Monographs and collections in feminist SF studies

ABC

• Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory edited by Marleen Barr (2008)

• Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1987. (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy Series, No. 27) Marleen Barr

• Aliens and Others: Science Fiction, Feminism, and Potmodernism (1994)

• Athena's Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors, ed. Frances H. Early and Kathleen Kennedy. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003.

• Attack of the Leading Ladies: Gender, Sexuality, and Spectatorship in the Classic Horror Cinema. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995 / 96. Rhona J. Berenstein.

• The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction / Justine Larbalestier

• Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales / Vaerlie Paradiz (the female tellers of the stories collected by the Grimm Brothers)

• Close Encounters: Film, Feminism, and Science Fiction, edited by Constance Penley, Elisabeth Lyon, Lynn Spiegel, and Janet Bergstrom (1991)

• Contemporary Feminist Fiction and the Fantastic / Armitt

• Contemporary Feminist Utopianism / Sargisson

• Contemporary Women's Fiction and the Fantastic / Lucie Armitt, editor. (2000, Macmillan)

• The Country You Have Never Seen

DE

• Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places / Ursula K. Le Guin (1989)

• Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century edited by Justine Larbalestier (2006) (stories plus companion essays)

• Decoding Gender in Science Fiction (New York: Routledge, 2002). Brian Attebery.

• Deconstructing the Starships

• Demand the Impossible Tom Moylan

• The Encyclopedia of Amazons - Jessica Amanda Salmonson

• Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth (1992) Camille Bacon-Smith

• Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature Donald Palumbo, Editor. New York: Greenwood, 1986.

F

• Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches edited by Donald Haase.

• The Female Hero in Folklore and Legend by Tristram Potter Coffin.

• Female Rule in Chinese and English Literary Utopias / Qingyun Wu. Liverpool University Press. (ISBN 0-85323-570-8 hardback; 0-85323-580-5 paperback)

• Females and Harry Potter: Not All That Empowering, by Ruthann Mayes-Elma (2006)

• The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write It / Tom Staicar, editor. New York: Ungar (1982).

• Feminism and Science Fiction / Sarah LeFanu (also published as In the Chinks of the World's Machine) (1988)

• Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative edited by Libby Falk Jones and Sarah Webster Goodwin. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990.

• Feminist Fabulation: Space / Postmodern Fiction. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992. Marleen Barr

• Feminist Futures: Contemporary Women's Speculative Fiction / Natalie M. Rosinsky (1984)

• Feminist Narrative and the Supernatural: The Function of Fantastic Devices in Seven Recent Novels Katherine J. Weese (2008).

• Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s: Joanna Russ and Dorothy Bryant Tatian Teslenko. (2003)

• Feminist Utopias. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. Frances Bartkowski.

• Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic Linda Badley

• Frankenstein's Daughters: Women Writing SF / Jane Donawerth. Syracuse (1997).

• From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Elizabeth Bell and Lynda Haas.

• Future Females: A Critical Anthology edited by Marlene S. Barr (Bowling Green State University Popular Press: 1981).

• Future Females, The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism Marleen Barr (Bowling Green State University Pres, 2000)

GHI

• Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women's Science Fiction - Lisa Yaszek (2008)

• Gender-Bending Fantasies in Women's Writing: Fantastic in Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman, Nights at the Circus and Jeanette Winterson's The Passion, The.PowerBook by Mine Ozyurt Kilic

• Ghost Stories by British and American Women: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography, Lynette Carpenter & Wendy Kolmar. (1998)

• Gothic Forms of Feminine Fictions. Manchester University Press, 1999. St. Martin's Press, 1999. Susanne Becker.

• Imagination/Space: Essays and Talks on Fiction, Feminism, Technology, and Politics - Gwyneth Jones (2009)

• In the Chinks of the World's Machine / Sarah LeFanu (also published as Feminism and Science Fiction) (1988)

JKL

• Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006; ISBN 0889204977) Annette Burfoot and Susan Lord (editors)

• Longer Views by Samuel R. Delany (1996)

• Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Marleen Barr Includes foreword by Marge Piercy.

MNO

• Die Maskierte Utopie: Feminismus und Science Fiction ISBN 3631487940; 171 pp.; P. Lang. Regina Binder.

• Men, Women, and Chain Saws

• Merlin's Daughters: Contemporary Women Writers of Fantasy by Charlotte Spivack. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987.

• Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (Anchor: 1998; ISBN 0385486812) Kate Bernheimer, editor.
  • Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales - New Edition, Revised and Expanded. Random House 2010: ISBN 0307874524, ISBN 9780307874528. Kate Bernheimer, editor.

• More Than 100 Woman Science Fiction Writers: An Annotated Bibliography / Sharon Yntema (1988, 1990)

• The Naked And The Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror by Cynthia A. Freeland (1999).

• Narrative Power: Encounters, Celebrations, Struggles edited by L. Timmel Duchamp

• A New Species: Gender and Science in Science Fiction / Robin Roberts (1993) University of Illinois Press.

• Notes on Nowhere: Feminism, Utopian Logic and Social Transformation, Jennifer Burwell (1997)

• Oh Well, Orwell: Big Sister Is Watching Herself: Feminist Science Fiction in 1984 (May 1984) Marleen Barr

• On Joanna Russ edited by Farah Mendlesohn

• Our Ladies of Darkness: Feminine Daemonology in Male Gothic Fiction (1993). Joseph Andriano.

PQR

• Partial Visions: Feminism and Utopianism in the 1970s. New York & London: Routledge, 1991. Angelika Bammer

• Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965, Eric Leif Davin. 2005.

• Politics, Persuasion, and Pragmatism: A Rhetoric of Feminist Utopian Fiction by Ellen Susan Peel (2002)

• Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early Modern France by Holly Tucker

• Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction edited by Wendy Gay Pearson, Veronica Hollinger, and Joan Gordon. Liverpool University Press: 2008

• Radical Imagination: Feminist Conceptions of the Future in Le Guin, Piercy, and Gearhart / Margarete Kuellen. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1991. ISBN 3631427530.

• Reclamation of a Queen: Guinevere in Modern Fantasy by Barbara Ann Gordon-Wide (Greenwood Press, 1991)

STUV

• Scheherazade's Sisters: Trickster Heroines and Their Stories in World Literature by Marilyn Jurich (1998)

• Scottish Women's Gothic and Fantastic Writing: Fiction Since 1978 by Monica Germaná (2010)

• The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms, by Helen Merrick (2009)

• Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, by Donna J. Haraway. NY: Routledge, 1991.

• Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life / Joan Gould

• The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines by Mike Madrid. Exterminating Angel Press (2009)

• Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women Anne Balsamo

• To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction / Joanna Russ (1995)

• Twice Upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale / Elizabeth Wanning Harries (women writers of fairy tales)

• Uranian Worlds: A Guide to Alternative Sexuality in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (1st ed. 1983; 2d ed. 1990). Eric Garber and Lyn Paleo.

• Urania's Daughters: A Checklist of Women Science Fiction Writers, 1692-1982 Roger C. Schlobin. (Starmont House, 1983)

• Utopian and Science Fiction by Women ed. by Jane Donawerth and C. Kolmerten / Syracuse University Press (1994).

WXYZ

• Where No Man Has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction. New York: Routledge, 1991. Anthology. Lucie Armitt. Editor.

• The WisCon Chronicles edited by L. Timmel Duchamp (Aqueduct Press, 2007)

• The WisCon Chronicles Volume II: Provocative essays on feminism, race, revolution, and the future edited by L. Timmel Duchamp and Eileen Gunn (Aqueduct Press, 2008)

• The WisCon Chronicles Volume III: Carnival of Feminist SF edited by Liz Henry (Aqueduct Press, 2009)

• The WisCon Chronicles Volume IV: Voices of WisCon edited by Sylvia Kelso (Aqueduct Press, 2010)

• Women and Arthurian Literature: Seizing the Sword by Marion Wynne-Davies (1996)

• Women of the Future: The Female Main Character in Science Fiction / Betty King (1984)

• Women of Other Worlds: Excursions through Science Fiction and Feminism, edited by Helen Merrick and Tess Williams, University of Western Australia Press: Nedlands, 1999.

• Women, Science, and Fiction: The Frankenstein Inheritance / Debra Benita Shaw. Wiltshire, UK: Palgrave, 2000); 248 pp. hbk; ISBN 0333741587.

• Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy (2-volume encyclopedia), edited by Robin Anne Reid

• Women in Search of Utopia: Mavericks and Mythmakers edited by Ruby Rohrlich and Elaine Hoffman Baruch. New York: Shocken, 1984.

• Women and Utopia: Critical Interpretations. Landham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1983. Marleen Barr and Nicholas D. Smith, editors.

• Women of Vision: Essays by Women Writing Science Fiction edited by Denise Du Pont New York: St. Martin's, 1988.

• The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory by Tania Modleski (1988)

• Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Jane B. Weedman. Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1985. Valerie Broege?

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

• Women's Utopias in British and American Fiction. London: Routledge, 1988. Nan Bowman Albinski

• Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes by Lillia Robinson (2004)

• Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias. McFarland, 2005. Dunja M. Mohr.

• Worlds Within Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women / Thelma J. Shinn (1986)