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BA

Bacon-Smith, Camille. Bacon-Smith does anthropological studies of slash fiction & sf fandom.
Badami, Mary Kay.
  • "A Feminist Critique of Science Fiction." Extrapolation Volume 18, no. 1 (December 1976): pages 6-19.
Badley, Linda.
  • Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic
Baer, Barbara L.
  • "Apart to the End? Women and Men -- Different Visions of Nuclear War." Commonweal v. 112 (March 22 1985), pages 167-170.
Baggeson, Soren.
  • "Utopian and Dystopian Pessimism: Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest and Tiptree's "We Who Stole the Dream." Science Fiction Studies v. 14 (1987): pages 34-43.
Bainbridge, William Sims.
  • "Women in Science Fiction." Sex Roles V. 8 (October 1982): pages 1081 - 1093. Statistics about women in science fiction both as authors and readers.
Baird, Lani and Jake Stuiver.
Balsamo, A. [Anne Balsamo]
  • "Reading Cyborgs Writing Feminism." Communication Volume 10 (1988): pages 334-44.
  • Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women
Bammer, Angelika.
Banerjee, Chinmoy.
  • "Alice in Disneyland: Criticism as Commodity in The Handmaid's Tale." Essays on Canadian Writing v 41 (Summer 1990) pp 74-92.
Barbour, Douglas.
  • "The Lathe of Heaven: Taoist Dream," Algol, no. 21 (Nov. 1973): pp. 22-24.
  • "Wholeness and Balance in the Hainish Novels of Le Guin." Science-Fiction Studies v. 1, 3 (Spring 1974): pp. 164-172.
  • "Wholeness and Balance: An Addendum," Science-Fiction Studies 2, 3 (Nov. 1975): pp. 248-249.
  • Worlds out of Words: the SF Novels of Samuel R. Delany (Somerset, England: Bran's Head Books, 1979).
  • "Joanna Russ's The Female Man: An Appreciation" in The Sphinx: A Magazine of Literature and Society v. 4 no. 1 (1981): pp. 65-75.

BARR

Marleen Barr.
  • "Charles Bronson, Samurai, and Other Feminine Images: A Transactive Response to The Left Hand of Darkness" in Future Females: A Critical Anthology edited by Marlene S. Barr (Bowling Green State University Popular Press: 1981), pp. 138-154.
  • "Suzy McKee Charnas," in Twentieth Century Science Fiction Writers, edited by Curtis C. Smith. New York: St. Martin's, 1981.
  • , editor. Future Females: A Critical Anthology. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 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.
  • "Science Fiction and the fact of Women's Repressed Creativity: Anne McCaffrey Portrays a Female Artist." Extrapolation v. 23, no. 1 (1982): pp. 70-76.
  • "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.
  • and Nicholas Smith, editors. Women and Utopia: Critical Interpretations. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1983.
  • Oh Well, Orwell: Big Sister Is Watching Herself: Feminist Science Fiction in 1984 (May 1984) --, editor. Feminist Science Fiction. Special issue of Women's Studies International Forum Volume 7, Number 2 (1984).
  • "Science Fiction's Invisible Female Man: Feminism, Formula, Word and World in 'When It Changed' and 'The Women Men Don't See'", in Luk de Vos, editor, Just the Other Day: Essays on the Suture of the Future. Antwerp: EXA, 1985. pages 433-437. (Series: Intrepid Reeks number 11.) Also as: "Science Fiction's Invisible Female Men: Joanna Russ's 'When It Changed' and James Tiptree's 'The Women Men Don't See.'", in Chapter 5 of Lost in Space (1993)
  • "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.
  • --. "'The Females Do the Fathering!' James Tiptree's Male Matriarchs and Adult Human Gametes." Science Fiction Studies v. 13 no. 38 (March 1986) pages 42-49. Also: "'The Females Do the Fathering!' Reading, Resisting, and James Tiptree, Jr." Rev. & Reprinted in Alien to Feminity.
  • "Permissive, Unspectacular, a Little Baffling: Sex and the Single Feminist Utopian Quasi-Tribesperson." in Donald Palumbo, editor, Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature. New York: Greenwood, 1986. pages 185-196.
  • Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1987. (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy Series, No. 27)
  • "Feminist Fabulation; or, Playing with Patriarchy vs. the Masculinization of Metafiction." Women's Studies Volume 14, Number 2 (1987), pages 187-191.
  • and Patrick D. Murphy, eds. "Feminism Faces the Fantastic." Special issue of Women's Studies, Volume 14, Number 2 (1987).
  • "Blurred Generic Conventions: Pregnancy and Power in Feminist Science Fiction." Reproductive & Genetic Engineering v. 1 no. 2 (1988) pages 167-174.
  • "Food for Postmodern Thought." In Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative, edited by Sarah Webster Goodwin and Libby Falk Jones, pages 21-33. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990.
  • "News from Somewhere." Science Fiction Studies, v. 17, pt. 3 (1990): pp. 401-404.
  • --. "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.
  • "Review of Feminist Utopias by Francis Bartkowski." Science Fiction Studies 17 (1990): pages 401 - 404.
  • "Thelma and Louise: Driving toward Feminist SF; Or, Yes, Women Do Dream of Not Being Electric Sheep." Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction (Essex, England) v. 53 (Autumn 1991), pp. 80-86.
  • "Working at Loving: The Postseparatist Feminist Utopia." Actes du XIe colloque de CERLI, January 26-27 1990. In Eros, Science Fiction, Fantastique Aix-en-Provence: Universite de Provence, 1991. pages 179-189. about Doris Lessing, Pamela Sargent, and Joan Slonczewski.
  • Feminist Fabulation: Space / Postmodern Fiction. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992.
  • Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Includes foreword by Marge Piercy.
  • "Searoad Chronicles of Klatsand as a Pathway toward New Directions in Feminist Science Fiction: Or Who's Afraid of Connecting Ursula Le Guin to Virginia Woolf?" Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction (London, England) v. 60 (Spring 1994) pages 58-67.
  • Future Females, The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism (2000)
  • and Nicholas D. Smith, editors. Women and Utopia: Critical Interpretations. Landham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1983.

BAR

Bartkowski, Frances.
  • Feminist Utopias. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.
  • "No Shadows Without Light. " Feminist Utopias. Lincoln & London : U of Nebraska P, 1989. 133-58. Comparaison of The Handmaid's Tale and L'Eugelionne (1976) by Louky Bersianik.
Bartlett, J. L.
Bartter, Martha A.
  • "Science, Science Fiction and Women: A Language of (Tacit) Exclusion." Etc. v. 49 (Winter 92/93) pages 406-419.
Baruch, Elaine Hoffman.
  • "'A Natural and Necessary Monster': Women in Utopia." Alternative Futures Volume 2, Number 1 (Winter 1979): pages 29-49.
  • "Dystopia Now." Alternative Futures: The Journal of Utopian Studies (Summer 1979): pages 55-67.
Bassnett, Susan.
Bazin, Nancy Topping.
  • "Women and Revolution in Dystopian Fiction : Nadine Gordimer's July's People and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Selected Essays : International Conference on Representing Revolution 1989. Ed. John Michael Grafton. Carrollton, Ga. : West Georgia College, 1991. 115-27.
  • "British Reviews of Shikasta." Doris Lessing Newsletter v. 4 (Winter 1980): pp. 7, 9-15.

BE

Beal, Frances M.
  • "Black Women and the Science Fiction Genre: Interview with Octavia Butler." Black Scholar Volume 17 (March-April 1986): pages 14-18.
Becker, Susanne.
Bedore, Pamela.
  • "Slavery and Symbiosis in Octavia Butler's Kindred." in Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction v. 31, no. 84 (Spring 2002): pp. 73-81.
Bell-Metereau, Rebecca.
  • Hollywood Androgyny (Columbia University Press, 1985). Substantial discussions of films including "Myra Breckenridge" (1970) (pp. 162-166), "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975) (pp. 178-187), and "Alien" (1980) (pp. 209-224), among many other non-sf-al films. The emphasis is on gender roles & transgender issues. Surprisingly readable and not afflicted with post-modern headache-making language. -- lq, 5/14/00
Benson, Gordon. Stephenson-Payne, Phil.
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley: Mistress of Magic: A Working Bibliography (Galactic Central Bibliographies Ser. No. 40) (Borgo Press, 1992)
Benton, Jill.
Berard, Sylvie.
  • "Amazones de tir dans la SF cote femmes!" Tessera North York, Ontario, Canada. v. 15 (Winter 1993) pages 42-55. (in French)
  • 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.
  • "Les nouvelles d'Elisabeth Vonarburg ou la nouvelle au-dela du recueil." XYZ. La revue de la nouvelle, # 43, Autumn 1995.
  • "Qu'ouir, que lire? Gonades et derobades dans l'espace science-fictionnel." Post, # 9 (forthcoming in Autumn 1995).
Berenstein, Rhona J.
Berger, Arthur Asa.
  • "A Personal Response to Whetmore's 'A Female Captain's Enterprise'" in Future Females: A Critical Anthology edited by Marlene S. Barr (Bowling Green State University Popular Press: 1981), pp. 162-163.
Bergstrom, Janet.
  • "Androids and Androgyny." Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism and Film Theory (Rochester, NY), v. 15 (Fall 1986): pp. 36-65.
Berkley, Miriam.
  • "Ursula K. Le Guin." Publishers Weekly (May 1986): p. 72.
Berman, Ruth.
  • "An Arnason Note" in Last Homely Hearth #8 (August, 1981).
Berman, Jeffrey.
  • "Where's All the Fiction in Science Fiction?" in Future Females: A Critical Anthology edited by Marlene S. Barr (Bowling Green State University Popular Press: 1981), pp. 164-176.
Bernheimer, Kate, editor.
Bester, Alfred, 1913- .
  • "Sex in the Year 2500," interview with Jeremy Hughes, In Touch for Men, July 1982. Bester discusses the gay rights movement.
Beswick, Norman.
  • "Ideology and Dogma in the 'Ferocious' SF Novels of Sheri S. Tepper." Foundation: Review of Science Fiction v.71: pp. 32-44 (Autumn 1997).
Bewell, Alan.
  • "An Issue of Monstrous Desire: Frankenstein and Obstetrics." The Yale Journal of Criticism, v. 2, no. 1 (Fall 1988): pp. 105-128.

BI

Bickman, Martin.
  • "Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness: Form and Content," Science-Fiction Studies, v. 4, no. 1 (March 1977): pp. 42-47.
Bierman, Judah.
  • "Ambiguity in Utopia: The Dispossessed." Science-Fiction Studies, v. 2, no. 3 (# 7) (Nov. 1975): pp. 249-256.
Bignell, Jonathan.
  • "The Handmaid's Tale: Novel and Film" British Journal of Canadian Studies v 8 n 1 (1993): pp 71-84.
Binder, Regina.
  • Die Maskierte Utopie: Feminismus und Science Fiction ISBN 3631487940; 171 pp.; P. Lang.
Bitch Magazine.
  • "The Past Decade Has Seen African-American Men Invade the Science Fiction Genre, But What About the Sci-Fi Sisters?"
Bittner, James W.
  • "Chronosophy, Aesthetics, and Ethics in Le Guin's The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia." in No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction edited by Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983: pp. 244-270.
  • Approaches to the Fiction of Ursula K. LeGuin Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1984. (Studies in Speculative Fiction No. 4) (0-8357-2013-6)

BL

Blagden, Nellie.
  • "Otherworldly women (women novelists)." Life. v. 7 (July 1984), pages 112-117.
Blodgett, Harriet.
  • "Fresh Iconography: Subversive Fantasy by Angela Carter." The Review of Contemporary Fiction v. 14 (Fall 1994): pp. 49-55.
Bloom, Harold.
Blum, Joanne.
  • "Return to the Myth in Fictions by Le Guin, Bryant, and Tiptree." in Transcending Gender: The Male / Female Double in Women's Fiction. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988: pp. 61-76.

BO

Bogstad, Janice.
  • Editorial: "The Science Fiction Connection: Readers and Writers in the SF Community." Janus, v. 3, no. 4 (#10): 1977, pp. 4-8.
  • "Octavia E. Butler and Power Relationships," Janus, 4 (1978-1979): pp. 28-31.
  • , with Barbara Emrys. "Science Fiction and Women's Networking." New Moon: A Quarterly Journal of SF and Critical Feminism." Winter 1981-1982: pp. 2-3, 17-19.
Bonner, Frances.
  • "Difference and Desire, Slavery and Seduction: Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis." Foundation no. 48 (1990): pp. 50-62.
  • "Towards a Better Way of Being: Feminist Science Fiction" in Imagining Women: Cultural Representations and Gender, edited by Frances Bonner, Cambridge: Polity, 1992: pp. 94-102.
  • "Review: Aliens and Others: Science Fiction, Feminism and Postmodernism." Foundation, v. 62, Winter 1994/1995, pp. 89-93.
Booker, M. Keith.
  • "Woman on the Edge of a Genre: The Feminist Dystopias of Marge Piercy." Science-Fiction Studies v. 21 (Nov. 1994): pp. 337-350.
Booth, H. Austin.
  • "Women, Gender, and Cyberculture" in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (July/August 2000) (bibliography)
Borghi, Liana.
  • "Liminaliens and Others -- But Mostly Vamps, Dragons and Women's SF." in Critical Studies on the Feminist Subject ed. by Giovanna Covi (1997) (ISBN 88-86135-70-X).
Bottigheimer, Ruth.
  • "Silenced Women in the Grimms' Tales: The 'Fit' Between Fairy Tales and society in Their Historical Context."
Boulter, Amanda.
  • "Alice James Raccoona Tiptree Sheldon Jr.: Textual Personas in the Short Fiction of Alice Sheldon." Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction [London, England]: v. 63 (Spring 1995): pp. 5-31.

BRA

Leigh Brackett.
  • Interview, in Speaking of Science Fiction: The Paul Walker Interviews, Paul Walker, editor, Oradell, NJ: LUNA Publications, 1978: pp. 370-383.
  • and Edmond Hamilton. "Interview with Leigh Brackett and Edmond Hamilton," Science Fiction Review, v. 6, no. 2 (May 1977): pp. 6-15.
Marion Zimmer Bradley.
  • , writing as Miriam Gardner. "Behind the Borderline" in Ladder, Oct. 1960. Autobiographical information.
  • . "Of Men, Halflings, and Hero Worship," Rochester, Texas, 1961 (private printing); Baltimore, T-K Graphics, 1973; revised in Tolkien and the Critics, edited by Neil Isaacs and Rose A. Zimbardo, Notre Dame, Indiana, and London: Notre Dame Press, 1968. [speculations on the possibly homosexual friendship between Frodo and Sam]
  • . "Responsibilities and Temptations of Women Science Fiction Writers," in Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Jane B. Weedman, editor, Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1985: pp. 25-42.
  • . "One Woman's Experience in Science Fiction," in Women of Vision, edited by Denise Du Pont, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988: pp. 84-97.
Braidotti, Rosi.

BRE

Walter Breen.
Brennan, Zoe.
  • "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.
Brewer, Marie Minnich.
  • "Surviving Fictions: Gender and Difference in Postmodern and Postnuclear Narrative." Discourse Volume 9 (1987): pages 37-52.

BRI

Brians, Paul.
  • "Study Guide: Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale."
  • "Study Guide: Ursula LeGuin The Dispossessed."
Brizzi, Mary T.
  • "C. J. Cherryh and Tomorrow's New Sex Roles" in Staicar's The Feminine Eye (Ungar: New York, 1982), pp. 32-47.
  • "Narcissism and Romance in McCaffrey's Restoree," in Patterns of the Fantastic, edited by Donald M Hasser, Academic Programming at CHICON IV, San Berandino, California: Borgo Press, 1983: pp. 136-145.
  • "The Launching Pad," in Extrapolation, v. 23, no. 1 (1982): pp. 3-4, 107.

BRO

Broderick, Damien, and Joanna Russ.
  • "The Broderick-Russ Correspondence." Australian Science Fiction Review, May 1987, pp. 9-18.
Broege, Valerie.
Brooks, Rick.
  • "Andre Norton: Loss of Faith," The Dipple Chronicle 1 (Nov / Dec 1971): pp. 12-30; reprinted in The Many Worlds of Andrew Norton, edited by Roger Elwood (Radnor, Pennsylvania: Chilton, 1974): pp. 178-200; later title, The Book of Andre Norton (New York: Daw Books, 1975).
Browning, Tonya J.
  • "A Foray Into History: A Brief Historical Survey of Women Writers of Science Fiction" http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~tonya/Tonya/sf/history.html
  • "Filling the Gaps Between Hard and Soft Science Fiction: A Case Study of Technofeminist Pat Cadigan." SISSI Proceedings, June 1994. Invited lecture at "The Image of Technology in Literature, the Media and Society." Society for Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery (SISSI) and the University of Southern Colorado, Colorado Springs, March 11, 1994. Translated into Italian by Mafalda Stasi (forthcoming) "Pat Cadigan, tecnofemminismo e fantascienza" MadrePerla Spring 1997.
  • "Protohistories and Protofeminists: Women and Science Fiction" in Hugo Gernsback's Forecast Science Fiction http://www.twd.net/ird/forecast/browning.html

BRY

Bryant, Dorothy.
  • "My Publisher / Myself." Frontiers, v. 4, 1979, pp. 35-39.
Brynen, Rex.

BU

Bucknall, Barbara.
  • Ursula K. Le Guin. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1981.
Bujold, Lois McMaster, and Sylvia Kelso.
  • "Letterspace: In the Chinks Between Published Fiction and Published Criticism." 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. 383-409.
Bullock, C. J., and Kay L. Stewart.
  • "Post-Party Politics: Doris Lessing's Novels of the Seventies." Massachusetts Review 20 (1979): 245-57.
Bulmer, Pamela.
  • "A Call to Arms." Femizine, no. 2 (Dec. 1954): p. 7
Burfoot, Annette, and Susan Lord (editors)
  • Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006; ISBN 0889204977)
Butler, Marily.
  • "The First Frankenstein and Radical Science." TLS, April 9, 1993: pp. 12-14.

BY

Byfield, Bruce.
  • Witches of the mind: A Critical Study of Fritz Leiber (1991)
Byrd, Deborah.
  • "A Permanent Escape from the Underworld: Doris Lessing's Use of the Demeter / Kore Myth in Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five." Paper given at the mid-Hudson MLA Meeting, Poughkeepsie, New York, November 23, 1983.
  • "Gynocentric Mythmaking in Joan Vinge's The Snow Queen." Extrapolation (Fall 1986): pages 234-44.
Byrne, Deirdre.
  • "The Postmodernization of Gender / The Gendering of Postmodernism: Joanna Russ's Extra(Ordinary) People." Unisa English Studies: Journal of the Department of English v. 30 no. 1 (1992): pp. 47-52.
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