Monographs and collections in feminist SF studies

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Nan Bowman Albinski.

• Women's Utopias in British and American Fiction. London: Routledge, 1988.
• Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative edited by Libby Falk Jones and Sarah Webster Goodwin. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990.

Virginia Allen and Terri Paul.

• "Science and Fiction: Ways of Theorizing about Women." in Donald Palumbo, editor, Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature. New York: Greenwood, 1986. pages 165-183.

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Sonya Andermahr.

• "The Worlds of Lesbian / Feminist Science Fiction." Outwrite: Lesbianism and Popular Culture ed. by Gabriele Griffin. London: Pluto, 1993, pp. 106-125.

Susan Janice Anderson.

• "Introduction: Feminism and Science Fiction: Beyond BEMS and Boobs" in Aurora: Beyond Equality, edited by Vonda McIntyre and Susan Janice Anderson. Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Publications, 1976.

Timothy J. Anderson.

• "I Want to Be Your Sex Symbol: Exploring Objectification, Cultural Definition and the Manipulation of Desire Via the Metaphor of Bio-Engineering in Resisting Adonis" in Biotechnological and Medical Themes in Science Fiction, ed. Domna Pastourmatzi, pp. 39-48. 2002.

Joseph Andriano.

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

Pamela J. Annas.

• "New Worlds, New Words: Androgyny in Feminist Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies v. 5, pt. 2, no. 15 (July 1978): pp. 143-56. [On Le Guin among others.]

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Jane Sophia Appleton.

• "Sequel to the Vision of Bangor in the Twentieth Century." In American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction, edited by Arthur O. Lewis Jr., pp. 243-265. New York: Arno Press, 1971.

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Rosemarie Arbur.

• Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne McCaffrey: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (G. K. Hall, 1982) [aka ...: A Reference Guide]

Lucie Armitt.

• Editor, Where No Man has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction. New York: Routledge, 1991. Anthology. Includes:
  • Introduction. Includes essays on Charlotte Haldane, Katherine Burdekin, Maureen Duffy, Gwyneth Jones, Ursula Le Guin, Doris Lessing, C. L. Moore, etc.
• Contemporary Women's Fiction and the Fantastic (2000)

Eleanor Arnason.

• "On Writing Science Fiction" in Women of Vision edited by Denise Du Pont (New York: St. Martin's, 1988): pp. 98-108.

Susan Aronstein.

• "Prize or Pawn? Homosocial Order, Marriage, and the Redefinition of Women in the Gawain Continuation." Romanic Review v. 82 (March 1991): pp. 115-26.

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Catherine Asaro; Dennis Danvers; and Severna Parks.

• "A panel on strong female characters in science fiction" http://www.scifi.com/transcripts/1998/StrongWomenCharacters.html

Brian Attebery.

• The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le Guin (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980)
• "Women's Coming of Age in Fantasy." Extrapolation v. 28 (Spring 1987): pp. 10-22.
• "Gender, Fantasy, and the Authority of Tradition." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts v.7, n.1 (#25): pp. 51-60 (1996).
• Decoding Gender in Science Fiction (New York: Routledge, 2002).
• The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le Guin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.

Margaret Atwood.

• "Witches." in Second Words: Selected Critical Prose (Boston: Beacon Press, 1984): pp. 329-333.

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Nina Auerbach.

• Our Vampires, Ourselves (University of Chicago Press, New Ed edition: 1997; ISBN 0226032027)

Margo Axsom.

• Border Crossings: The Emergence of Feminist Science Fiction as a Genre. Dissertation.

Chapter 3: Frankenstein Evolves - available online at http://www.sonoma.edu/ar/ar/Staff/AxsomDissertation.html

Discussion of Angel Island by Inez Haynes Gilmore and The Female Man by Joanna Russ.