Dissertations and theses in feminist SF studies

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• Margo Axsom. Border Crossings: The Emergence of Feminist Science Fiction as a Genre. Dissertation.

Chapter 3: Frankenstein Evolves - available online at http://www.sonoma.edu/ar/ar/Staff/AxsomDissertation.html

Discussion of Angel Island by Inez Haynes Gilmore and The Female Man by Joanna Russ.

• Sylvie Berard. (1995) "Je pense "or" je suis. Discours et identite dans la SF cote femmes. D'U.K. Le Guin a E. Vonarburg." [I Think Theref[or]e I Am. Discourse and Identity in SF on the Women's Side. From U. K. Le Guin to E. Vonarburg.]. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, 1995.

• Zoe Brennan. (1994) "Visions of Women, Technology and the Future in Feminist Science Fiction." Submitted by Zoe Brennan to the University of Exeter as a dissertation towards the degree of Master of Arts by advanced study in Women's Studies, September 1994. Abstract available online at http://www.ex.ac.uk/ws/Abstracts/AbBrennan.html Discusses a variety of works including Angela Carter's Heroes and Villains.

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• Carolyn D. Forrey, Gertrude Atherton and the New Woman (1971 dissertation)

• Elyce Rae Helford. Reading Space Fictions: Representations of Gender, Race, and Species in Popular Culture. Dissertation. University of Iowa, 1993. (DAI v. 53 n. 11 (5/93)).

• Rebecca Holden. Shifting Worlds: Visions and Re-Visions of Feminism in Science Fiction Narrative. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1998.

• Kathryn M. Hopson. Re-Visioning Morgan le Fay: A Unifying Metaphor for the Image of Woman in Twentieth Century Literature. Dissertation Abstracts International, Ann Arbor, MI (DAI).1993 Oct, 54:4, 1365A DAI No.: DA9324601. Degree granting institution: U of Southwestern Louisiana, 1993

• 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.

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• 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.

• Julie Linden. "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.

• Meredith Jane Ross. The Sublime to the Ridiculous: The Restructuring of Arthurian Materials in Selected Modern Novels. Dissertation Abstracts International, Ann Arbor, MI (DAI).1986 June, 46:12, 3717A

• Roger Russi. Dialogues with Epic Figures: Christa Wolf's 'Kassandra', Monique Wittig's 'Les Guerilleres', and Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Firebrand.' Dissertation Abstracts International, Ann Arbor, MI (DAI). 1994 Feb, 54:8, 3021A DAI No.: DA9402177. Degree granting institution: U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1993.

• Annegret J. Wiemer (Wiemar ?) "The Feminist Science Fiction Utopia: Faces of a Genre, 1820-1987." University of Alberta. (DAI v. 53 n.8 2/93)

• E. M. Wulff. (2008) "Exploring Alternative Notions of the Heroic in Feminist Science Fiction" (2008 thesis)

Abstract: In this thesis I discuss feminist science fiction as a literature that explores a variety of alternative social realities. This provides the site to explore alternative notions of the heroic inspired by feminist critiques of the traditional heroic, which come from feminist philosophical, as well as literary critical sources. Alternative notions of the heroic offer a shift in perspective from a specific heroic identity to the events the characters are involved in. The shift to events is made precisely because that is where the temporal is located and dynamic change occurs. Events are where 'becoming' alternatively heroic occurs: in the interaction between a character and the environment.