooks.  Science Fiction after 1900: from the Steam Man to the Stars.  1997.  PN3433.8 L36 1997.
LeFanu, Sarah, In the Chinks of the World's Machine.  1988.  (alternate title:  Feminism and Science Fiction) PN3433.6.L4 1988
LeGuin, Ursula K. Dancing at the Edge of the World:  Thoughts on Words, Women, Places.  1989.  PS3562.E42 D36 1989
Mellor, Anne K. Romanticism and Feminism.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.
Merrick, Helen H.  and Tess Williams, eds.  Women of Other Worlds:  Excursions through Science Fiction and Feminism.  1999.
Moskowitz, Sam, ed.  Science Fiction by Gaslight: A History and Popular Anthology of Science Fiction in the Popular Magazines, 1891-1911. 1974.  PZ1.M838 Sc
Notkin, Debbie and the Secret Feminist Cabal, eds. Flying Cups and Saucers:  Gender Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Cambridge, MA: Edgewood Press,1998.  PS648.S3 F58 1998.
Pohl, Frederik, ed.  The SFWA Grand Masters. Vol. 2  Tom Doherty Press, 2000.
Reid, Suzanne Elizabeth.  Presenting Ursula K. LeGuin.  1997.  PS362.E42
Roberts, Robin.  A New Species: Gender and Science in SF.U Illinois, 1993.  PS 374 .S35 R6 1993
Rosinsky, Natalie M.  Feminist Futures -- Contemporary Women's Speculative Fiction.  1984.  PS374.F86 R6 1984.
Russ, Joanna.  To Write Like a Woman, 1995.  PS 147 R87 1995
Sargent, Pamela, ed.  Women of Wonder: The Classic Years.  Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s. 1995  PS648.S3 W64 1995
Sargent, Pamela, ed.  Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years.  Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s. 1995  PS648.S3 W643 1995
Sarrantonio, Al, ed.  Redshift.  Roc, 2001.
Schlobin, Roger G.  Urania's Daughters:  A Checklist of Women Science Fiction Writers, 1692-1982.  Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1983.Shinn, Thelma J.  Worlds Within Women:  Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women.  1986.  PS374.F27 S45 1986.
Staicar, Tom, ed.  The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write It.  New York: Ungar, 1982.  PS37.S35 F45 1982
Sturgis, Susannah, ed.  Memories and Visions: Fantasy and Science Fiction. Crossing Press, 1989.    
Sturgis, Susannah, ed.  The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction. Vol. 2 Crossing Press, 1990.
Williams, A. Susan and Richard Glyn Jones. The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women.  London: Viking/Penguin, 1995.  PN6069 .W65 P39 1996.
Wolmark, Jenny.  Aliens and Others:  Science Fiction, Feminism, and Postmodernism.  1994.  PN3433.6 .W64 1994.
Yntema, Sharon, ed.  More Than 100 Woman Science Fiction Writers: An Annotated Bibliography, Updated Edition.  Freedom, California: The Crossing Press (1988, 1990).

Selected Bibliography for Research Projects for Feminist Science Fiction (ZSRS 40501)  Fall 2002 Kay Fowler

I have selected one or two articles for each of the writers you will be reporting on -- but note -- this is just to get you started -- you must go much further using the electronic databases, print resources, the Voyager catalog, etc.  Visit the Potter library research page to get started.

Leigh Brackett
Rosemarie Arbur.  "Leigh Brackett:  No 'Long Goodbye' is Good Enough." The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write It. Ed. Tom Staicar . New York: Ungar, 1982. 1-13.  PS37.S35 F45 1982

Marion Zimmer Bradley
Susan M. Shwartz, "Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ethic of Freedom." The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write It.  Ed. Tom Staicar . New York: Ungar, 1982. 73-88.  PS37.S35 F45 1982
Marion Zimmer Bradley, "One Woman's Experience in Science Fiction."  Women of Vision: Essays by Women Writing Science Fiction.  Ed. Denise Dupont,  New York: St. Martins' Press, 1988. 84-97.

Dorothy Bryant
Carol Pearson.  "Coming Home:  Four Feminist Utopias and Patriarchal Experience:  Mary Bradley Lane, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Dorothy Bryant, and Mary Stanton." Future Females:  A Critical Anthology. Ed.  Marleen Barr, Bowling Green State UP, 1981.  63-70.  PS374.S35 F8 1981

Katharine Burdekin
Raffaella Baccolini.  "Gender and Genre in the Feminist Critical Dystopias of Katharine Burdekin, Margaret Atwood, and Octavia Butler.  Future Females:  The Next Generation:  New Voices and Velocities in Feminist SF Criticism.  Ed. Marleen S. Barr.  Bowling Green State UP, 2000.  PS 374.S35 F88 2000
Daphne Patai.  "Imagining Reality:  The Utopian Fiction of Katharine Burdekin."  Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals:  British Women Writers 1889-1939. eds.  Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai. 1993.

Octavia Butler
Michelle Erica Green.  "'There Goes the Neighborhood': Octavia Butler's Demand for Diversity in Utopias."  Utopian and Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Jane C. Donawerth and C. Kolmerten.  Syracuse UP, 1994. 166-189.  PR830 U7 U86 1994
Marleen S. Barr. "Octavia Butler and James Tiptree Do Not Write About Zap Guns:  Positioning Feminist Science-Fiction within Feminist Fabulation.  Lost in Space:  Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond.  Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1993.  97-107. PS374 .S35 B33 1993
Raffaella Baccolini.  "Gender and Genre in the Feminist Critical Dystopias of Katharine Burdekin, Margaret Atwood, and Octavia Butler.  Future Females:  The Next Generation:  New Voices and Velocities in Feminist SF Criticism.  Ed. Marleen S. Barr.  Bowling Green State UP, 2000.  PS 374.S35 F88 2000
Lucie Armitt.  "Chronotypes and Cyborgs:  Octavia Butler, Joanna Russ, Fay Weldon and Marge Piercy." in Contemporary Women's Fiction and the Fantastic, ed. Lucie Armitt. Macmillan, 2000. 39-65 PN3435 .A73 2000
Maroula Joannou.  "Science Fiction and Detective Fiction" in  Women of the Future:  The Female Main Character in Science Fiction.  Manchester University Press, 2000. 125-135.  PR608 .W65 J62 2000.
Marleen S. Barr.  "Eclipsing the Connecticut Yankee: Female Time Travellers"  in Alien to Feminity:  Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory.  Westport:  Greenwood Press, 1987. 39-58.  PN 3433.6.B37 1987.

Margaret Cavendish
Lee Collen Khanna.  "The Subject of Utopia: Margaret Cavendish and Her Blazing-World." Utopian and Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Jane C. Donawerth and C. Kolmerten.  Syracuse UP, 1994. 15-34.  PR830 U7 U86 1994

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Frances Bartkowski.  "Remembering and Inventing:  Charlotte Perkins' Gilman's Herland" Bartkowski, Frances.  Feminist Utopias.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. 23-48.  PS374 .U8 B38 1989
Carol Farley Kessler.  "Consider Her Ways:  The Cultural Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Pragmotopian Stories, 1908-1913." Utopian and Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Jane C. Donawerth and C. Kolmerten.  Syracuse UP, 1994. 126-136.  PR830 U7 U86 1994 
Carol Farley. Kessler.  Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings.  Syracuse, 1995.
 Ann J. Lane.  To Herland and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.  Meridian, 1991.
Carol Pearson.  "Coming Home:  Four Feminist Utopias and Patriarchal Experience:  Mary Bradley Lane, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Dorothy Bryant, and Mary Stanton." Future Females:  A Critical Anthology. Ed.  Marleen Barr, Bowling Green State UP, 1981.  63-70.  PS374.S35 F8 1981

Nicola Griffith
Jane Donawerth.  "Feminist Dystopias of the 1990's: Record of Failure, Midwife of Hope." Future Females:  A Critical Anthology.  Ed. Marleen Barr.  Bowling Green State UP, 1981. 49-66.  PS374.S35 F8 1981

Charlotte Haldane
Susan Squier.   "Sexual Biopolitics in a Man's World: The Writings of Charolotte Haldan" Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939.  University of North Carolina Press, 1993.  PR608 .W65 J62 2000.

Ursula K. LeGuin
Sarah LeFanu.  "Inner Space and the Outer Lands:  Ursula K. LeGuin." In the Chinks of the World's Machine.  1988.  (alternate title:  Feminism and Science Fiction).  130-146.  PN3433.6.L4 1988
Norman N. Holland.  "You, U. K. LeGuin." Future Females:  A Critical Anthology.  Ed. Marleen Barr.  Bowling Green State UP, 1981. 125-137.  PS374.S35 F8 1981
Marleen S.  Barr:  "Charles Bronson, Samurai, and Other Feminine Images:  A Transactive Response to The Left Hand of Darkness." Future Females:  A Critical Anthology.  Ed. Marleen Barr.  Bowling Green State UP, 1981. 138-154.  PS374.S35 F8 1981

Katharine Maclean

Anne McCaffrey
Anne McCaffrey.  "Retrospection."  Women of Vision: Essays by Women Writing Science Fiction.  Ed. Denise Dupont,  New York: St. Martins' Press, 1988.  20-28
Marleen S. Barr.  "Anne McCaffrey Portrays a Female Artist." Lost in Space:  Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond.  Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1993.  30-38 PS374 .S35 B33 1993

Vondra McIntyre
Jenny Wolmark.  "The destabilisation of gender in Vondra McIntyre's Superluminal."  Science Fiction Roots and Branches:  Contemporary Critical Approaches.  London, Macmillan, 1990.  168-182.

Judith Merrill
 Judith Merril, "Better to Have Loived: Excerpts from a Life"  Women of Other Worlds:  Excursions through Science Fiction and Feminism. ed. Helen H. Merrick  and Tess Williams, 1999.  422-442.

Naomi Mitchison
LeFanu, Sarah.  "Difference and Sexual Politics in Naomi Mitchison's Solution Three." Utopian and Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Jane C. Donawerth and C. Kolmerten.  Syracuse UP, 1994. 153-165.  PR830 U7 U86 1994

C. L Moore:
Gunn, James.  "Henry Kuttner, C. L Moore, et. all." The Science of Science Fiction Writing.  Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2000, 171-200.
Patricia Matthews, "Classic Science Fiction: C. L. Moore's Stories" The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write It.  Ed. Tom Staicar . New York: Ungar, 1982. 14-24.  PS37.S35 F45 1982
Sarah Gamble.  "Shambleau and Others..." in Where No Man Has Gone Before:  Women and SF. ed. Lucie Armitt, 29-49. Routledge, 1991.

Andre Norton
Roger. C. Schlobin.  "Andre Norton:  Humanity Amid the Hardware." The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write It.  Ed. Tom Staicar . New York: Ungar, 1982. 25-31.  PS37.S35 F45 1982

Marge Piercy
Frances Bartkowski.  "The Kinship Web:  Joanna Russ' The Female Man and Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time." Feminist Utopias.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. 49-80.  PS374 .U8 B38 1989
Joanna Russ.  "Recent Feminist Utopias." Future Females:  A Critical Anthology.  Ed. Marleen Barr.  Bowling Green State UP, 1981. 71-89.  PS374.S35 F8 1981
Susan Kress.  "In and Out of Time: The Form of Marge Piercy's Novels."  Future Females:  A Critical Anthology.  Ed. Marleen Barr.  Bowling Green State UP, 1981. 109-122.  PS374.S35 F8 1981
Marleen S. Barr:  "Suzy McKee Charnas, Sally Gearhart and Marge Piercy Depict Sex and the Single Feminist Utopian Quasi-tribesperson." 39-49 and "Men in Feminist Science Fiction:  Marge Piercy, Thomas Berger and the End of Masculinity" 67-80. Lost in Space:  Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond.  Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1993.  PS374 .S35 B33 1993
Marge Piercy.  "Love and Sex in the Year 3000."  in Envisioning the Future:  Science Fiction and the Next Millenium, ed. Marleen S. Barr.  2003.
Lucie Armitt.  "Chronotypes and Cyborgs:  Octavia Butler, Joanna Russ, Fay Weldon and Marge Piercy." in Contemporary Women's Fiction and the Fantastic, ed. Lucie Armitt. Macmillan, 2000. 39-65 PN3435 .A73 2000
Maroula Joannou.  "Science Fiction and Detective Fiction" in  Women of the Future:  The Female Main Character in Science Fiction.  Manchester University Press, 2000. 125-135.  PR608 .W65 J62 2000.
Marleen S. Barr.  "Eclipsing the Connecticut Yankee: Female Time Travellers"  in Alien to Feminity:  Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory.  Westport:  Greenwood Press, 1987. 39-58.  PN 3433.6.B37 1987.

Joanna Russ
Sarah LeFanu.  "The Reader as Subject:  Joanna Russ." In the Chinks of the World's Machine.  1988.  (alternate title:  Feminism and Science Fiction),173-198. PN3433.6.L4 1988
Frances Bartkowski.  "The Kinship Web:  Joanna Russ' The Female Man and Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time." Feminist Utopias.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. 49-80.  PS374 .U8 B38 1989
Joanna Russ.  "Recent Feminist Utopias." Future Females:  A Critical Anthology.  Ed. Marleen Barr.  Bowling Green State UP, 1981. 71-89.  PS374.S35 F8 1981
Russ, Joanna.  To Write Like a Woman, 1995.  PS 147 R87 1995
Lucie Armitt.  "Chronotypes and Cyborgs:  Octavia Butler, Joanna Russ, Fay Weldon and Marge Piercy." in Contemporary Women's Fiction and the Fantastic, ed. Lucie Armitt. Macmillan, 2000. 39-65 PN3435 .A73 2000
Maroula Joannou.  "Science Fiction and Detective Fiction" in  Women of the Future:  The Female Main Character in Science Fiction.  Manchester University Press, 2000. 125-135.  PR608 .W65 J62 2000.
Marleen S. Barr. "Female Men (on Russ and Tiptree)."  Lost in Space:  Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond.  Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1993.  59-66. PS374 .S35 B33 1993

Leslie F. Stone
Jane L. Donawerth.  "Science Fiction by Women in the Early Pulps, 1926-1930." Utopian and Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Jane C. Donawerth and C. Kolmerten.  Syracuse UP, 1994. 137-152.  PR830 U7 U86 1994
Robin Roberts.  "The Female Alien:  Pulp Science Fiction's Legacy to Feminists." A New Species: Gender and Science in SF, U Illinois, 1993.  40-65.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            PS 374 .S35 R6 1993

Sherri Tepper
Jenny Wolmark.  "Troubles in Women's Country."  81-107. .  Aliens and Others:  Science Fiction, Feminism, and Postmodernism.  1994.  PN3433.6 .W64 1994.

James K. Tiptree, Jr.
Adam J. Frisch.  "Toward New Sexual Identities:  James Tiptree, Jr." The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write It. Ed. Tom Staicar . New York: Ungar, 1982. 48-59.  PS37.S35 F45 1982
Sarah L. Lefanu.  "Who is Tiptree, What is She? James Tiptree Jr." In the Chinks of the World's Machine.  1988.  (alternate title:  Feminism and Science Fiction) 105-129. PN3433.6.L4 1988
Alice Sheldon. [James K. Tiptree, Jr.] "A Woman Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy." Women of Vision: Essays by Women Writing Science Fiction.  Ed. Denise Dupont,  New York: St. Martins' Press, 1988. 43-58.