Feminist SF studies by author (B)

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Raffaella Baccolini.

• "Breaking the Boundaries: Gender, Genre, and Dystopia", pp.137-146, in Per una definizione dell'utopia: Metodologie e discipline a confronto., ed. by Nadia Minerva and Vita Fortunati. Ravenna: Longo, 1992.

Camille Bacon-Smith.

• "Spock Among the Women (Star Trek Fanzine Writers)." The New York Times Book Review. V. 91 (November 16, 1986), pages 1-.
• Science Fiction Culture (Feminist Cultural Studies, the Media and Political Culture) (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000)
• Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.

Bacon-Smith does anthropological studies of slash fiction & sf fandom.

Mary Kay Badami.

• "A Feminist Critique of Science Fiction." Extrapolation Volume 18, no. 1 (December 1976): pages 6-19.

Linda Badley.

• Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic

Barbara L. Baer

• "Apart to the End? Women and Men -- Different Visions of Nuclear War." Commonweal v. 112 (March 22 1985), pages 167-170.

William Sims Bainbridge.

• "Women in Science Fiction." Sex Roles v. 8 n.10 (October 1982): pages 1081 - 1093. Statistics about women in science fiction both as authors and readers.

Lani Baird and Jake Stuiver.

• "Space babe Leia flaunts a rare feminist flair". The Digital Collegian Friday, Feb. 21, 1997. http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/1997/02/02-21-97tdc/02-21-97d05-010.htm (Penn State University)

Anne Balsamo.

• "Reading Cyborgs Writing Feminism." Communication Volume 10 (1988): pages 334-44.
• Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women

Angelika Bammer.

• Partial Visions: Feminism and Utopianism in the 1970s. New York & London: Routledge, 1991.

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Marleen Barr.

• 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: 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.

• "Being Marleen S. Barr / Writing Oy Pioneer!: How to Succeed in Creating Jewish Humorous Feminist Science Fiction Without Really Trying To Be Influenced by Literary 'Tradition, Tradition'". in Extrapolation (Spring 2006), v.48, n.1, pp. 168-189.
• "Blurred Generic Conventions: Pregnancy and Power in Feminist Science Fiction." Reproductive & Genetic Engineering v. 1 no. 2 (1988) pages 167-174.
• "Feminist Fabulation; or, Playing with Patriarchy vs. the Masculinization of Metafiction." Women's Studies Volume 14, Number 2 (1987), pages 187-191.
• "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.
• "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.
• "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.
• "News from Somewhere." Science Fiction Studies, v. 17, pt. 3 (1990): pp. 401-404.
• "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.
• "Revamping the Rut Regarding Reading and Writing About Feminist Science Fiction; or, I Want to Engage in 'Procrustean Bedmaking'", Extrapolation (Spring 2000), v.41, n.1, pp. 43-50.
• "Review of Feminist Utopias by Francis Bartkowski." Science Fiction Studies 17 (1990): pages 401 - 404.
• "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.
• "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.

• Editor. Future Females: A Critical Anthology. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1981.
• Editor, Future Females, The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism (2000)
• Oh Well, Orwell: Big Sister Is Watching Herself: Feminist Science Fiction in 1984 (May 1984)

• Editor, with Nicholas Smith. Women and Utopia: Critical Interpretations Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1983.

• Editor. Feminist Science Fiction. Special issue of Women's Studies International Forum Volume 7, Number 2 (1984).
• Editor, with Patrick D. Murphy. "Feminism Faces the Fantastic." Special issue of Women's Studies, Volume 14, Number 2 (1987).

BART - BAZ

Frances Bartkowski.

• 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.

J. L. Bartlett

• "Paradox or Publication: Women in More's Utopia" 3/2000. http://www.womenwriters.net/editorials/bartlett200.htm

Martha A. Bartter.

• "Science, Science Fiction and Women: A Language of (Tacit) Exclusion." Etc. v. 49 (Winter 92/93) pages 406-419.

Elaine Hoffman Baruch.

• "'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.

Nancy Topping Bazin.

• "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.

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Matthew Beaumont.

• "'A Little Political World of My Own': the New Woman, the New Life, and New Amazonia," Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol. 35 No. 1 (2007), pp. 215-32.
• "The New Woman and Nowhere: Feminism and Utopianism at the Fin de Siécle" in: The New Woman in Fiction and Fact, Angelique Richardson and Chris Willis, eds., New York, Macmillan, 2001; p. 216.

Susanne Becker.

• Gothic Forms of Feminine Fictions. Manchester University Press, 1999. St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Elizabeth Bell and Lynda Haas.

• From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Rebecca Bell-Metereau.

• 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

Gillian Bennett

• Alas, Poor Ghost! Traditions of Belief in Story and Discourse

Sylvie Berard.

• "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.
• "Qu'ouir, que lire? Gonades et derobades dans l'espace science-fictionnel." Post, # 9 (forthcoming in Autumn 1995).

Rhona J. Berenstein

• Attack of the Leading Ladies: Gender, Sexuality, and Spectatorship in the Classic Horror Cinema. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996

Albert I. Berger.

• "Love, Death, and the Atomic Bomb: Sexuality and Community in Science Fiction, 1935-55", Science Fiction Studies, v.8 (no. 280) (November 1981).

Arthur Asa Berger.

• "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.

Janet Bergstrom.

• "Androids and Androgyny." Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism and Film Theory (Rochester, NY), v. 15 (Fall 1986): pp. 36-65.

Jeffrey Berman.

• "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.

Kate Bernheimer, editor.

• Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (Anchor: 1998; ISBN 0385486812)
• Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales - New Edition, Revised and Expanded. Random House 2010: ISBN 0307874524, ISBN 9780307874528.

Alfred Bester, 1913- .

• "Sex in the Year 2500," interview with Jeremy Hughes, In Touch for Men, July 1982. Bester discusses the gay rights movement.

Alan Bewell.

• "An Issue of Monstrous Desire: Frankenstein and Obstetrics." The Yale Journal of Criticism, v. 2, no. 1 (Fall 1988): pp. 105-128.

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Regina Binder.

• 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?"

BL

Holly Virginia Blackford.

• The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature

Nellie Blagden.

• "Otherworldly Women (Women Novelists)." Life. v. 7 (July 1984), pages 112-117.

BO

Janice Bogstad.

• Editorial: "The Science Fiction Connection: Readers and Writers in the SF Community." Janus, v. 3, no. 4 (#10): 1977, pp. 4-8.
• 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.
• "Redressing an Internal Imbalance: Women and Science Fiction, 1965–1980", Collection Building (1993)
• Gender, Power and Reversal in Contemporary Anglo-American and French Feminist Science FictionDetail Only Available U of Wisconsin, Maison dissertation.

Frances Bonner.

• "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.

H. Austin Booth.

• "Women, Gender, and Cyberculture" in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (July/August 2000) (bibliography)

Liana Borghi.

• "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).

Ruth Bottigheimer.

• "Silenced Women in the Grimms' Tales: The 'Fit' Between Fairy Tales and Society in Their Historical Context."

Penny Boumelha.

• "Regeneration: Time, Place and Gender in Fin-de-Siècle Utopian Narrative", pp.123-138 in Nowhere Is Perfect: French an Francophone Utopias/Dystopias. Univ of Delaware Press (2008).

Chantal Bourgault Du Coudray.

• "The Cycle of the Werewolf: Romantic Ecologies of Self-Hood in Popular Fantasy." Australian Feminist Studies, v.18, n.40 (March 2003), pp. 57-72.

BRA

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.

P. Bradshaw.

• "Dystopian Futures: Time-Travel and Millenarian Visions in the Poetry of Anna Barbauld and Charlotte Smith"

Rosi Braidotti.

• "Cyberfeminism with a Difference" http://www.let.ruu.nl/womens_studies/rosi/cyberfem.htm

BRE

Zoe Brennan.

• "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.

Marie Minnich Brewer.

• "Surviving Fictions: Gender and Difference in Postmodern and Postnuclear Narrative." Discourse Volume 9 (1987): pages 37-52.

BRI

Mary T. Brizzi.

• "The Launching Pad," in Extrapolation, v. 23, no. 1 (1982): pp. 3-4, 107.

BRO

Katherine Broad.

• "Race, Reproduction, and the Failures of Feminism in Mary Bradley Lane's Mizora", Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature (Fall 2009), v.28, n.2, pp. 247-266.

Valerie Broege.

• "Women and Technology in Science Fiction: An Uneasy Alliance," in Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1985: pp. 43-58.

Tonya J. Browning

• "A Foray Into History: A Brief Historical Survey of Women Writers of Science Fiction" http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~tonya/Tonya/sf/history.html
• "Protohistories and Protofeminists: Women and Science Fiction" in Hugo Gernsback's Forecast Science Fiction http://www.twd.net/ird/forecast/browning.html

BRY

Dorothy Bryant.

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

Rex Brynen.

• "Mirror, Mirror? The Politics of Television Science Fiction" http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/mepp/exofile/sftv.html . Discusses women, minorities, and queers throughout TV SF history.

BU

Lois McMaster Bujold 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.

Pamela Bulmer.

• "A Call to Arms." Femizine, no. 2 (Dec. 1954): p. 7

Annette Burfoot and Susan Lord (editors)

• Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006; ISBN 0889204977)

Marily Butler.

• "The First Frankenstein and Radical Science." TLS, April 9, 1993: pp. 12-14.

BY

Bruce Byfield.

• Witches of the Mind: A Critical Study of Fritz Leiber (1991)