Feminist SF studies by author (K)

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D. Kakoudaki

• "Pinup and cyborg: exaggerated gender and artificial intelligence", in Future Females, The Next Generation

Roz Kaveney.

• "The Science Fictiveness of Women's Science Fiction" in Helen Carr, editor, From My Guy to Sci-Fi: Genre and Women's Writing in the Postmodern World (London: Pandora, 1989), pp. 78-97.

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Pam Keesey.

• "The Power of Suggestion" in Horror Film Reader edited by James Ursini and Alain Silver (about Robert Wise's 1963 film "The Haunting")
• Essay in Darkling Plain on Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Rappaccini's Daughter"
• Vamps: An Illustrated History of the Femme Fatale

Annette Keinhorst.

• "Emancipatory Projection: An Introduction to Women's Critical Utopias." Women's Studies Volume 14, Number 2 (1987), pages 91-99.
• Utopien von Frauen in der zeitgeneossischen Literatur der USA (Publisher: P. Lang; ASIN 3820483616; 237 pp.)

Gary Kelly.

• Varieties of Female Gothic

Sylvia Kelso.

• Singularities: The Interaction of Feminism(s) and Two Strands of Popular American Fiction, 1968-1989. Ph.D. dissertation, James Cook University of New Queensland, 1996.
• "The Silver Metal Imagination: Blueprints for Changing Technology in Women's SF". (1994)
• with Lois McMaster Bujold. "Letterspace: In the Chinks Between Published Fiction and Published Criticism." 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. 383-409.
• "Writing New Ones: Myths of Selfhood in Recent Women's Science Fiction," in The Fantastic Self, edited by Janeen Webb and Andrew Enstice, Perth: Eidolon, 1999.

Sarah Kember.

• Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life. London: Routledge, 2002.

Carol Farley Kessler.

• Editor. Daring to Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Boston: Pandora, 1984. NB. New edition forthcoming from Syracuse University Press.
• "Notes Toward a Bibliography: Women's Utopian Writing 1836-1899," Legacy 2(2) Fall 1985: 67-71.
• "Bibliography of Utopian Fiction by United States Women 1836-1988." Utopian Studies Volume 1, Number 1 (1990): pages 1-58.

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Lee Cullen Khanna.

• "Women's Worlds: New Directions in Utopian Fiction." The Journal of Utopian Studies Volume 4 (Spring / Summer 1981): pages 47-60.
• "Frontiers of Imagination: Feminist Worlds." Women's Studies International Forum Volume 7, number 2 (1984): pages 97-102.
• "Women's Utopias: New Worlds, New Texts." Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative. Ed. Libby Falk Jones and Sarah Webster Goodwin. Knoxville: University of Tenness Press, 1990.
• "The Subject of Utopia: Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World." Utopian and Science Fiction: Worlds of Difference, edited by Jane Donawerth and Carol Kolmerten, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1994: pp. 15-34.
• "Utopias." The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States, edited by Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995: pp. 892-894.

Diana Khouri.

• "Potere, impotenza, utopia: la fantascienza di Ursula K. Le Guin, Michel Jeury e Marge Piercy" (Italian) ("Power, impotence and utopia..."), in La fantascienza e la critica. Testi del convegno internazionale di Palermo, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1980, pages 222-231. This essay is about non-transcendent utopia in Marge Piercy's work. Utopia come from a condition of total dispossession, when you dont' have nothing else to lose you can only try to built a real immanent utopia. Khouri says that utopia is aim of life against death and immobility; according to her, utopia is revolution. -- at

Nadia Khouri.

• "The Dialectics of Power: Utopia in the Science Fiction of Le Guin, Jeury and Piercy." Science Fiction Studies Volume 7, no. 1 (March 1980): pages 49-61.

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Virginia Kidd.

• "Agent First, Anthologist Sometimes, Writer in the Cracks" in Women of Vision, Denise Du Pont, editor. (New York: St. Martin's, 1988): pp. 13-19.

Lee Killough.

• "Cross-Dressing as a Male Narrator" ... … Daughters: Women Writing Science Fiction (1997)

Betty King.

• Women of the Future: The Female Main Character in Science Fiction. (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1984).

Sally L. Kitch.

• Higher Ground: From Utopianism to Realism in American Feminist Thought and Theory (2000). University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-43856-2 (cloth). ISBN 0-226-43857-0 (paper).

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Cornelia Klinger.

• "Radikalfeminismus, Science Fiction und das Verhaltnis zur Natur." in Gudrun M. Grabher and Maureen Devine, editors, Women in Search of Literary Space. Tubingen: Narr, 1992. pages 180-197. (in German)

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Madonna Kolbenschlag.

• Kiss Sleeping Beauty Good-Bye: Breaking the Spell of Feminine Myths and Models

Wendy K. Kolmar.

• Editor, with Lynette Carpenter, Haunting the House of Women: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women 1991: University of Tennessee, ISBN 0870496883. (anthology of essays)

Carol Kolmerten.

• "Texts and Contexts: American Women Envision Utopia, 1890-1920." Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference, edited by Jane Donawerth and Carol Kolmerten, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994: pp. 107-125.

Sema Kormali.

• "Feminist Science Fiction: The Alternative Worlds of Piercy, Elgin, and Atwood", Journal of American Studies of Turkey (Fall 1996), v.4, pp. 69-77.

Mari Kotani.

• "The Alien Vagina." Eye, #9 (Nov. 1991): pp. 65-66.

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Laura Kranzler.

• "Frankenstein and the Technological Future." Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction, v. 44 (Winter 1988-1989): pp. 42-49.

Susan Kray.

• "The Things Women Don't Say" in Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy, ed. by Gary Westfahl (2002)

Julia Kristeva.

• Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. New York: Columbia, UP, 1982.

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Annette Kuhn.

• Alien Zones

Christine L. Kulyk

• "Consider Her Ways: Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy by Women." Out of This World, Ottawa: Quarry Press, 1995: pp. 159-176.

Krishan Kumar.

• "Primitivism in Feminist Utopias." Alternative Futures: The Journal of Utopian Studies Volume 4 (Spring / Summer 1981), pages 61-66.

Pat M. Kuras, and Rob Schmieder.

• "When It Changed: Lesbians, Gay Men, and Science Fiction Fandom." Gay Community News (Boston) v. 8, no. 10 (1980 Sept. 27).