Feminist SF studies by author (L)

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Francis Lacassin.

• "Out of Oblivion: Alice Guy Blaché", Sight and Sound, v.40 (1971), pp.151-154.

Michele Lacombe.

• "Feminist Science Fiction: A Commentary." The Sphinx: A Magazine of Literature and Society (Regina, Saskatchewan) v. 4 n. 2 (14) (1982) pp. 138-143.

Louise Lague.

• "Back to the Present." People Weekly v. 36 (Nov. 18, 1991): pp. 69+. (about Le Guin)

Mukti Lakhi.

• "An Alternative Feminist Modernity: Fantastic Utopia and the Quest for Home in Sultana's Dream" in Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English (Sept. 2006), v.14.

Brooks Landon.

• "Eve at the End of the World: Sexuality and the Reversal of Expectations in Novels by Joanna Russ, Angela Carter, and Thomas Berger." Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature, ed. Donald Palumbo. New York: Greenwood, 1986: pp. 61-74.

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.
• "Tiptree Stories." 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. 354-369.
• The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction (2002; Wesleyan Univ. Press; ISBN 081956527X) (revision of 1996 thesis)

Carlen Lavigne

• "Mirrorshade women: feminism and cyberpunk at the turn of the twenty-first century" (2008) Thesis, McGill University.

Richard G. Law.

• "Science Fiction Women: Victims, Rebels, Heroes." In Donald M. Hassler, editor, Patterns of the Fantastic (Academic Programming at Chicon IV.) (Island, WA: Starmont House, 1983), pages 11-20.

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Stan Lee.

• The Superhero Women. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977.

Sarah Lefanu.

• Feminism and Science Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
  • Originally published as In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction. London: Women's Press, 1988.
• "Popular Writing and Feminist Intervention in Science Fiction" in D. Longhurst (ed.) Gender, Genre and Narrative Pleasure, London: Unwin Hyman (1989): pages 177-91.
• "Sex, Sub-Atomic Particles, and Sociology" in Lucie Armitt, editor, Where No Man Has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction (London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 178-185.
• "Difference and Sexual Politics in Naomi Mitchison's Solution Three." Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference, edited by Jane L. Donawerth and Carol A. Kolmerten (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1994): pp. 153-165.

Judith Leggatt.

• "Critiquing Economic and Environmental Colonization. Globalization and Science Fiction in The Moons of Palmares." Chapter 9, p.127 et seq, in Science Fiction, Imperialism, and the Third World: Essays on Postcolonial Literature and Film, edited by Ericka Hoagland and Reema Sarwal; foreword by Andy Sawyer. ISBN 978-0-7864-4789-3. McFarland & Co. 2010.

Ursula K. Le Guin.

• Response. SF Commentary 26, April 1972, pages 90-92. Response to Lem's comments and review of The Left Hand of Darkness in November 1971 issue.
• "Science Fiction and the Future of Anarchy," interview with Charles Bigelow and J. McMahon, Oregon Times (Dec. 1974): pp. 24-29.
• "American SF and the Other," Science-Fiction Studies, no. 7 (Nov. 1975): pp. 208-210.
• "A Response to the Le Guin Issue," Science-Fiction Studies 3 (March 1976): pp. 43-46.
• "The Space Crone," The Co-Evolution Quarterly v. 10 (Summer 1976): pp. 108-111.
• "Creating Realistic Utopias: 'The Obvious Trouble with Anarchism is Neighbours'" with Win McCormak and Anne Mendel, Seven Days (April 11, 1977): pp. 38-40. (interview)
• The Language of the Night: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy. New York: Putnam, 1979.
• "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Writes the Book." The New York Times Book Review v. 94 (January 22, 1989), pages 1+ .
• Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
• "The World of Science Fiction (Women Authors)." Ms. Volume 1, no. 3 (November / December 1990), pages 52-54.
• "A Citizen of Mondath" in The Profession of Science Fiction: SF Writers on their Craft and Ideas, edited by Maxim Jakubowski and Edward James, Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1992: pp. 73-77.
• Many other essays, prose, and reviews of sf, feminist and otherwise. See the Le Guin Bibliography for more detailed citations.

Steven Lehman.

• "The Motherless Child in Science Fiction: Frankenstein and Moreau." in Science-Fiction Studies, #56, v. 19, Part 1 (March 1992), pages 49-58.

S. Lehr.

• Editor, Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Construction of Gender in Children's Literature. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann (2001).

Linda Leith.

• "Women and Science Fiction," Science Fiction Studies, v. 10 (1983): pp. 247-250.

Joy Leman.

• "Wise Scientists and Female Androids: Class and Gender in Science Fiction" in John Corner, editor, Popular Television in Britain: Studies in Cultural History (London: British Film Institute, 1991), pp. 108-124.

Gerard Lenne.

• "Monster and Victim: Women in the Horror Film." In Sexual Stratagems, ed. Patricia Erens.

Michael Levy.

• "Green SF and Eco Feminism." Originally published in IAFA Newsletter, Spring 1989 issues. Reprinted in Robert Collins and Robert Latham, editors, Science Fiction and Fantasy book Review Annual, 1989 Edition (Westport, CN: Meckler, 1990). "Review article of recent work by Octavia Butler, Nancy Kress, Pamela Sargent, and Sheri S. Tepper" -- ML.
• Natalie Babbitt. (Boston: Twayne, 1991). "This is the first book-length study of this award-winning children's fantasy writer, a number of whose books have feminist content" -- ML.
• "Young Adult Science Fiction as Bildungsroman" forthcoming in C. W. Sullivan III, editor, Young Adult Science Fiction, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. "This article discusses the differences between the traditional (male) bildungsroman and the more recently defined female bildungsroman and applies both to YA SF. Among the authors whose works are analyzed are H. M. Hoover, Louise Lawrence and Monica Hughes" -- ML.

Darby Lewes.

• "Gynotopia: A Checklist of Nineteenth Century Utopias by American Women," Legacy 6(2) Fall 1989: pages 29-41.
• Dream Revisionaries: Gender and Genre in Women's Utopian Fiction, 1870-1920. (University of Alabama Press, 1995)

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Marcia R. Lieberman.

• "'Some Day My Prince Will Come': Female Acculturation Through the Fairy Tale," College English Volume 34, n.3 (December 1972), pages 383-395. Reprinted in Jack Zipes' anthology, Don't Bet on the Prince.

Cecile Lindsay.

• "Body/Language: French Feminist Utopias". French Review (Oct. 1986), v.60, n.1, pp. 46-55.

J. A. Little

• Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias (2007, Prometheus Books)

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Rosaleen Love.

• "The Onion Skin Theory of Identity, The Paint Pot Theory of Gender, and the Blu-tack Theory of Position." 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. 319-328.

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Alison Lurie.

• "Fairy Tale Liberation," The New York Times Book Review, v. 15, n.11, pp. 42-44 (Dec. 17, 1970).