Dissertations and theses in feminist SF studies

A-E

• Margo Axsom. Border Crossings: The Emergence of Feminist Science Fiction as a Genre. Dissertation. University of Notre Dame (1997).

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.

• Iva Balic. Always Painting the Future: Utopian Desire and the Women's Movement in Selected Works by United States Female Writers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 2009 Ph.D. dissertation. University of North Texas.

• Sylvie Berard. (1995) "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.

• Jim Bittner. Approaches to the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin (Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1979). UMI Research Press, 1984; June 1989 ISBN 0835715736.

• Janice M. Bogstad. Gender, Power and Reversal in Contemporary Anglo-American and French Feminist Science Fiction. Discusses Role Reversal, Felice Cynthia, Tepper Sheri, Vonarburg Elizabeth, Slonczewski Joan, Butler Octavia). Ph.D. Thesis, University of Wisconsin (1992), 244 pp.

• Amanda Boulter, Speculative Feminisms: The Significance of Feminist Theory in the Science Fiction of Joanna Russ, James Tiptree, Jr., and Octavia Butler (U of Southampton, 1996)

• Zoe Brennan. (1994) "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.

• Nancy Anne Casciato, The Best of All Impossible Worlds: Toward a Feminist Poetics of Utopia. Univ. of Oregon (1996). Barbara Kingsolver, Ursula Le Guin, Sarah Schulman.

F-G

• Emilie Oline Falc. An Analysis and Critique of the Vernacular Discourse in Selected Feminist Science Fiction Novels, Ohio University, 1997 dissertation.

• Carolyn D. Forrey, Gertrude Atherton and the New Woman (1971 dissertation)

• Karin Elizabeth Gardner. Domestic Violence Against Women Within the Horror Literature of Stephen King. (dissertation)

• Theresa Mary Girard. Alternative Futures: The Transposition of Women's Roles in Science Fiction from Print to Visual Media. Wayne State University, 2001. 158 pp.

• A. Glover. "'A complex and delicate web': a comparative study of selected speculative novels by Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing and Marge Piercy" (2008), thesis.

H-K

• Patricia L. Hartman. "The Politics of Language in Feminist Utopias".

• Elyce Rae Helford. Reading Space Fictions: Representations of Gender, Race, and Species in Popular Culture. Dissertation. University of Iowa, 1993. (DAI v. 53 n. 11 (5/93)).

• Susan Beth Hericks. Power and Responsibility: Ethics and Evil in Feminist Speculative Fiction. Drew University (2000).

• Rebecca Holden. Shifting Worlds: Visions and Re-Visions of Feminism in Science Fiction Narrative. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1998.

• Kathryn M. Hopson. Re-Visioning Morgan le Fay: A Unifying Metaphor for the Image of Woman in Twentieth Century Literature. Dissertation Abstracts International, Ann Arbor, MI (DAI).1993 Oct, 54:4, 1365A DAI No.: DA9324601. Degree granting institution: U of Southwestern Louisiana, 1993

• Sylvia Kelso. 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.

L-P

• Justine Larbalestier. The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction: From the Pulps to the James Tiptree, Jr., Memorial Award. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Sydney, 1996.

• Julie Linden. "From Woman to Human: A Radical Feminist Reading of Joanna Russ's The Female Man and Extra(Ordinary) People." Master's Thesis, University of Connecticut, 1995.

• Donna Saucier Maloy. Ursula K. Le Guin and Her West Coast Stories University of Houston-Clear Lake. 2000, 70 pp.

• Toril Moi. "L'Utopie feminine: Une etude des romans utopiques de Christiane Rochefort." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Bergen, Norway, 1980.

• Cynthia Anne Morrill. "Paradigms out of Joint: Feminist Science Fiction and Cultural Logic" (University of California, Riverside, 1997)

Q-R

• Robin Ann Roberts. A New Species: The Female Tradition in Science Fiction from Mary Shelley to Doris Lessing. Dissertation, 1985.

• Alcena Madeline Davis, The Future in Feminism: Reading Strategies for Feminist Theory and Science Fiction, LSU 2002 dissertation.

• Meredith Jane Ross. The Sublime to the Ridiculous: The Restructuring of Arthurian Materials in Selected Modern Novels. Dissertation Abstracts International, Ann Arbor, MI (DAI).1986 June, 46:12, 3717A

• Natalie Myra Rosinsky. Feminist Theory in Women's Speculative Fiction, 1966-81.

• Roger Russi. Dialogues with Epic Figures: Christa Wolf's 'Kassandra', Monique Wittig's 'Les Guerilleres', and Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Firebrand.' Dissertation Abstracts International, Ann Arbor, MI (DAI). 1994 Feb, 54:8, 3021A DAI No.: DA9402177. Degree granting institution: U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1993.

S-Z

• Lorie Sauble-Otto. Writing in Subversive Space: Language and the Body in Feminist Science Fiction in French and English. Dissertation, University of Arizona, 2001.

• Kathleen Erin Sullivan. Suffering Men/Male Suffering: The Construction of Masculinity in the Works of Stephen King and Peter Straub. (dissertation)

• Annegret J. Wiemer (Wiemar ?) "The Feminist Science Fiction Utopia: Faces of a Genre, 1820-1987." University of Alberta. (DAI v. 53 n.8 2/93)

• E. M. Wulff. (2008) "Exploring Alternative Notions of the Heroic in Feminist Science Fiction" (2008 thesis)

Abstract: In this thesis I discuss feminist science fiction as a literature that explores a variety of alternative social realities. This provides the site to explore alternative notions of the heroic inspired by feminist critiques of the traditional heroic, which come from feminist philosophical, as well as literary critical sources. Alternative notions of the heroic offer a shift in perspective from a specific heroic identity to the events the characters are involved in. The shift to events is made precisely because that is where the temporal is located and dynamic change occurs. Events are where 'becoming' alternatively heroic occurs: in the interaction between a character and the environment.