Feminist SF studies by author (R)

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Rabkin, Eric S.

   --. "Determinism, Free Will and Point of View in Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness," Extrapolation v. 20, no. 1 (Spring 1979): pp. 5-19.
   --. "Science Fiction Women Before Liberation" in Future Females: A Critical Anthology edited by Marleen S. Barr (Bowling Green State University Popular Press: 1981) pp. 9-25. 

Raley, William g., editor. After Hours, v. 7, no. 1 (No. 25) (Winter 1995): pp. 42-43. Rao, Eleanora.

   Strategies for Identity: The Fiction of Margaret Atwood. New York: Peter Lang, 1993.

Read, Jacinda.

   The New Avengers: Feminism, Femininity and the Rape-Revenge Cycle

Remington, Thomas. Extrapolation v. 18-19, n. 1 (Dec. 1976): pp. 28-41. Renault, Gregory.

   "Speculative Porn: Aesthetic Form in Samuel R. Delany's The Tides of Lust", Extrapolation, v. 24, no. 2 (Summer 1983): pp. 116-129. 

Rhodes, Jewel P.

   "Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness: Androgyny and the Feminist Utopian vision." Women and Utopia. Ed. Marleen Barr and Nicholas O. Smith. New York: University Press of America, 1983. 

Rigney, Barbara Hill.

   Madness and Sexual Politics in the Feminist Novel: Studies in Bronte, Woolf, Lessing, and Atwood Madison: U of Wisconsin Press, 1978. 

Roberts, Maria Mulvey.

   --. "The Male Scientist, Man-Midwife, and Female Monster: Appropriation and Transmutation in Frankenstein, in A Question of Identity: Women, Science, and Literature, edited by Marina Benjamin, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1993: pp. 59-73. 

Roberts, Robin Ann.

   --. A New Species: The Female Tradition in Science Fiction from Mary Shelley to Doris Lessing. Dissertation, 1985.
   --. "The Paradigm of Frankenstein: Reading Canopus in Argos in the Context of Science Fiction by Women," Extrapolation, v. 25, no. 1 (Spring 1985): pp. 16-23.
   --. "The Female Alien: Pulp Science Fiction's Legacy to Feminists," Journal of Popular Culture, v. 21 (1987): pp. 33-52.
   --. "Post-Modernism and Feminist Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies Volume 17, Part 2 (July 1990): pages 136-152.
   --. "Matthew Arnold's 'Dover Beach,' Gender, and Science Fiction." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Kent, OH). v 33. n. 3 (Fall 1992) pages 245-257.
   --. A New Species: Gender and Science in Science Fiction. (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1993).
   --. "It's Still Science Fiction: Strategies of Feminist Science Fiction Criticism," Extrapolation, v. 36, no. 3 (1995): pp. 184-197.
   --. Anne McCaffrey: A Critical Companion. (Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers Series) (Greenwood, 1996)
   --. Sexual Generations: "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and Gender. University of Illinois Press (?). 

Robinson, Lillian S.

   "Killing Patriarchy: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the Murder Mystery and Post-Feminist Propaganda." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature v. 10 (Fall 1991), pages 273-285. 

Rohrlich, Ruby, and Elaine Baruch, editors.

   Women in Search of Utopias: Mavericks and Mythmakers. New York: Schocken Books, 1984.
   Includes essays by Ruby Rohrlick, Elaine Hoffman Baruch, Diane LeBow, Geraldine Day McNelly, France Burke, Marilyn Bensman, June Jordan, Jill Harsin, Marge Piercy, A. Harriette Andreadis, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Martha A. Ackelsberg, Audre Lorde, Ruth Elizabeth Wangerin, Ntozake Shange, Arlene Sheer, Batya Weinbaum, Jan Zimmerman, Frances Whyatt, Barrie Thorne, Cheris Kramarae, Nancy Henley, H. Lee Gershuny, Susan H. Lees, Tucker Farley, Dinnah Pladott, Eleanor Arnason, Carol S. Pearson, Lee Cullen Khanna, Mischa Adams, Ann Sutherland Harris, Sally Miller Gearhart, and Eve Merriam. 

Ronzeaud, Pierre.

   "La femme dans le roman utopique de la fin du XVIIe siècle." in Onze études sur l'image de la femme dans la littérature française du septième siècle, edited by Wolfgang Leiner (Paris: Jean-Michel Place, 1978): pp. 103-130. 

Rooke, Constance.

   "Interpreting The Handmaid's Tale: Offred's Name and 'The Arnolfini Marriage'." Fear of the Open Heart (1989) pp 175-196. 

Rose, Hilary.

   "Laboratory for Dreams (Feminist Science Fiction)." New Statesman Volume 114 (November 6, 1987), pages 22-23. 

Rosenthal, Rae.

   "Gaskell's Feminist Utopia: The Cranfordians and the Reign of Goodwill" in Jane L. Donawerth and Carol A. Kolmerten, editors, Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994. pages 73-92. 

Rosinsky, Natalie M.

   --. "A Female Man? The 'Medusan' Humor of Joanna Russ." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction. v. 23 no. 1 (1982): pp. 31-36.
   --. Feminist Futures: Contemporary Women's Speculative Fiction. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1984. Studies in Speculative Fiction No. 1.

Rothstein, Mervyn.

   "No Balm in Gilead for Margaret Atwood." New York Times 12 February 1986: C11. 

Rowe, Karen.

   "Feminism and Fairy Tales." Women's Studies 6 (1979): pages 237-57. Reprinted in Jack Zipes' anthology Don't Bet on the Prince (1987).
   "The Female Voice in Folklore and Fairy Tales" 

Rowe, Margaret Moan.

   Doris Lessing. St. Martin's Press, 1994. 

Rubenstein, Marc A.

   "'My Accursed Origin': The Search for the Mother in Frankenstein." Studies in Romanticism Volume 15, Number 2 (Spring?/Sept.? 1976): pages 165-194. 

Rubenstein, Roberta.

   "Nature and Nurture in Dystopia: The Handmaid's Tale" in Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms ed. by Kathryn Van Spanckeren and Jan Garden Castro, 1988, pp. 101-112.
   --. The Novelistic Vision of Doris Lessing. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979.
   --. "Pandora's Box and Female Survival: Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm." Journal of Canadian Studies v. 20 (Spring 1985), p. 120-135. 

Russ, Gary Allan.

   "Algol Profile: Andre Norton." Algol, 14 (Summer / Fall 1977): pp. 15-17. 

Russ, Joanna.

   --. "Creating Positive Images of Women: A Writer's Perspective," Women Writer's Conference, Cornell University, n.d.
   --. "Amor Vincit Foeminam: The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction." In Science Fiction Studies, v. 7, no. 1 (March 1980): pp. 2-15; Indiana University Press, 1972 (1978?). Reprinted in: To Write Like a Woman.
   --. "The Image of Women in Science Fiction." In Cornillon, Susan Koppelman (ed): Images of Women in Fiction: Feminist Perspectives. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1972.
   --. "What Can a Heroine Do? Or, Why Women Can't Write" In Cornillon, Susan Koppelman (ed): Images of Women in Fiction: Feminist Perspectives. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1972.
   --. "On Setting" in Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader edited by Robin Scott Wilson (New American Library: New York, 1973), pp. 149-154.
   --. "Speculations: The Subjunctivity of Science Fiction." Extrapolation Volume 15, Number 1 (December 1973): pages 51-59.
   --. "The Image of Women in Science Fiction." Red Clay Reader, 1971; reprinted in Images of Women in Fiction: Feminist Perspectives, edited by Susan Koppelman Cornillon, Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1972: pp. 79-94; reprinted in Vertex Volume 1, Number 6 (February 1974), pages 53-57.
   --. Introduction to Mary Shelley's Tales and Stories (Boston: Gregg Press, 1975).
   --. "Reflections on Science Fiction: An Interview with Joanna Russ." Quest, v. 2, no. 1 (Summer 1975): pp. 40-49.
   --. "Reflections on Science Fiction: An Interview." Quest: A Feminist Quarterly Volume 2, Number 1 (Summer 1975): pages 40-49.
   --. "Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies Volume 2, Part 2, Number 6 (July 1975): pages 112-119.
   --. "Outta Space: Women Write Science Fiction," Ms., Jan. 1976: pp. 109-111.
   --. "SF and Technology as Mystification." Science Fiction Studies Volume 5, Part 3, Number 16 (November 1978): pages 250-60.
   --, and Linda Leith. "Women in SF: Three Letters." Science Fiction Studies, v. 7, no. 2 (1980): pp. 232-236.
   --. "Recent Feminist Utopias" in Marleen S. Barr, editor, Future Females: A Critical Anthology (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press: 1981), pp. 71-85.
   --. How to Suppress Women's Writing. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983; London: The Women's Press, 1993.
   --. Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans, and Perverts: Feminist Essays. Trumansberg, NY: Crossing Press, 1985.
   --. To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995). Contains introduction by Sarah Lefanu; Author's introduction. Part One: 1. Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction; 2. Speculations: The Subjunctivity of Science Fiction; 3. SF and Technology as Mystification; 4. Amor Vincit Foeminam: The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction; 5. On the Fascination of Horror Stories, Including Lovecraft's; 6. A Boy and His Dog: The Final Solution. Part Two: 7. What Can a Heroine Do? or Why Women Can't Write; 8. Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic; 9. On Mary Wallstonecraft Shelley; 10. Recent Feminist Utopias; 11. To Write "Like a Woman": Transformations of Identity in the Work of Willa Cather; 12. On "The Yellow Wallpaper"; 13. Is "Smashing" Erotic?; 14. Letter to Susan Kppelman. Index.

Russell, Elizabeth.

   "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.