Feminist SF studies by author (P)

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Palumbo, Donald, ed.

   Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.
   --, editor. Eros in the Mind's Eye: Sexuality and the Fantastic in Art and Film (Greenwood Press: 1986)
   --. "The Mechanical Egg: Sexual Mechanisms and Metaphors in SF Films" in The Mechanical God, edited by Dunn & Erlich (Greenwood Press). 

Palwick, Susan.

   "Recapitulating Phylogeny: A Roundabout Review of In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction by Sarah Lefanu." New York Review of Science Fiction v. 1, no. 10 (#10) (June 1989), pp. 1, 8-9. 

Parkin-Speer, Diane.

   "Almost a Feminist: Robert A. Heinlein," Extrapolation, v. 36, no. 2 (1995): pp. 113-125. 

Parrinder, P.

   --. "The Alien Encounter: Or, Ms. Brown and Mrs. Le Guin." Science Fiction Studies Volume 3, Part 1. (1976). Reprinted in P. Parrinder (ed.) SF: A Critical Guide: London: Longman, 1979: pages 148-161.
   --. "Descents into Hell: The Later Novels of Doris Lessing." Critical Quarterly 22 (1980): pages 7-19. 

Patai, Daphne.

   --. "Introduction" in Katherine Burdekin's Swastika Night 1985 edition, Oxford University Press, Lawrence & Wishart, London. iii-xv.
   --. "British and American Utopias by Women (1836-1979): Part I" in Alternative Futures (Spring / Summer 1981, pp. 184-206; a special Women's Issue)
   --. "Orwell's Despair, Burdekin's Hope: Gender and Power in Dystopia." Women's Studies International Forum v. 7, no. 2, pp. 85-95.
   --. "Utopia for Whom?" Aphra Volume 5 (Summer, 1974): pages 2-16.
   --, editor. Looking Backward: 1988-1888. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. 

Patraka, Vivian, and Louise A. Tilly, editors.

   Feminist Re-Visions: What Has Been and Might Be. Ann Arbor: Women's Studies Program, University of Michigan, 1983. 

Pattison, Jim, and Paul A. Soanes.

   Daughter of the Night: An Annotated Tanith Lee Bibliography. http://www3.sympatica.ca/jim.pattison/ 

Paulsen, I.-L.

   "Can Women Fly?: Vonda McIntyre's Dreamsnake and Sally Gearhart's The Wanderground." Women's Studies International Forum Volume 7, Number 2 (1984): pages 103-110. 

Pausacker, Jenny.

   "Beyond the Invisible Barrier: Australian Women Writing Young Adult SF and Fantasy in 1996"

Pearson, Carol.

   --. "Women's Fantasies and Feminist Utopias." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 2, Number 3. (Fall 1977): pages 50-61.
   --. "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.
   --. "Coming Home: Four Feminist Utopias and Patriarchal Experience" in Marleen S. Barr, editor, Future Females: A Critical Anthology (Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1981), pages 63-70. (Revision of "Women's Fantasies and Feminist Utopias," Frontiers 1977 Bibliography I.1500)

Pearson, Jacqueline.

   "Where No Man Has Gone Before: Sexual Politics and Women's Science Fiction" in Philip John Davies, editor, Science Fiction, Social Conflict and War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990), pages 8-25. 

Pearson, Wendy.

   "Alien Cryptographies: The View from Queer." in Science Fiction Studies (March 1999 - special issue on sf & queer theory) Winner of SFRA's Pioneer Award for 1999 (10th annual award; awarded for "the one critical article in a year that does the most to advance SF criticism").
   --. "After the Homo(Sexual): A Queer Analysis of Anti-Sexuality in Sheri S. Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country." Science-Fiction Studies v.23, n.2 (#69): pp. 199-226 (July 1996). 

Peel, Ellen (Susan).

   --. "Utopian Feminism, Skeptical Feminism and Narrative Energy," in Feminism, Utopia and Narrative, edited by Libby Falk Jones & Sarah Webster Goodwin, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990: pp. 34-49.
   --. "Reading Piebald Patterns in Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness." 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. 29-40.
   --. Politics, Persuasion, and Pragmatism: A Rhetoric of Feminist Utopian Fiction (Ohio State Univ. Pr.: 2002; ISBN 0814209106) (272pp.) 

Pegg, Barry.

   "Down to Earth: Terrain, Territory, and the Language of Realism in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed." Michigan Academician XXVII Number 4 (August 1995), pages 481-492. 

Pei, Lowry.

   "Poor Singletons: Definitions of Humanity in the Stories of James Tiptree, Jr." Science-Fiction Studies v. 6 (1979): pp. 271-280. 

Penley, Constance, Elisabeth Lyon, Lynn Spiegel, and Janet Bergstrom, editors.

   --. Close Encounters: Film, Feminism, and Science Fiction . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991. 

Peplow, Michael W.

   "Meet Samuel R. Delany, Black Science Fiction Writer," Crisis, April 1979. 

Peplow, Michael W., and Robert S. Bravard.

   Samuel R. Delany: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography, 1962-1979 (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980). 

Peppers, Cathy.

   "Dialogic Origins and Alien Identities in Butler's Xenogenesis." Science-Fiction Studies Volume 22, Part 1, Number 65. (March 1995): pages 47 - 62. 

Perrakis, Phyllis Sternberg.

   "The Marriage of Inner and Outer Space in Doris Lessing's Shikasta." Science Fiction Studies v. 17 (1990) pp. 221-238.
   --. Spiritual Explorations in the Works of Doris Lessing (Greenwood Press, 1999) (Contributions to the Study of SF and Fantasy, no. 81). Includes:
   Seeing Differently: "The Spiritual Immersed within the Everyday" - Ages of Anxiety: The Diaries of Jane Somers (Virginia Tiger) - Pursuing Difference in The Marriages between Zones Three, Four and Five (Eral G. Ingersol) - Approaching the Apocalypse: Individual and Cultural Collapse and the Seeds of New Vision - Androgyny or Catastrophe: Doris Lessing's Vision in the Early 70s (Nancy Topping Bazin) - Cabalistic Gardens: Lessing's Memoirs of a Survivor (Debrah Raschke) - White Settlers in the Heart of Empire: Visionary Power in Lessing's The Four-Gated City (Cherry Clayton) - Doris Lessing's Prophetic Voice in Shikasta: Cassandra or Sybil ? (Jeannette Weber) - Beyond the Binary: "It Isn't Either or..It's and, and, and, and" - The Whirlpool and the Fountain: Inner Growth and Love, Again (Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis) - "A Question of Wholes": Spiritual Intersecting, Universal Re-Visions in the Work of Doris Lessing (Melanie Hunter & Darby McIntosh) - Considering the Stars: The Expanding Universe of Doris Lessing's Work (Josna E. Rege) 

Peyser, Thomas Galt.

   "Reproducing Utopia: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Herland." Studies in American Fiction v. 20 (Spring 1992) pages 1-16. 

Pfaelzer, Jean.

   --."Feminism as Ideology: Women in American Utopias, 1880 - 1900." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, 27 December 1979.
   --. "Women in American Utopias, 1880-1900: The Impact of Political Theories on Literary Forms." unpublished manuscript, 1979.
   --. "A State of One's Own: Feminism as Ideology in American Utopias, 1880-1915." Extrapolation, v. 24, no. 4 (Winter 1983): pp. 311-328.
   --. "The Changing of the Avant-Garde: The Feminist Utopia." Science Fiction Studies Volume 15 number 3 (November 1988): pages 282-294.

Phillips, Julie.

   --. "Feminist Sci-Fi: A Brave New World." Ms. Volume 5, Number 3. (November / December 1994): pages 70-73.
   --. "Mars Needs women: The True Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr." VLS Sept. 1996: pp. 18-20. 

Piercy, Marge.

   --. "Active in Time and History" in Zinsser, William, editor, Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. (ISBN 0-395-51426-6; pbk 0-395-51427-4)
   --. Foreword to Marleen S. Barr's Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond (1993). 

Pinedo, Isabel Cristina.

   Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997; ISBN 0791434427

Plank, Robert.

   "Ursula K. Le Guin and the Decline of Romantic Love," Science-Fiction Studies, v. 3, no. 1 (March 1976): pp. 36-43. 

Platt, Charles.

   --. "Profile: James Tiptree, Jr." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1983: pp. 26-49.
   --. "James Tiptree, Jr." in Dream Makers, Volume II: The Uncommon Men and Women Who Write Science Fiction: Interviews by Charles Platt. New York: Berkley Books, 1983: pp. 257-272.
   --. "Joan D. Vinge," in Dream Makers, Volume II, New York: Berkley Books, 1983, pp. 211-217. Discusses The Snow Queen. 

Podojil, Catherine.

   "Sisters, Daughters, and Aliens." Critical Encounters: Writers and Themes in Science Fiction, Dick Riley, editor. New York: Ungar, 1978: pp. 70-86.

Pohl-Weary, Emily.

   Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril (Between the Lines, 2002) (biography of Judith Merril)
   Editor. Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks (Sumach Press) (includes "short fiction, cultural analysis, comics & original artwork"; gwbb website)

Poovey, Mary.

   "'My Hideous Progeny': The Lady and the Monster," in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, edited by Harold Bloom, New York: Chelsea House, 1987, Modern Critical Interpretations Series. pp. 81-106.

Porter, David L.

   "The Politics of Le Guin's Opus," Science-Fiction Studies, v. 2, no. 3 (#7) (Nov. 1975): pp. 243-248.

Pred, Elenore G.

   "Tales of Gay Tomorrow: Elizabeth Lynn," The Advocate (San Mateo, Cal.), no. 253 (1978-11-1).

Price, Beverly.

   "Sheri S. Tepper and Feminism's Future" in Mythlore: a Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, General Fantasy & Mythic Studies. v. 18, n.2 (#68): pp. 41-44 (Spring 1992).