Scholarship and criticism on Katharine Burdekin

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This is not necessarily a "complete" bibliography of scholarship on this author. Rather, it is a selective bibliography of feminist SF scholarship, or scholarship of particular interest to feminist SF scholars.

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 University Press, 2000.

Andy Croft.

• "Worlds Without End Foisted Upon the Future -- Some Antecedents of Nineteen Eighty-Four" in Inside the Myth: Orwell, Views from the Left, edited by Christopher Norris (London: 1984) (on Burdekin's Swastika Night )

Deborah Kutenplan.

• "The Connections: Militarism, Sex Roles and Christianity in The Rebel Passion and Swastika Night." Unpublished paper (1984).

Daphne Patai

• "Introduction" in Katherine Burdekin's Swastika Night 1985 edition, Oxford University Press, Lawrence & Wishart, London. iii-xv.
• "Orwell's Despair, Burdekin's Hope: Gender and Power in Dystopia." Women's Studies International Forum v. 7, no. 2, pp. 85-95.
• "Imagining Reality: The Utopian Fiction of Katharine Burdekin." Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals British Women Writers 1889-1939. editors, Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai. 1993.

Elizabeth Russell.

• "The Loss of the Feminine Principle in Charlotte Haldane's Man's World and Katherine Burdekin's Swastika Night" in Lucie Armitt, editor, Where No Man Has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction. London: Routledge, 1991. pages 15-28.

Debra Benita Shaw.

• Women, Science, and Fiction: The Frankenstein Inheritance (Wiltshire, UK: Palgrave, 2000); 248 pp. hbk; ISBN 0333741587. Reviews sf written by women from 1914-1968. Includes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland; Burdekin's Swastika Night; Margaret St. Clair; Donna Haraway; Amazons, matriarchal societies & feminist separatism; cyborgs ....