Feminist SF studies by author (K)

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Karr, M. A.

• "Sally Gearhart: Wandering -- and Wondering -- on Future Ground," in The Advocate (San Mateo, Ca.) no. 286 (2/21/1980).

Kasmer, Lisa.

• "Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper: A Symptomatic Reading." Literature and Psychology v. 36, no. 3 (199-?): pp. 1-15.

Kauffman, Linda.

• "Special Delivery: Twenty-First-Century Epistolarity in The Handmaid's Tale." In Writin the Female Voice: Essays on Epistolary Literature, edited by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1989: pp. 221-244.

Kaveney, Roz.

• "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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Keesey, Pam.

• "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

Keinhorst, Annette.

• "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.)

Kelly, Gary.

• 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)
• "Breaking Frames: The Elusive Science Fiction of Joanna Russ." Colloquy, no. 1, 1996: pp. 56-66.
• "Connie Willis's Civil War: Redreaming America as Science Fiction." Foundation: International Journal of Science Fiction, Autumn, 1997: pp. 67-76.
• A Glance from Nowhere: Sheri S. Tepper's Fantasy and Science Fiction. Babel Handbooks on Fantasy and SF Writers: Series 1, No. 5. Newcastle NSW: Nimrod Press, 1997.
• "Loud Achievements: Lois McMaster Bujold's Science Fiction." New York Review of Science Fiction, no. 122 (1998): pp. 1+; no. 123 (1998): pp. 13-15.
• 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.
• "Lois McMaster Bujold: Feminism and the Gernsback Continuum in Recent Women's Science Fiction." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (1999?)
• "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.

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.
• "Woman on the Edge of Time: A Novel 'To Be of Use.'" Extrapolation, v. 28, no. 4 (1987): pp. 310-318.
• "Bibliography of Utopian Fiction by United States Women 1836-1988." Utopian Studies Volume 1, Number 1 (1990): pages 1-58.
• "Consider Her Ways: The Cultural Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Pragmatopian Stories, 1908-1913." Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994): pp. 126-136. --. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia, With Selected Writings (Liverpool University Press) (ISBN 0-85323-499-X paperback; 0-85323-489-2 hardback)

Ketterer, David.

• "The Left Hand of Darkness: Ursula K. Le Guin's Archetypal 'Winter-Journey'", in New Worlds for Old: The Apocalyptic Imagination, Science Fiction and American Literature, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1974.
• "Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: A Contextual Dystopia." Science Fiction Studies. Volume 16, Part 2 (1989): pages 209-17; reprinted in Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992, pp 147-154.

Keulen, Margarete.

• Radical Imagination: Feminist Conceptions of the Future in Ursula Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Sally Miller Gearhart (Peter Lang Publishing: 1991, ISBN 3631427530)

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Khanna, Lee Cullen.

• "Women's Worlds: New Directions in Utopian Fiction." The Journal of Utopian Studies Volume 4 (Spring / Summer 1981): pages 47-60.
• "Truth and Art in Women's Worlds: Doris Lessing's Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five." Women and Utopia Ed. Marleen Barr and Nicholas O. Smith. New York: University Press of America, 1983.
• "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: Univesrity 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.

Richard Kimpel.

• "The Mists of Avalon / Die Niebel von Avalon: Marion Zimmer Bradley's German Bestseller." Journal of American Culture v. 9 (Fall 1986), pages 25-28.

Betty King.

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

Jeannette King and Pam Morris.

• "On Not Reading Between the Lines: Models of Reading in The Yellow Wallpaper." Studies in Short Fiction v. 26 (Winter 1989): pp. 23-32.

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Klarer, Mario.

• "Re-Membering Men Dis-Membered in Sally Miller Gearhart's Ecofeminist Utopia The Wanderground." Extrapolation, v. 32 (Winter 1991): pp. 319-330.
• "Gender and the 'Simultaneity Principle': Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed." Mosaic (Winnipeg, Manitoba) v. 25 (Spring 1992), pages 107-121.

Klasse, Leila.

• "Interview with Sally Gearhart," in Lesbian Insider / Insighter / Inciter, Minneapolis, Minn., No. 1 (Aug. 1980).

Klein, .

• "Le Guin's 'Aberrant' Opus: Escaping the Trap of Discontent." Science-Fiction Studies (1977): pp. 287-294.

Klein, Carole.

• Doris Lessing: In This World But Not Of It (Little, Brown & Co.: Boston, 1999). Biography, 448 pp.

Klinger, Cornelia.

• "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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Knapp, Mona.

• Doris Lessing. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1984.

Knight, Denise D.

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Study of the Short Fiction

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Diane Koester.

• "Joan Slonczewski's A Door Into Ocean: Why Feminist Utopians Might Like Science Fiction" http://math.uwaterloo.ca/~dmswitze/slonczewski/koester.html

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 Kormalý.

• "Feminist Science Fiction: The Alternative Worlds of Piercy, Elgin and Atwood." Journal of American Studies of Turkey, v. 4 (1996): pp. 69-77. Available at: http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~jast/Number4/Kormali.html .

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)

Susan Kress.

• "Politics of Time and Space: The Utopian Vision in Woman on the Edge of Time." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, 27 December 1979.
• "In and Out of Time: The Form of Marge Piercy's Novels" in Future Females: A Critical Anthology edited by Marlene S. Barr (Bowling Green State University Popular Press: 1981), 109-122.

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).

Deborah Kutenplan.

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