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Options for Essay Reports and Book Reports
Feminist Science Fiction (ZSRS40501) Spring 2004 -- Kay Fowler

Updated 1/16/04

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Note: I use SF here as short hand for Science Fiction and/or Speculative Fiction)
Essays for reports are taken from the following collections -- all of which are on reserve in the Potter library.
Armitt: Lucie Armitt, ed. Contemporary Women's Fiction and the Fantastic. MacMillan, 2000. PN3435 . A73 2000
Attebury: Brian Atterbury. Decoding Gender in Science Fiction. Routledge, 2002. On Reserve
Barr1: Marleen Barr, Future Females: A Critical Anthology, Bowling Green State UP, 1981. PS374.S35 F8 1981
Barr2: Marleen Barr, Alien to Feminity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Thought.   Greenwood, 1987. PN3433 .6 B37 1987
Barr3: Marleen Barr, Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond.   University of North Carolina Press, 1993. PS374.S35 B33 1993
Barr4: Marleen Barr, Future Females: The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities. Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. PS374 .S35 B33 1993
Barr5: Marleen S. Barr, ed. Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millenium. Wesleyan University Press, 2003. On Reserve
Donawerth: Jane Donawerth, Frankenstein's Daughters: Women Writing SF.Syracuse UP, 1997. PS374 .S35 D66 1997
D&K: J. Donawerth & C. Kolmerten, eds., Utopian and Science Fiction by Women.Syracuse UP, 1994. PR830 U7 U86 1994.
Dupont: Denise Dupont, ed. Women of Vision, St. Martin's Press, 1988. PS374 .S35 W64 1988
Hollinger & Gordon: Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon, eds. Edging into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultura Transformation, 2000.
Ingram & Patai: Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai. Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals British Women Writers 1889-2939. University of North Carolina Press, 1993. PR478 .R33 R44 1993
Joannou: Maroula Joannou. Contemporary Women's Writing from The Golden Notebook to The Color Purple. Manchester University Press, 2000. PR608 .W65 J62 2000
King: Betty King. Women of the Future: The Female Main Character in Science Fiction. Scarecrow Press, 1984. PS374 .S35 K44 1984
Lefanu 2: Sarah LeFanu, In the Chinks of the Worlds Machine (Alt. title Feminism and Science Fiction), Indiana UP, 1988. PN3433 .6.L4 1988.
Merrick & Williams:  Helen Merrick and Tess William, eds. Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism. University of Western Australia, 1999. ON RESERVE
Roberts: Robin Roberts, A New Species: Gender and Science in Science Fiction, U. Illinois Press, 1993. PS374 .S35 R6 1993.
Russ 2: Joanna Russ, To Write Like a Woman, 1995. PS147 R87 1995.
Staicar: Tom Staicar, A Feminine Eye: SF and the Women Who Write It, Frederick Ungar Press, 1982. PS37.S35 F45 1982.

ER 1. Betty King, "Chap. 1: Historical Perspective 1818 Through 1929" King: 1-37.
ER 2. C. Kolmerten, "Texts & Contexts: American Women Envision Utopia, 1890-1920, in D&K, 107-136
ER 3. N. Jacobs, "The Frozen Landscape in Women's Utopian & Science Fiction" in D&K, 190-202
ER 4. R. Roberts, "Gender in 19th C. SF: The Female Alien and the Woman Ruler," in Roberts, 15-39.
ER 5. Sarah LeFanu, "The Dream of Elsewhere: Feminist Utopias" in Lefanu 2, 53-70.
ER 6. Robin Roberts, "The Female Alien: Pulp SF's Legacy to Feminists" in Roberts, 40-65.
ER 7. J. Donawerth, "SF by Women in the Early Pulps..." in D&K, 137-152.
ER 8. Brian Atterbury, "Chap. 5: Wonder Women" in Atterbury, 82-105.
ER 9. Judith Merril, "Better to Have Loved: Excerpts from a Life" Merrick & Williams: 422-442.
ER 10. Susan Schwartz. "Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ethic of Freedom." in Staicar: 73-88.
ER 11. Marion Zimmer Bradley, "One Woman's Experience in SF" in Dupont, 84-97.
ER 12. Sarah LeFanu, "Who is Tiptree, What is She?..." in LeFanu 2, 106-129.
ER 13. Sarah LeFanu, "The Reader as Subject: Joanna Russ" in LeFanu 2, 173-98.
ER 14. Joanna Russ, "Amor Vincit Foeminam: The Battle of the Sexes in SF" in Russ 2, 41-59.
ER 15. Alice Sheldon, "A Woman Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy" in Dupont, 43-58.
ER 16. Marleen S. Barr, "The Females Do the Fathering!: Reading, Resisting, and James Tiptree, Jr." Barr2: 19-38.
ER 17. Carl Yoke, "From Alienation to Personal Triumph: The Science Fiction of Joan D. Vinge" in Dupont, 103-130.
ER 18. Brian Atterbury, "Chap. 6: Women Alone, Men Alone" in Atterbury, 100-128.
ER 19. Marleen S. Barr, "Suzy McKee Charnas, Sally Gearhart, and Marge Piercy Depict Sex and the Single Feminist Utopian Quasi-Tribesperson. Barr3: 39-49.
ER 20. Wendy Pearson, "Sexuality and the Figure of the Hermaphrodite in Science Fiction or the Revenge of Herculine Barbin" in Hollinger & Gordon, 108-123.
ER 21. Joan Gordon, "Utopia, Genocide and the Other" in Hollinger & Gordon, 204-216.
ER 22. Lucie Armitt, "Magical Realism Meets the Contemporary Gothic: Isabelle Allende and Angela Carter" in Armitt, 160-190

Book Reports
BR 1. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein (1818) (Due 2/9) or Francis Stevens. The Heads of Cerberus (1919) (Due 2/16)
BR 2. Inez Haynes Gillmore. Angel Island (1914) (Due 2/16) or Leslie F. Stone. Out of the Void (1929/1967) (Due 2/23)
BR 3. Susan Ertz. Woman Alive (1936) (Due 2/23) or Judith Merrill. Shadow on the Hearth (1950) (Due 3/1)
BR 4. Andre Norton. Star Man's Son 2250 A. D.(alt. title: Daybreak 2250 A. D.) (1952) or Leigh Brackett. The Long Tomorrow (1955)
BR 5. Naomi Mitchison Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962) or Ursula K. LeGuin The Left Hand of Darkness
(1969) BR 6. Dorothy Bryant. The Kin of Ata Are Waiting For You (alt. title: The Comforter) (1971) or James K.Tiptree, Jr. Ten Thousand Light Years from Home(1973)
BR 7. Joanna Russ. The Female Man(1975) or Suzy McKee Charnas. Motherlines (1978)
BR 8. Sally Gearhart The Wanderground. Stories of the Hill Women (1979) or Joan Vinge. Snow Queen(1980)
BR 9. Vondra McIntyre. Superluminal(1983) or Doris Lessing. The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (1983)
BR 10. Katherine V. Forrest. Daughters of A Coral Dawn. (1984) or Suzette Hardin Elgin. Native Tongue
(1984) BR 11. Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale (1985) or Joan Slonczewski. A Door into Ocean (1986)
BR 12. Pamela Sargent. The Shore of Women (1986) or Judith Grahn. Mundane's World (1988)
BR 13. C. J. Cherryh. Rimrunner.(1989) or Judith Moffett. The Ragged World: A Novel of the Hefn on Earth (1991)
BR 14. Eleanor Arnason. Woman of the Iron People (1991) or Cynthia Kadohata In the Heart of the Valley of Love (1992)
BR 15. Connie Willis Doomsday Book (1992) or Starhawk. The Fifth Sacred Thing (1993)
BR 16. Maureen McHugh. Half the Day is Night(1994) or Nancy Kress. Beggars in Spain(1994)
BR 17. Elisabeth Vonargburg. In the Mother's Lands (orign. pub. in French, Trans. Jane Brierley). or Amy Thomson. The Color of Distance (1995).
BR 18. Kathleen Ann Goonan. The Bones of Time (1995) or Alison Sinclair. Legacies(1995)
BR 19. Mary Doria Russell. The Sparrow (1996) or Melissa Scott. Night Sky Mine (1996)
BR 20. Edith Forbes Exit to Reality (1997) or Carolyn Ives Gilman. Halfway Human (1998).
BR 21. Nalo Hopkinson. Brown Girl in the Ring (1998) or Louise Marley. The Glass Harmonica (2000)
BR 22. Nancy Farmer. The House of Scorpion (2002) or Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveller's Wife (2002)