Scholarship and criticism on Marge Piercy

Notice

This is not necessarily a "complete" bibliography of scholarship on this author. Rather, it is a selective bibliography of feminist SF scholarship, or scholarship of particular interest to feminist SF scholars.

Margaret Atwood.

• "Marge Piercy: Woman on the Edge of Time and Living in the Open." The Nation 12/4/1976, pp. 601-602; also in Second Words: Selected Critical Prose (Boston: Beacon Press, 1984) pp. 272-278.

Marleen Barr.

• "Men in Feminist Science Fiction: Marge Piercy, Thomas Berger and the End of Masculinity" in Rhys Garnett and R. J. Ellis, eds., Science Fiction Roots and Branches: Contemporary Critical Approaches. (New York: Macmillan / St. Martin's, 1990), pp. 153-167.

M. Keith Booker.

• "Woman on the Edge of a Genre: The Feminist Dystopias of Marge Piercy." Science-Fiction Studies v. 21 (Nov. 1994): pp. 337-350.

Victor Contoski.

• "Marge Piercy: A Vision of the Peaceable Kingdom." Modern Poetry Studies 8: pp. 205-216.

Carmen Cramer.

• "Anti-Automation: Marge Piercy's Fight in Woman on the Edge of Time." Critique (Atlanta, GA) v. 27 (Summer 1986), pp. 229-233.

Sheila Delany.

• "Ambivalence in Utopia: The American Feminist Utopias of Charlotte P. Gilman and Marge Piercy" in Writing Woman: Women Writers and Women in Literature, Medieval to Modern (New York: Schocken Books, 1983): pp. 157-180.

Barbara Drake.

• "Two Utopias: Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time and Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossed" in Sheila Roberts & Yvonne Pacheco Tevis, Editors, Still the Frame Holds: Essays on Women Poets and Writers (Women Writers on Women Writers). San Bernardino, California: Borgo Press, 1993, pp. 109-127.

Rachel Blau DuPlessis.

• "The Feminist Apologues of Lessing, Piercy, and Russ." Frontiers Volume 4, Number 1 (Spring 1979): Pages 1-8.

David L. Foster.

• "Woman on the Edge of Narrative: Language in Marge Piercy's Utopia." Academic Programming at Chicon IV. In Donald M. Hassler, editor, Patterns of the Fantastic (Island, WA: Starmont House, 1983), pages 47-56.

Joan Haran.

• "(Re)Productive Fictions: Reproduction, Embodiment and Feminist Science in Marge Piercy's Science Fiction," in Science Fiction: Critical Frontiers, edited by John Moore and Karen Sayer, London: Macmillan, 1999.

Elyce Rae Helford.

• "The Future of Political Community: Race, Ethnicity, and Class Privilege in Novels by Piercy, Gomez, and Misha", Utopian Studies, v.12, n.2 (2001), pp.124-142.

Libby Falk Jones.

• "Gilman, Bradley, Piercy, and the Evolving Rhetoric of Feminist Utopias." 116-129. In Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative. ed. Libby Falk Jones and Sarah Webster Godwin. Knoxville : U of Tenn. P, 1990.

Carol Farley Kessler.

• "Woman on the Edge of Time: A Novel 'To Be of Use.'" Extrapolation, v. 28, no. 4 (1987): pp. 310-318.

Margarete Keulen.

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

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.

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 .

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.

Billie Maciunas.

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

Tom Moylan.

• 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.)

Carol Pearson.

• "Toward a New Language, Consciousness and Political Theory: The Utopian Novels of Dorothy Bryant, Mary Staton, and Marge Piercy," MLA Convention, San Francisco, December, 1979. Also: Heresies v. 4 n. 1 (13), (1981), pages 84-87.
• "Toward a New Language, Consciousness and Political Theory: The Utopian Novels of Dorothy Bryant, Mary Staton, and Marge Piercy," MLA Convention, San Francisco, December, 1979. Also: Heresies v. 4 n. 1 (13), (1981), pages 84-87.

Judith A. Spector.

• "The Functions of Sexuality in the Science Fiction of Russ, Piercy, and Le Guin." in Donald Palumbo, editor, Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature. New York: Greenwood, 1986. pages 197-207.