Feminist SF studies by author (M)

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Mac

MacCormack, Patricia.

• "Becoming Hu-Man: Deleuze and Guattari, Gender and 3rd Rock from the Sun" in Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media V. 1, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2001), available at http://www.cult-media.com/issue1/Amccor.htm

MacDonald, Andrea.

• "Uncertain Utopia: Science Fiction Media Fandom and Computer Mediated Communication." In Theorizing Fandom: Fans, Subculture and Identity, editors Cheryl [verify: or Cherly?] Harris and Alison Alexander. Cresskill: Hampton, 1998. pages 131-152.

Maciunas, Billie.

• "Feminist Epistemology in Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time," Women's Studies, v. 20 (1992): pp. 249-258.

MacLean, Katherine.

• "The Expanding Mind," in Fantastic Lives: Autobiographical Essays by Notable Science Fiction Writers, Martin H. Greenberg, editor, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981: pp. 79-101.

Mad

Maddern, Philippa.

• "The Remythologising of Time: Some Reflections on Women's Science Fiction Writing in the 1960s and 70s," Melbourne Historical Journal, v. 17 (1985): pp. 37-43.

   --. "True Stories: Women's Writing in Science Fiction," Meanjin, v. 44, no. 1 (1985): pp. 110-123. 

Magli, Ida.

   "L'immagine simbolica femminile e le sue costanti mitico-culturali nella fantascienza" (Italian) ("The simbolic female images and its costants mitics and cultoral in SF"), in La fantascienza e la critica. Testi del convegno internazionale di Palermo, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1980, pages 103-112.
   According to Ida Magli, the world of SF is always a transcendent world. The transcendent cannot change the mythic female image, so that Feminism is still not possible. History of woman could start only when the mythic female image is destroyed. -- at 

Mahoney, Elizabeth.

   "Writing So to Speak: The Feminist Dystopia." Image and Power: Women and Fiction in the Twentieth Century ed. by Sarah Sceats and Gail Cunningham. London: Longman, 1996, pp. 29-40. 

Maida, Patricia.

   "Kindred and Dessa Rose: Two Novels That Reinvent Slavery." CEAMagazine: A Journal of the College English Association, Middle Atlantic Group. v. 4, no. 1 (1991): pp. 43-52. 

Malak, Amin.

   "Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and the Dystopian Tradition." Canadian Literature 112 (1987): 9-16. 

Maralani, Vida J.

   "Women on the Edge of Time: Science Fiction and the Feminist Movement." Ex Post Facto Volume III (1994) (History Students Association, San Francisco State University)
   http://www.sfsu.edu/~hsa/ex-post-facto/scifi.html 

Martin, Diane.

   "Three Questions and some Answers" in The Bakery Men Don't See (1991), Madison, Wisconsin, SF3 (1996): pp. 46-48. 

Masello, Robert.

   "The Write Stuff: Sci-Fi Authors on Sci-Fi TV." TV Guide v. 41 (July 24-30 1993), pages 16-19. (interview with Le Guin)

Masse, Michelle A.

   In the Name of Love: Women, Masochism, and the Gothic

Mathews, Patricia.

• "C. L. Moore's Classic Science Fiction" in Staicar's The Feminine Eye (New York: Ungar, 1982), pp. 14-24.

Matson, Elizabeth.

• "The James Tiptree, Jr. Award: When a Man is a Woman -- and It Doesn't Matter." Foundation v. 31, no. 84 (Spring 2002): pp. 82-92.

Matthesen, Elise.

• "Vampires and Aliens: Pam Keesey and Eleanor Arnason" in Lavendar Lifestyles 11/24/1995

Mc

McCaffery, Larry.

• "An Interview with Octavia E. Butler." in Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contepmorary American Science Fiction Writers, edited by Larry McCaffery. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990: pp. 54-70.

McCaffrey, Anne.

• "Hitch Your Dragon to a Star: Romance and Glamour in Science Fiction" in Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow, edited by Reginald Bretnor, New York: Harper & Row, 1974: pp. 278-292.

McClenahan, Catherine.

   --. "Textual Politics: The Uses of the Imagination in Joanna Russ's The Female Man." Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters v. 70 (1982): 114-125.
   --. "Wiscon, then and Now." in Wiscon 20 Souvenir Book, Madison, SF3, 1996, pp. 46-48. 

McEvoy, Seth.

   Samuel R. Delany (New York: Ungar, 1984). 

McGhan, Barry.

   "Andre Norton: Why Has She Been Neglected?" Riverside Quarterly 4 (Jan. 1970): pp. 128-131. 

McGowan, Christine.

   "Reflections on Fannish Matrimony." Girls Own Fanzine, no. 1, Jan. 1973, p. 4. 

McIntyre, Vonda N., and Susan Janice Anderson.

   "Other Works of Interest" in Aurora: Beyond Equality, edited by Vonda N. McIntyre and Susan ... 

McKinley, Robin.

   "Book Review: Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea." The New York Times Book Review v. 95 (May 20 1990) page 38. 

McNally, Raymond.

   Dracula Was a Woman 

McNerney, Kathleen.

   "The Feminist Science Fiction of Margarita Aritzeta." RLA: Romance Languages Annual (West Lafayette, Indiana) v. 2 (1990) pages 488-490. 

McQuade, Molly.

   "Coming Attractions: Several Notable Authors and Artists Discuss Their Current Projects." Publishers Weekly v. 237 (Feb. 23, 1990): pp. 126+. (Le Guin)

McRoy, Jay.

   "Gender Terror and the 'Avenging Spirit' Motif in Japanese Cinema" in Japanese Horror Cinema

ME

Mellor, Anne K.

   --. "On Feminist Utopias." Women's Studies Volume 9, Number 3 (1982): pages 241-62. Discusses Charnas and others.
   --. "Frankenstein: A Feminist Critique of Science," One Culture: Essays in Sciece and Literature, edited by George Levine, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987: pp. 287-312.
   --. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. New York: Methuen, 1988. 

Mendlesohn, Farah.

   --. "Women in Science Fiction: Six American SF Writers Between 1960 and 1985." Foundation, no. 53 (Autumn, 1991): pp. 53-69.
   --. "Gender, Power and Conflict Resolution: 'Subcommittee' by Zenna Henderson." Extrapolation, v. 35, no. 2 (1994): pp. 120-129. 

Helen Merrick

• "The Readers Feminism Doesn't See: Feminist Fans, Critics and Science Fiction," in Trash Aesthetics: Popular Culture and Its Audience, edited by Deborah Cartmell, I.Q. Hunter, Heidi Kaye, and Imelda Whelehan, London: Pluton Press, 1997: pp. 48-65.
• " Slumming with the Space Cadets: A argument for feminist science fiction." Outskirts: Feminisms along the Edge Volume 3, November 1998. http://mmc.arts.uwa.edu.au/chloe/outskirts/archive/VOL3/article3.html or http://www.chloe.uwa.edu.au/outskirts/archive/VOL3/article3.html
• "From Female Man to Feminist Fan: Uncovering 'Herstory' in the Annals of SF Fandom." 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. 115-139.
• compiler. "The Erotics of Gender Ambiguity: A Fem-SF Symposium." 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. 164-183. Includes contributions from L. Timmel Duchmp, Janet Barron, Jeanne Gomoll, Suzy McKee Charnas, Rebecca Holden, Nicola Griffith, Elisabeth Vonarburg, Sylvia Kelso, Brian Attebery, and Kelley Eskridge.

Merrick, Helen, and Tess Williams, editors.

• Women of Other Worlds: Excursions through Science Fiction and Feminism (University of Western Australia: 1999). ISBN 1-876268-32-8 Paperback rrp $29.95 http://www.general.uwa.edu.au/uwapress/uwa_critstudies.html#WOMENOTHERWORLDS Essays from Australian feminist sf critics.

"Science fiction is our society's literature of visualization. The blueprint of our imagining creates the structure of the future, whether we visualize it as repeating familiar patterns or full of new possibilities. And for feminists science fiction offers the space to imagine what new institutions, relationships and culture might look like... Feminist science fiction is a rich space at the intersection of popular literature and feminist thought, where extraordinary other worlds are imagined by writers such as Ursula Le Guin and Joanna Russ. Women of Other Worlds examines this phenomenon, collecting work from all aspects of feminist SF - fiction, poetry, criticism, fan-writing, even a recipe. It presents an international sampler of a vibrant and challenging form of contemporary women's writing." (from the blurb about the book)

• "Modest Witnesses? Feminist Stories of Science in Fiction and Theory" (2007), SciFi in the Mind's Eye]]

Judith Merril.

   --. "The Three Futures of Eve." The Canadian, Sept. 11, 1976.
   --. "Women in SF." Canadian Woman's Studies / Les Cahiers de la Femme, 1981.
   an annotated bibliography
   --. "Better to Have Loved: Excerpts from a Life." 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. 422-442. 

Merritt, James D.

   "She Pluck'd, She Eat" in Future Females: A Critical Anthology edited by Marleen S. Barr (Bowling Green State University Popular Press: 1981) pp. 37-41. 

Meyering, Sheryl L.

   Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Woman and Her Work. (1989)

Meyers, Helene.

   Femicidal Fears: Narratives of the Female Gothic Experience

MI

Miles, Margaret A.

• "'Earthsea Revisited' Revisited': Reply to A. Welton." Voice of Youth Advocates v. 14 (Dec. 1991): pp. 301-302.

Miller, Margaret.

   "The Ideal Woman in Two Feminist Science-Fiction Utopias," Science-Fiction Studies, No. 30 (July 1983): pp. 191-198. compares Charnas' Motherlines with Gilman's Herland. 

Mills, Alice.

   "Burning Women in Ursula K. Le Guin's Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea."

Mixon, Veronica.

   "Futurist Woman: Octavia Butler." Essence, v. 15 (1979): pp. 12, 15. 

MO

Moers, Ellen.

• "Female Gothic: The Monster's Mother." The New York Review of Books Volume XXI, Number 4, March 21, 1974: page 24.

Moi, Toril.

• "L'Utopie feminine: Une etude des romans utopiques de Christiane Rochefort." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Bergen, Norway, 1980.

Monk, Patricia.

• "Frankenstein's Daughters: The Problem of the Feminine Image in Science Fiction." Mosaic Volume 13, Parts 3-4 (1980): pages 15-27.

Morehouse, Lyda.

• "Sherri S. Tepper." Science Fiction Chronicle v.20, n.3 (n.200): pp. 8, 38-39 (Dec. 1998 / Jan. 1999).

Morgan, Chris.

   "Judith Merril, 1923- ." in Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Earth Nineteenth Century to the Present Day edited by Everett Franklin Bleiler. (New York: Scribner's, 1982): pp. 433-439. 

Morgan, Ellen.

   "The Feminist Novel of Androgynous Fantasy" Frontiers v. 2, no. 3 (1977). 

Morse, Geraldine.

   "Reviews." Galileo: Magazine of Science and Fiction, v. 9 (1978): p. 86. Review of Survivor by Octavia Butler. 

Moskowitz, Sam.

   "When Women Rule" in If: Science Fiction, August 1967; reprinted in When Women Rule (New York: Walker, 1972). [Critical review essay; reprinted it is preface for anthology of science fiction on the theme of matriarchies.] 

Moylan, Tom.

   Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination. New York & London: Methuen, 1986. (Studies of Joanna Russ's The Female Man; Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed; Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time; and Samuel Delany's Triton.)

MU

Mulford, Wendy.

• This Narrow Place: Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland: Life, Letters, and Politics, 1930-51 (London: Pandora, 1988)

Murphy, Pat.

• "Illusion and Expectation: The Baking of an SF Award." 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. 342-350. On the history of the Tiptree Award.

Murphy, Patrick D.

• "Feminism Faces the Fantastic." Women's Studies v. 14 no. 2 (1987) pages 81-90.
• "'Gender Politics': Epithet or Accolade? Or, Feminist SF and the Case of Joanna Russ." New York Review of Science Fiction v. 1, no. 10 (#10) (1989): pp. 1-5.
• "Reducing the Dystopian Distance: Pseudo-Documentary Framing in Near-Future Fiction." Science Fiction Studies v 17 (1990) pp 25-40. (on Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale).
• "Suicide, Murder, Culture, and Catastrophe: Joanna Russ's We Who Are About To...." State of the Fantastic: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Fantastic Literature and Film, editor Nicholas Ruddick. (series: Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy: v. 50) (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992: pp. 121-131.

Muscio, Inga M.

• "Mind of Her Mind: The Genius of Octavia Butler." Bitch Magazine, No. 15, Winter 2001, p. 36. (Part of Elyce Rae Helford's article in the same issue.)

Mussell, Kay.

• Women's Gothic and Romantic Fiction: A Reference Guide (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1981).

MY

Myers, Victoria.

• "Conversational Technique in Ursula Le Guin: A Speech-Act Analysis." Science Fiction Studies v. 10 (Nov. 1983): pp. 306-316.