Feminist SF studies by author (K)

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Wendy K. Kolmar.

• Editor, with Lynette Carpenter, Haunting the House of Women: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women 1991: University of Tennessee, ISBN 0870496883. (anthology of essays)

Karr, M. A.

   "Sally Gearhart: Wandering -- and Wondering -- on Future Ground," in The Advocate (San Mateo, Ca.) no. 286 (2/21/1980). 

Kasmer, Lisa.

   "Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper: A Symptomatic Reading." Literature and Psychology v. 36, no. 3 (199-?): pp. 1-15. 

Kauffman, Linda.

   "Special Delivery: Twenty-First-Century Epistolarity in The Handmaid's Tale." In Writin the Female Voice: Essays on Epistolary Literature, edited by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1989: pp. 221-244. 

Kaveney, Roz.

   "The Science Fictiveness of Women's Science Fiction" in Helen Carr, editor, From My Guy to Sci-Fi: Genre and Women's Writing in the Postmodern World (London: Pandora, 1989), pp. 78-97. 

Keesey, Pam.

   --. "The Power of Suggestion" in Horror Film Reader edited by James Ursini and Alain Silver (about Robert Wise's 1963 film "The Haunting")
   --. essay in Darkling Plain on Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Rappaccini's Daughter"
   --. Vamps: An Illustrated History of the Femme Fatale 

Keinhorst, Annette.

   --. "Emancipatory Projection: An Introduction to Women's Critical Utopias." Women's Studies Volume 14, Number 2 (1987), pages 91-99.
   --. Utopien von Frauen in der zeitgeneossischen Literatur der USA (Publisher: P. Lang; ASIN 3820483616; 237 pp.)

Kelly, Gary.

   Varieties of Female Gothic

Kelso, Sylvia.

   --. Singularities: The Interaction of Feminism(s) and Two Strands of Popular American Fiction, 1968-1989. Ph.D. dissertation, James Cook University of New Queensland, 1996.
   --. "The Silver Metal Imagination: Blueprints for Changing Technology in Women's SF". (1994)
   --. "Breaking Frames: The Elusive Science Fiction of Joanna Russ." Colloquy, no. 1, 1996: pp. 56-66.
   --. "Connie Willis's Civil War: Redreaming America as Science Fiction." Foundation: International Journal of Science Fiction, Autumn, 1997: pp. 67-76.
   --. A Glance from Nowhere: Sheri S. Tepper's Fantasy and Science Fiction. Babel Handbooks on Fantasy and SF Writers: Series 1, No. 5. Newcastle NSW: Nimrod Press, 1997.
   --. "Loud Achievements: Lois McMaster Bujold's Science Fiction." New York Review of Science Fiction, no. 122 (1998): pp. 1+; no. 123 (1998): pp. 13-15.
   --, with Bujold, Lois McMaster. "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.
   --. "Lois McMaster Bujold: Feminism and the Gernsback Continuum in Recent Women's Science Fiction." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (1999?)
   --. "Writing New Ones: Myths of Selfhood in Recent Women's Science Fiction," in The Fantastic Self, edited by Janeen Webb and Andrew Enstice, Perth: Eidolon, 1999. 

Kessler, Carol Farley.

   --, editor. Daring to Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Boston: Pandora, 1984. NB. New edition forthcoming from Syracuse University Press.
   --. "Notes Toward a Bibliography: Women's Utopian Writing 1836-1899," Legacy 2(2) Fall 1985: 67-71.
   --. "Woman on the Edge of Time: A Novel 'To Be of Use.'" Extrapolation, v. 28, no. 4 (1987): pp. 310-318.
   --. "Bibliography of Utopian Fiction by United States Women 1836-1988." Utopian Studies Volume 1, Number 1 (1990): pages 1-58.
   --. "Consider Her Ways: The Cultural Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Pragmatopian Stories, 1908-1913." Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994): pp. 126-136. --. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia, With Selected Writings (Liverpool University Press) (ISBN 0-85323-499-X paperback; 0-85323-489-2 hardback)

Ketterer, David.

   --. "The Left Hand of Darkness: Ursula K. Le Guin's Archetypal 'Winter-Journey'", in New Worlds for Old: The Apocalyptic Imagination, Science Fiction and American Literature, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1974.
   --. "Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: A Contextual Dystopia." Science Fiction Studies. Volume 16, Part 2 (1989): pages 209-17; reprinted in Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992, pp 147-154. 

Keulen, Margarete.

   Radical Imagination: Feminist Conceptions of the Future in Ursula Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Sally Miller Gearhart (Peter Lang Publishing: 1991, ISBN 3631427530) 

Khanna, Lee Cullen.

   --. "Women's Worlds: New Directions in Utopian Fiction." The Journal of Utopian Studies Volume 4 (Spring / Summer 1981): pages 47-60.
   --. "Truth and Art in Women's Worlds: Doris Lessing's Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five." Women and Utopia Ed. Marleen Barr and Nicholas O. Smith. New York: University Press of America, 1983.
   --. "Frontiers of Imagination: Feminist Worlds." Women's Studies International Forum Volume 7, number 2 (1984): pages 97-102.
   --. "Women's Utopias: New Worlds, New Texts." Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative. Ed. Libby Falk Jones and Sarah Webster Goodwin. Knoxville: Univesrity of Tenness Press, 1990.
   --. "The Subject of Utopia: Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World." Utopian and Science Fiction: Worlds of Difference, edited by Jane Donawerth and Carol Kolmerten, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1994: pp. 15-34.
   --. "Utopias." The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States, edited by Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995: pp. 892-894. 

Khouri, Diana.

   --. "Potere, impotenza, utopia: la fantascienza di Ursula K. Le Guin, Michel Jeury e Marge Piercy" (Italian) ("Power, impotence and utopia..."), in La fantascienza e la critica. Testi del convegno internazionale di Palermo, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1980, pages 222-231. This essay is about non-transcendent utopia in Marge Piercy's work. Utopia come from a condition of total dispossession, when you dont' have nothing else to lose you can only try to built a real immanent utopia. Khouri says that utopia is aim of life against death and immobility; according to her, utopia is revolution. -- at 

Khouri, Nadia.

   "The Dialectics of Power: Utopia in the Science Fiction of Le Guin, Jeury and Piercy." Science Fiction Studies Volume 7, no. 1 (March 1980): pages 49-61. 

Kidd, Virginia.

   "Agent First, Anthologist Sometimes, Writer in the Cracks" in Women of Vision, Denise Du Pont, editor. (New York: St. Martin's, 1988): pp. 13-19. 

Kimpel, Richard.

   "The Mists of Avalon / Die Niebel von Avalon: Marion Zimmer Bradley's German Bestseller." Journal of American Culture v. 9 (Fall 1986), pages 25-28. 

King, Betty.

   Women of the Future: The Female Main Character in Science Fiction. (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1984). 

King, Jeannette, and Pam Morris.

   "On Not Reading Between the Lines: Models of Reading in The Yellow Wallpaper." Studies in Short Fiction v. 26 (Winter 1989): pp. 23-32. 

Klarer, Mario.

   --. "Re-Membering Men Dis-Membered in Sally Miller Gearhart's Ecofeminist Utopia The Wanderground." Extrapolation, v. 32 (Winter 1991): pp. 319-330.
   --. "Gender and the 'Simultaneity Principle': Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed." Mosaic (Winnipeg, Manitoba) v. 25 (Spring 1992), pages 107-121. 

Klasse, Leila.

   "Interview with Sally Gearhart," in Lesbian Insider / Insighter / Inciter, Minneapolis, Minn., No. 1 (Aug. 1980). 

Klein, .

   "Le Guin's 'Aberrant' Opus: Escaping the Trap of Discontent." Science-Fiction Studies (1977): pp. 287-294. 

Klein, Carole.

   Doris Lessing: In This World But Not Of It (Little, Brown & Co.: Boston, 1999). Biography, 448 pp. 

Klinger, Cornelia.

   "Radikalfeminismus, Science Fiction und das Verhaltnis zur Natur." in Gudrun M. Grabher and Maureen Devine, editors, Women in Search of Literary Space. Tubingen: Narr, 1992. pages 180-197. (in German) 

Knapp, Mona.

   Doris Lessing. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1984. 

Knight, Denise D.

   Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Study of the Short Fiction

Koester, Diane.

   "Joan Slonczewski's A Door Into Ocean: Why Feminist Utopians Might Like Science Fiction" http://math.uwaterloo.ca/~dmswitze/slonczewski/koester.html

Kolmar, Wendy; and Lynette Carpenter (editors)

   Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women (Univ. of Tennessee Pres, 1st ed; 1991; ISBN 0870496883)

Kolmerten, Carol.

   "Texts and Contexts: American Women Envision Utopia, 1890-1920." Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference, edited by Jane Donawerth and Carol Kolmerten, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994: pp. 107-125. 

Kormalý, Sema.

   "Feminist Science Fiction: The Alternative Worlds of Piercy, Elgin and Atwood." Journal of American Studies of Turkey, v. 4 (1996): pp. 69-77. Available at: http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~jast/Number4/Kormali.html . 

Kotani, Mari.

   "The Alien Vagina." Eye, #9 (Nov. 1991): pp. 65-66. 

Kranzler, Laura.

   "Frankenstein and the Technological Future." Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction, v. 44 (Winter 1988-1989): pp. 42-49. 

Kray, Susan.

   "The Things Women Don't Say" in Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy, ed. by Gary Westfahl (2002)

Kress, Susan.

   --. "Politics of Time and Space: The Utopian Vision in Woman on the Edge of Time." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, 27 December 1979.
   --. "In and Out of Time: The Form of Marge Piercy's Novels" in Future Females: A Critical Anthology edited by Marlene S. Barr (Bowling Green State University Popular Press: 1981), 109-122. 

Kristeva, Julia.

   Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. New York: Columbia, UP, 1982.

Kuhn, Annette. Alien Zones Kulyk, Christine L.

   "Consider Her Ways: Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy by Women." Out of This World, Ottawa: Quarry Press, 1995: pp. 159-176. 

Kumar, Krishan.

   "Primitivism in Feminist Utopias." Alternative Futures: The Journal of Utopian Studies Volume 4 (Spring / Summer 1981), pages 61-66. 

Kuras, Pat M., and Schmieder, Rob.

   "When It Changed: Lesbians, Gay Men, and Science Fiction Fandom." Gay Community News (Boston) v. 8, no. 10 (1980 Sept. 27).

Kutenplan, Deborah.

   "The Connections: Militarism, Sex Roles and Christianity in The Rebel Passion and Swastika Night." Unpublished paper (1984).