Scholarship and criticism on Suzy McKee Charnas

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.

Brian Attebery.

• "Women Alone, Men Alone: Single-Sex Utopias". Femspec, v.1, n.2 (2000), pp. 4-15.

Marleen Barr.

• "Suzy McKee Charnas," in Twentieth Century Science Fiction Writers, edited by Curtis C. Smith. New York: St. Martin's, 1981.
• "Holding Fast to Feminism and Moving Beyond: Suzy McKee Charnas's The Vampire Tapestry." In Tom Staicar, editor, The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write It (New York: Ungar, 1982). pp. 60-72, 138-140.
• "Utopia at the End of a Male Chauvinist Dystopian World: Suzy McKee Charnas's Feminist Science Fiction" in Marleen Barr and Nicholas D. Smith, editors, Women and Utopia: Critical Interpretations (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1983), pp. 43-66. Analyzes Charnas' Walk to the End of the World and Motherlines.
• "Immortal Feminist Communities: A Recent Idea in Science Fiction," in Death and the Serpent, edited by Carl B. Yoke and Donald M. Hassler. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985: pp. 39-47. Discussion of Motherlines by Charnas and other feminist sf.

I Cavalcanti

• The Writing of Utopia and the Feminist Critical Dystopia: Suzy McKee Charnas's Holdfast Series. Dark horizons: science fiction and the dystopian …, 2003 - Psychology Press

Suzy McKee Charnas

• Reading and Study Guide: Walk to the End of the World (Volume One of The Holdfast Chronicles). Available at http://www.suzymckeecharnas.com/Study_guide_walk_to_the_end.html

Bill Clemente.

• "Of Women and Wonder: A Conversation with Suzy McKee Charnas." in 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. 60-81.
• "Apprehending Identity in the Alldera Novels of Suzy McKee Charnas: Intersection of Feminist Science Fiction and Postcolonial Studies", in The Utopian Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Twentieth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, ed. Martha Bartter, pp. 81-90. Greenwood Press, 2004.

Anne Cranny-Francis.

• "Man-Made Monsters: Suzy McKee Charnas's Walk to the End of the World as Dystopian Feminist Science Fiction". in Science Fiction Roots and Branches: Contemporary Critical Approaches, ed. Rhys Garnett and R. J. Ellis, pp. 183-206. St. Martin's Press, 1990.

Kathy S. Davis.

• "Beauty in the Beast: The 'Feminization' of Weyland in The Vampire Tapestry", Extrapolation, v.43, n.1 (2002), pp. 62-79.

Denise Du Pont.

• editor, Women of Vision: Essays By Women Writing Science Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Includes essays by Ursula K. Le Guin, Virginia Kidd, Anne McCaffrey, Patricia C. Hodgell, Alice Sheldon (James Tiptree), Suzette Haden Elgin, Lee Killough, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Eleanor Arnason, Joan D. Vinge, Pamela Sargent, and Suzy McKee Charnas.

Joan Gordon and Veronica Hollinger, editors.

• Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture (1997, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press); ISBN 0812216288. Although not explicitly focused on gender, this collection of essays includes essays on Suzy McKee Charnas and Jewelle Gomez, among others.

Maureen King.

• "Contemporary Women Writers and the 'New Evil': The Vampires of Anne Rice and Suzy McKee Charnas", Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, v.5, n.3 (1993), pp. 75-84.

Margaret Miller.

• "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.

Ruth Salvaggio, Marleen Barr, and Richard Law.

• Suzy McKee Charnas: Octavia Butler: Joan D. Vinge. Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont, 1986.

Jennifer Stevenson.

• "A Beauty, a Phantom, and Two Talking Heads: The Psychology of Confinement in Suzy McKee Charnas' 'Beauty and the Opéra'." 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. 82-101.

Interviews

Wilgus, Neal.

• "Algol Interview: Suzy McKee Charnas." Algol, v. 16, no. 1 (#33) Winter 1978-79: pages 21-25.
• "Algol Interview: Suzy McKee Charnas," Algol, Winter 1978-1979.

Joan Gordon

• "Closed Systems Kill: An Interview with Suzy McKee Charnas", Science Fiction Studies (1999)