Feminist SF studies by author (L)

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Lacombe, Michele.

• "Feminist Science Fiction: A Commentary." The Sphinx: A Magazine of Literature and Society (Regina, Saskatchewan) v. 4 n. 2 (14) (1982) pp. 138-143.

Lague, Louise.

• "Back to the Present." People Weekly v. 36 (Nov. 18, 1991): pp. 69+. (about Le Guin)

Landon, Brooks.

• "Eve at the End of the World: Sexuality and the Reversal of Expectations in Novels by Joanna Russ, Angela Carter, and Thomas Berger." Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature, ed. Donald Palumbo. New York: Greenwood, 1986: pp. 61-74.

Lanser, Susan S.

• "Feminism's 'Yellow Wallpaper' and the Transformation of Literature," Lecture, Feb. 11, 1988, at the Univ. of Maryland at College Park.
• "Feminist Criticism, The Yellow Wallpaper, and the Politics of Color in America." Feminist Studies v. 15, no. 3 (Fall 1989): pp. 415-441.

Lant, Kathleen Margaret.

• Imagining the Worst: Stephen King and the Representation of Women

Justine Larbalestier.

• The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction: From the Pulps to the James Tiptree, Jr., Memorial Award. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Sydney, 1996.
• "Ending the Battle of the Sexes? Hermaphroditism in Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon and 'Motherhood Etc.' by L. Timmel Duchamp," New York Review of Science Fiction, no. 101, Jan. 1997: pp. 14-17.
• "Tiptree Stories." 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. 354-369.
• Opulent Darkness: The Writings of Tanith Lee. Babel Handbooks on Fantasy and SF Writers. New Lambton, New South Wales: Nimrod, 1999; Newcastle: Nimrod Books, 1999?.
• The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction (2002; Wesleyan Univ. Press; ISBN 081956527X)

Laskowski, George, and Jan Brown.

• "Interview with Joan D. Vinge," (Minicon, 1979), in Lan's Lantern, #12 (April 1983), Bloomfield Hills, MI 48013, pp. 13-24.

Law, Richard G.

• "Science Fiction Women: Victims, Rebels, Heroes." In Donald M. Hassler, editor, Patterns of the Fantastic (Academic Programming at Chicon IV.) (Island, WA: Starmont House, 1983), pages 11-20.
• "Joanna Russ and the 'Literature of Exhaustion.'" Extrapolation v. 23 (v. 25?) (Summer 1984): pages 146-156.

Leclaire, Jacques.

• "Feminisme et dystopie dans The Handmaid's Tale de Margaret Atwood." Etudes canadiennes / Canadian Studies v 21 (1986) t. 1 pp 299-308.

Lefanu, Sarah.

• "Robots and Romance: The Science Fiction and Fantasy of Tanith Lee" in Susannah Radstone, editor, Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1988), pp. 121-136.
• Feminism and Science Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Originally published as In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction. London: Women's Press, 1988.
• "Popular Writing and Feminist Intervention in Science Fiction" in D. Longhurst (ed.) Gender, Genre and Narrative Pleasure, London: Unwin Hyman (1989): pages 177-91.
• "Who is Tiptree? What is She?" Chapter 11 of Feminism and Science Fiction. Bloomington, Indiana University Press (1989): pp. 105-129.
• "Sex, Sub-Atomic Particles, and Sociology" in Lucie Armitt, editor, Where No Man Has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction (London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 178-185.
• "Difference and Sexual Politics in Naomi Mitchison's Solution Three." Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference, edited by Jane L. Donawerth and Carol A. Kolmerten (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1994): pp. 153-165.

Le Guin, Ursula K.

• Response. SF Commentary 26, April 1972, pages 90-92. Response to Lem's comments and review of The Left Hand of Darkness in November 1971 issue.
• "Science Fiction and the Future of Anarchy," interview with Charles Bigelow and J. McMahon, Oregon Times (Dec. 1974): pp. 24-29.
• "Vertex Interviews Ursula K. Le Guin," with Gene Van Troyer, Vertex 2 (Dec. 1974).
• "Ursula K. Le Guin Interview: Tricks, Anthropology Create New Worlds," with Barry Barth, Portland Scribe 4 (May 17-23, 1975): pp. 8-9.
• "American SF and the Other," Science-Fiction Studies, no. 7 (Nov. 1975): pp. 208-210.
• "A Response to the Le Guin Issue," Science-Fiction Studies 3 (March 1976): pp. 43-46.
• "Ursula K. Le Guin: An Interview," with Paul Walker. Luna Monthly 63 (March 1976): pp. 1-7.
• "The Space Crone," The Co-Evolution Quarterly v. 10 (Summer 1976): pp. 108-111.
• "Creating Realistic Utopias: 'The Obvious Trouble with Anarchism is Neighbours'" with Win McCormak and Anne Mendel, Seven Days (April 11, 1977): pp. 38-40. (interview)
• The Language of the Night: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy. New York: Putnam, 1979.
• Interview: "The Lathe of Heaven," Horizon (Jan. 1980): pp. 33-36.
• "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Writes the Book." The New York Times Book Review v. 94 (January 22, 1989), pages 1+ .
• Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
• "The World of Science Fiction (Women Authors)." Ms. Volume 1, no. 3 (November / December 1990), pages 52-54.
• "A Citizen of Mondath" in The Profession of Science Fiction: SF Writers on their Craft and Ideas, edited by Maxim Jakubowski and Edward James, Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1992: pp. 73-77.
• "A Conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin." Para-Doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres, v. 1, no. 1 (1995): pp. 39-57.
• Many other essays, prose, and reviews of sf, feminist and otherwise. See the Le Guin Bibliography for more detailed citations.

Lehman, Steven.

• "The Motherless Child in Science Fiction: Frankenstein and Moreau." in Science-Fiction Studies, #56, v. 19, Part 1 (March 1992), pages 49-58.

Leith, Linda.

• "Marion Zimmer Bradley and Darkover," Science Fiction Studies, v. 7, no. 1 (#20) (March 1980): pp. 28-35.
• "Women and Science Fiction," Science Fiction Studies, v. 10 (1983): pp. 247-250.
• "Canopus in Limbo," Science-Fiction Studies, (1986): pages 320-321.

Lem, Stanislaw.

• SF Commentary 24, November 1971, pages 22-24. Review of Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness. Originally published in Quarber Merkur no. 25 and translated from the German by Franz Rottensteiner and revised by Bruce Gillespie.

Leman, Joy.

• "Wise Scientists and Female Androids: Class and Gender in Science Fiction" in John Corner, editor, Popular Television in Britain: Studies in Cultural History (London: British Film Institute, 1991), pp. 108-124.

Lenne, Gerard.

• "Monster and Victim: Women in the Horror Film." In Sexual Stratagems, ed. Patricia Erens.

Lerner, Frederick Andrew.

• "The Newcomer (Fantasy Fiction Writer Esther M. Friesner)." Voice of Youth Advocates v. 14 (December 1991), page 294.

Levine, George, and U. C. Knoepflmacher, editors.

• The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

Levy, Michael.

• "Green SF and Eco Feminism." Originally published in IAFA Newsletter, Spring 1989 issues. Reprinted in Robert Collins and Robert Latham, editors, Science Fiction and Fantasy book Review Annual, 1989 Edition (Westport, CN: Meckler, 1990). "Review article of recent work by Octavia Butler, Nancy Kress, Pamela Sargent, and Sheri S. Tepper" -- ML.
• Natalie Babbitt. (Boston: Twayne, 1991). "This is the first book-length study of this award-winning children's fantasy writer, a number of whose books have feminist content" -- ML.
• "Young Adult Science Fiction as Bildungsroman" forthcoming in C. W. Sullivan III, editor, Young Adult Science Fiction, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. "This article discusses the differences between the traditional (male) bildungsroman and the more recently defined female bildungsroman and applies both to YA SF. Among the authors whose works are analyzed are H. M. Hoover, Louise Lawrence and Monica Hughes" -- ML.

Lewes, Darby.

• "Gynotopia: A Checklist of Nineteenth Century Utopias by American Women," Legacy 6(2) Fall 1989: pages 29-41.
• Dream Revisionaries: Gender and Genre in Women's Utopian Fiction, 1870-1920. (1995)

Lieberman, Marcia R.

• "'Some Day My Prince Will Come': Female Acculturation Through the Fairy Tale," College English Volume 34 (December 1972), pages 383-395. Reprinted in Jack Zipes' anthology, Don't Bet on the Prince.

Linden, Julie.

   "From Woman to Human: A Radical Feminist Reading of Joanna Russ's The Female Man and Extra(Ordinary) People." Master's Thesis, University of Connecticut, 1995. 

Literature, Interpretation, Theory

• "Margaret Atwood Issue." volume 6 number 3/4 (1995)

Love, Rosaleen.

• "The Onion Skin Theory of Identity, The Paint Pot Theory of Gender, and the Blu-tack Theory of Position." 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. 319-328.

Lowe-Evans, Mary, editor.

• Critical Essays on Mary Shelley (G. K. Hall, New York; Prentice Hall, London; 1998)

Luckhurst, Roger.

• "'Horror and Beauty in Rare Combination': The Miscegenate Fictions of Octavia Butler." Women: A Cultural Review, v. 7 no. 1 (1996): pp. 28-38.

Lurie, Alison.

• "Fairy Tale Liberation," The New York Times Book Review, v. 15, n.11 (Dec. 17, 1970).

Lynn, Elizabeth.

• Interview: Elizabeth Lynn, A New Spring. Locus (Oct. 1997, #441).