Feminist SF studies by author (W)

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Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer A.

• "The Play of Irony: Theatricality and Utopian Transformation in Contemporary Women's Speculative Fiction." Utopian Studies v.13, n.1, pp.114-134 (2002).

Wakefield, Sarah R.

• "'Your Sister in St. Scully': An Electronic Community of Female Fans of The X-Files. Critical Essay". Journal of Popular Film and Television, Fall 2001; available at http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0412/is_3_29/ai_79350861/print

Walker, Nancy A.

• Feminist Alternatives: Irony and Fantasy in the Contemporary Novel by Women Jackson & London: University Press of Mississippi, 1990. Includes discussions of Joanna Russ, Ursula Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison, Marge Piercy, Alice Walker, Fay Weldon, and others.

Wall, Kathleen.

• The Callisto Myth from Ovid to Atwood: Initiation and Rape in Literature. Montreal, Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988.

Ward, Cynthia.

• "Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy"
• Feminist SF: Futures for Humankind. The Internet Review of Science Fiction, v. 1, no. 6 (June 2004). Available at http://www.irosf.com/q/zine/article/10054 . (a review article)

Warner, Marina.

• From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales & Their Tellers. Straus & Giroux Farrar. 0-384-15901-7. $35 1994?
• Six Myths of Our Time

Watkins, Jeff.

• "Sex in Space," In Touch for Men [Los Angeles], no. 26 (Nov.-Dec. 1976). (Review of homosexuality in sf.)

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Janeen Webb.

• "Feminism and Science Fiction," Meanjin, v. 51, no. 1 (1992): pp. 185-198.

Jean Weber.

• "Visions: Women, Gender and SF," Science Fiction, v. 12, no. 1 (#34) (1993): pp. 28-30.

Jane Branham Weedman.

• Editor, Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech Press, 1985.

Jürgen Wehrmann.

• "Jane Eyre in Outer Space: Victorian Motifs in Post-Feminist Science Fiction", in A Breath of Fresh Eyre: Intertextual and Intermedial Reworkings of Jane Eyre, ed. by Margarete Rubik an Elke Mettinger-Schartmann. Amsterdam: Rodopi (2007). Looks at Jasper Fforde and David Weber's Honor Harrington series.

Mary Weinkauf.

• "So Much for the Gentle Sex." Extrapolation Volume 26 (Fall 1985): pages 231-239.

Andrea Weiss.

• Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film. Penguin, 1993. An analysis of the roles of lesbians in film; discusses particularly lesbian vampire films.

Carolyn Wendell.

• "The Alien Species: A Study of Women Characters in the Nebula Award Winners, 1965-1973." Extrapolation, no. 20, 1979: pp. 343-354.

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Wheeler, Pat.

• "Metamorphoses of the Female Subject: Bodily Transformations in Carol Emshwiller's Carmen Dog and Linda Jaivin's Rock'N'Roll Babes from Outer Space. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction v. 31, no. 84 (Spring 2002): pp. 36-46.

Whetmore, Edward.

• "A Female Captain's Enterprise: The Implications of Star Trek's 'Turnabout Intruder'" in Future Females: A Critical Anthology edited by Marlene S. Barr (Bowling Green State University Popular Press: 1981), pp. 157-161.

Whyte, Nicholas.

• "Hugo and Nebula Winners by Gender." (2002-July-7). Available at http://explorers.whyte.com/sf/sfmore.htm; last visited 2003-Feb-18.

WI

Annegret J. Wiemer (Wiemar ?)

• "Foreign L(Anguish), Mother Tongue: Concepts of Language in Contemporary Feminist Science Fiction." Women's Studies Volume 14, Number 2 (1987) pages 163-173. See Also: "Selected Papers from the Eleventh Annual Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film" in Jeanne Ruppert, editor, Gender: Literary and Cinematic Representation (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994), pages 118-131.
• "The Feminist Science Fiction Utopia: Faces of a Genre, 1820-1987." University of Alberta. (DAI v. 53 n.8 2/93)

Shawn P. Wilbur

• "'Cyberpunks' to Synners: Toward a Feminist Posthumanism?" http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~swilbur/cadigan.html

Anne Williams.

• "Dracula: Si(g)ns of the Fathers." Texas Studies in Literature and Language v. 33 (Winter 1991), pages 445-463.

Milly Williamson.

• The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy (Wallflower Press: 2005; ISBN 1904764401)

G. Wisker

• "Demisting the Mirror: Contemporary British Women's Horror", Contemporary British Women Writers (2004)

Connie Willis.

• Guest Editorial: "The Women SF Doesn't See." Asimov's SF Magazine, v. 16, no. 11 (Oct. 1992): pp. 4-8.
• "Women's Lib, 'The Liberation,' and the Many Other Liberations of Science Fiction." Introduction to A Woman's Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women, edited by Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (Warner: 2000) (anthology of sf stories).

Shannon Winnubst.

• "Vampires, Anxieties, and Dreams: Race and Sex in the Contemporary United States", Hypatia v. 18 (2003), pp.1-20.

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Wolf, Virginia.

• "Feminist Criticism and Science Fiction for Children." Children's Literature Association Quarterly (CLAQ) (Calgary, Alberta) v. 7 no. 4 (Winter 1982), pages 13-16. (2009?)

Wolmark

Jenny Wolmark.

• "Alternative Futures? Science Fiction and Feminism," Cultural Studies, v. 2, no. 1 (1988): pp. 48-56.
• Aliens and Others: Science Fiction, Feminism and Postmodernism. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1993/94.
• Cybersexualities: A Reader on Feminist Theory, Cyborgs and Cyberspace
• "The Postmodern Romances of Feminist Science Fiction", in Cybersexualities: A Reader on Feminist Theory (1999); also in Romance Revisited ed. by Jackie Stacey and Lynne Pearce. New York University Press, 1995. (Elizabeth Hand, Gwyneth Jones, Donna Haraway)
• "Cyberpunk, Cyborgs and Feminist Science Fiction", pp. 139-179, in Feminist Contributions to the Literary Canon: Setting Standards of Taste, ed. Susanne Fendler. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1997.

WOLS - WOOD

Wolstenholme, Susan

• Gothic (SUNY Press, 1992; ISBN 0791412199)

Women's Studies

• Special Issue: Feminism Faces the Fantastic: Feminism and Fantastic Literature. v.14, no. 2 (1987). Edited by Marleen Barr and Patrick Murphy.

Women's Studies International Forum

• Special Issue: Feminist Science Fiction, v. 7, no. 2 (1984). Edited by Marleen Barr.

Susan Wood.

• Guest Editorial: "People's Programming," Janus, v. 4, no. 1 (#11), 1978 (Wison II programme book): pp. 4-7, 13.
• "Women and Science Fiction." Algol Volume 16, Number 1 (#33) (Winter 1978-79): pages 9-18.
• editor, with Ursula K. Le Guin. The Language of the Night: Essays in Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin, New York: Perigree, 1979.

WU

Qingyun Wu.

• Female Rule in Chinese and English Literary Utopias. Liverpool University Press. (ISBN 0-85323-570-8 hardback; 0-85323-580-5 paperback)

E. M. Wulff.

• "Exploring Alternative Notions of the Heroic in Feminist Science Fiction" (2008 thesis)

Abstract: In this thesis I discuss feminist science fiction as a literature that explores a variety of alternative social realities. This provides the site to explore alternative notions of the heroic inspired by feminist critiques of the traditional heroic, which come from feminist philosophical, as well as literary critical sources. Alternative notions of the heroic offer a shift in perspective from a specific heroic identity to the events the characters are involved in. The shift to events is made precisely because that is where the temporal is located and dynamic change occurs. Events are where 'becoming' alternatively heroic occurs: in the interaction between a character and the environment.