Feminism and Utopia Bibliography

Feminism and Utopia Bibliography/Non-Fiction

Albinski, Nan Bowman. "`The Laws of Justice, of Nature, and of Right': Victorian Feminist Utopias." Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative edited by Libby Falk Jones and Sarah Webster Goodwin. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990.

--. Women's Utopias in British and American Fiction. London: Routledge, 1988.

Baggeson, Soren. "Utopian and Dystopian Pessimism: Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest and Tiptree's "We Who Stole the Dream." Science Fiction Studies v. 14 (1987): pages 34-43.

Bammer, Angelika. Partial Visions: Feminism and Utopianism in the 1970s. New York: Routledge, 1991.

--. "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.

--. Future Females: A Critical Anthology. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1981.

--. "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.

--. "Review of Feminist Utopias by Francis Bartkowski." Science Fiction Studies 17 (1990): pages 401 - 404.

--. "Science Fiction's Invisible Female Man: Feminism, Formula, Word and World in When It Changed and The Women Men Don't See" in Luk de Vos, editor, Just the Other Day: Essays on the Suture of the Future. Antwerp: EXA, 1985. pages 433-437. (Series: Intrepid Reeks number 11.)

--. "Utopia at the End of a Male Chauvinist Dystopian World: Suzy McKee Charnas's Feminist Science Fiction" in Marleen Barr and Nicholas D. Smith, editors, Women and Utopia (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1983), pp. 43-66.

--, and Nicholas Smith, eds. Women and Utopia: Critical Interpretations (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1983).

--. "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.

--, and Nicholas D. Smith, editors. Women and Utopia: Critical Interpretations. Landham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1983.

--, and Patrick D. Murphy, eds. "Feminism Faces the Fantastic." Special issue of Women's Studies, Volume 14, Number 2 (1987).

Bartkowski, Frances. Feminist Utopias. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.

Baruch, Elaine Hoffman. "`A Natural and Necessary Monster': Women in Utopia." Alternative Futures Volume 2, Number 1 (Winter 1979): pages 29-48.

--. "Dystopia Now." Alternative Futures: The Journal of Utopian Studies (Summer 1979): pages 55-67.

Brians, Paul. "Study Guide: Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale."

Brizzi, Mary T. "C. J. Cherryh and Tomorrow's New Sex Roles" in Staicar's The Feminine Eye (Ungar: New York, 1982), pp. 32-47.

--. "Filling the Gaps Between Hard and Soft Science Fiction: A Case Study of Technofeminist Pat Cadigan." SISSI Proceedings, June 1994. Invited lecture at "The Image of Technology in Literature, the Media and Society." Society for Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery (SISSI) and the University of Southern Colorado, Colorado Springs, March 11, 1994.

Chien, Ying-Ying. "From Utopian to Dystopian World: Two Faces of Feminism in Contemporary Taiwanese Women's Fiction." World Literature Today V. 68 (Winter 1994), pages 35-42.

Delany, Sheila. "Ambivalence in Utopia: The American Feminist Utopias of Charlotte P. Gilman and Marge Piercy" in Writing Woman (New York: Schocken Books, 1983).

--, & Carol A. Kolmerten, eds. Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994. Reviewed in Science Fiction Studies #65: Volume 22, Part 1 (March 1995): pages 127 - 129.

--. "Utopian Science: Contemporary Feminist Science Theory and Science Fiction by Women." NWSA Journal Volume 2, Number 4 (Autumn 1990): pages 535-57.

Drake, Barbara. "Two Utopias: Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time and Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossed" in Sheila Roberts, Editor, Women Writers on Women Writers. San Bernardino, California: Borgon Press, 1993.

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. "The Feminist Apologues of Lessing, Piercy, and Russ." Frontiers Volume 4, Number 1 (Spring 1979): Pages 1-8.

Eisler, Riane. "Pragmatopia: Women's Utopias and Scenarios for a Possible Future." Paper delivered at the 1986 Conference of the Society of Utopian Studies, Asilomar, California, October, 1986.

Finney, Kathe Davis. "The Days of Future Past or Utopians Lessing and Le Guin Fight Future Nostalgia." Academic Programming at Chicon IV. In Donald M. Hassler, editor, Patterns of the Fantastic (Island, WA: Starmont House, 1983), pages 31-40.

Fitting, Peter. "For Men Only: A Guide to Reading Single-Sex Worlds." Women's Studies v. 14 no. 2 (1987), pages 101-117.

--. "Reconsiderations of the Separatist Paradigm in Recent Feminist Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies Volume 19 no. 1 (56) (March 1992), pages 32-48. Discusses Pamela Sargent's The Shore of Women, Joan Slonczewski's A Door Into Ocean, and Sheri Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country.

--. "`So We All Became Mothers': New Roles for Men in Recent Utopian Fiction." Science Fiction Studies Volume 12 (July 1985), pages 156-183.

--. "The Turn from Utopia in Recent Feminist Fiction." in Libby Falk Jones, Sarah Webster Goodwin, editors, Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990. pages 141-158. about: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue, Zoe Ann Fairbairns Benefits, and Ursula K Le Guin's Always Coming Home

Florence, Penny. "The Liberation of Utopia: Or, Is Science Fiction the Ideal Contemporary Women's Form." in Linda Anderson, editor, Plotting Change: Contemporary Women's Fiction (London: Edward Arnold, 1990). Pages 64-83.

Foster, David L. "Woman on the Edge of Narrative: Language in Marge Piercy's Utopia." Academic Programming at Chicon IV. In Donald M. Hassler, editor, Patterns of the Fantastic (Island, WA: Starmont House, 1983), pages 47-56.

Foster, Frances S. "Octavia Butler's Black Female Future Vision." Extrapolation 23 (1982): pages 37-49.

Freibert, Lucy M. "World Views in Utopian Novels by Women." Woman and Utopia. Ed. Marleen Barr and Nicholas O. Smith. New York: University Press of America, 1983.

Goodwin, Sarah Webster and Libby Falk Jones, editors. Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990.

Gordon, J. "Yin and Yang Duke It Out: Is Cyberpunk Feminism's New Age?" Science Fiction Eye Volume 2 (1990): pages 37-40. Reprinted in L. McCaffery's Storming the Reality Studio, Durham and London, Duke University Press, pages 196-202.

--. "Feminism and Utopia." Science Fiction Studies v 13 (March 1986): 79-83.

--. "She and Herland: Feminism as Fantasy" in George E. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, and Robert Scholes, editors,Coordinates: Placing Science Fiction and Fantasy (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983), pages 139-149.

Haraway, Donna. "A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s." Socialist Review Volume 15 Part 80 (1985): pages 65-107.

--. "Monkeys, Aliens, and Women: Love, Science, and Politics at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Colonial Discourse." Women's Studies International Forum Volume 12, Number 3 (1989): pages 295-312.

--. "Community and Survival in Near-Future Feminist Dystopias by Ethnic Women Writers." International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Fort Lauderdale, FL: March 1996.

--. "Ecofeminist Science Fiction and Native American Culture: Confronting Technotopia." American Culture Association in the South Conference. Nashville, TN; October 1993.

--. "Utopia, Science, Postmodernism, and Feminism: A Trilogy of Significant Works." Science Fiction Studies Volume 21 number 2 (July 1994), pages 232-237.

Johnson, Judith E. "Women and Vampires: Nightmare or Utopia?" The Kenyon Review v. ns15 (Winter 1993), pages 72-80.

Kessler, Carol Farley. "Bibliography of Utopian Fiction by United States Women 1836-1988." Utopian Studies Volume 1, Number 1 (1990): pages 1-58.

--, 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.

Ketterer, David. "Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: A Contextual Dystopia." Science Fiction Studies. Volume 16, Part 2 (1989): pages 209-17.

Keulen, Margarete. Radical Imagination: Feminist Conceptions of the Future in Ursula Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Sally Miller Gearhart.

Khanna, Lee Cullen. "Frontiers of Imagination: Feminist Worlds." Women's Studies International Forum Volume 7, number 2 (1984): pages 97-102.

--. "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.

--. "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.

--. "Women's Worlds: New Directions in Utopian Fiction." The Journal of Utopian Studies Volume 4 (Spring / Summer 1981): pages 47-60.

Khouri, Nadia. "The Dialectics of Power: Utopia in the Science Fiction of Le Guin, Jeury and Piercy." Science Fiction Studies Volume 7 (March 1980): pages 49-61. Milano, Feltrinelli, 1980, pages 222-231.This essay is about non-trascendent utopia in Marge Piercy's work. Utopia come from a condition of total dispossation, when you dont' have nothing else to loose ypu 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

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

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.

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

Lewes, Darby. "Gynotopia: A Checklist of Nineteenth Century Utopias by American Women," Legacy 6(2) Fall 1989:pages 29-41. (L)

Lykee, Nina and Rosi Braidotti, editors. Between Monsters, Goddesses and Cyborgs: Feminist Confrontations with Science, Medicine and Cyberspace. Zed Books: London and New Jersey, 1996.

Malak, Amin. "Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and the Dystopian Tradition." Canadian Literature 112(1987): 9-16.

Mellor, Anne K. "On Feminist Utopias." Women's Studies Volume 9, Number 3 (1982): pages 241-62.

--. "Utopia for Whom?" Aphra Volume 5 (Summer, 1974): pages 2-16. (L)

Pearson, Carol. "Coming Home: Four Feminist Utopias and Patriarchal Experience" in Marleen S. Barr, editor, Future Females: A Critical Anthology (Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1981), pages 63-70.(Revision of 1977 Bibliography I.1500)

--. "Toward a New Language, Consciousness and Political Theory: The Utopian Novels of Dorothy Bryant, Mary Staton, and Marge Piercy," MLA Convention, San Francisco, December, 1979. Also: Heresies v. 4 n. 1 (13), (1981), pages 84-87.

--. "Women's Fantasies and Feminist Utopias." Frontiers Volume 2, Number 3. (Fall 1977): pages 50-61. (1973? pages 48-65).

Peyser, Thomas Galt. "Reproducing Utopia: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Herland." Studies in American Fiction v. 20 (Spring 1992) pages 1-16.

Pfaelzer, Jean. "The Changing of the Avant-Garde: The Feminist Utopia." Science Fiction Studies Volume 15 number 3 (November 1988): pages 282-294.

--. "Feminism as Ideology: Women in American Utopias, 1880 - 1900." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, 27 December 1979.

Quilter, Laura. Index to Female Writers in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopia: 18th Century to the Present. (http://www.wenet.net/~lquilter/femsf/authors/, 1995 - present).

Rhodes, Jewel P. "Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness: Androgyny and the Feminist Utopian vision." Women and Utopia. Ed. Marleen Barr and Nicholas O. Smith. New York: University Press of America, 1983.

Rohrlich, Ruby, and Elaine Baruch, editors. Women in Search of Utopias: Mavericks and Mythmakers. New York: Schocken Books, 1984.Includes essays by Ruby Rohrlick, Elaine Hoffman Baruch, Diane LeBow, Geraldine Day McNelly, France Burke, Marilyn Bensman, June Jordan, Jill Harsin, Marge Piercy, A. Harriette Andreadis, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Martha A.Ackelsberg, Audre Lorde, Ruth Elizabeth Wangerin, Ntozake Shange, Arlene Sheer, Batya Weinbaum, Jan Zimmerman, Frances Whyatt, Barrie Thorne, Cheris Kramarae, Nancy Henley, H. Lee Gershuny, Susan H. Lees, Tucker Farley, Dinnah Pladott, Eleanor Arnason, Carol S. Pearson, Lee Cullen Khanna, Mischa Adams, Ann Sutherland Harris, Sally Miller Gearhart, and Eve Merriam. Rosenthal, Rae. "Gaskell's Feminist Utopia: The Cranfordians and the Reign of Goodwill" in Jane L. Donawerth and Carol A. Kolmerten, editors, Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference. Syracuse, NY:Syracuse University Press, 1994. pages 73-92. Rosinsky, Natalie M. Feminist Futures: Contemporary Women's Speculative Fiction. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1984.

Rothstein, Mervyn. "No Balm in Gilead for Margaret Atwood." New York Times 12 February 1986: C11.

--. "Recent Feminist Utopias" in Marleen S. Barr, editor, Future Females: A Critical Anthology (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press: 1981), pp. 71-85.

--. "Reflections on Science Fiction: An Interview." Quest: A Feminist Quarterly Volume 2, Number 1 (Summer 1975): pages 40-49.

Sargent, Lyman Tower. "Women in Utopia." Comparative Literature Studies Volume 10, Number 4. (December 1973): pages 302-16.

Scholes, Robert. "A Footnote to Russ's `Recent Feminist Utopias'" in Marleen S. Barr, editor, Future Females: A Critical Anthology (Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1981), pages 86-87.

Sachweikart, Patrocinio. "What If...: Science and Technology in Feminist Utopias." In Machina Ex Dea: Feminist Perspectives on Technology, edited by Joan A. Rothschild, 198-211. New York: Pergamon, 1983.

Segal, Howard P. "The Feminist Technological Utopia: Mary E. Bradley Lane's Mizora (1890)." Alternative Futures 4 (Spring / Summer 1981): pages 67-72.

Shelton, Robert. "The Social Text as Body: Images of Health and Disease in 3 Recent Feminist Utopias." Literature and Medicine v. 12 n. 2 (Fall 1993) pages 161-177.

Smith, Marsha A. "The Disoriented Male Narrator and Societal Conversions: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Feminist Utopian Vision." ATQ v. ns3 (March 1989), pages 123-133.

Spivack, Charlotte. Merlin's Daughters: Contemporary Women Writers of Fantasy (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987).

Stone-Blackburn, Susan. "Single-Sexed Utopias and Our Two-Sexed Reality". http://math.uwaterloo.ca/~dmswitze/slonczewski/stone-blackburn.html

Strauss, Sylvia. "Women in `Utopia.'" South Atlantic Quarterly Volume 75 (Winter 1976): pages 115-131.

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

Wilbur, Shawn P. "'Cyberpunks' to Synners: Toward a Feminist Posthumanism?" http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~swilbur/cadigan.html

Williams, Anne. "Dracula: Si(g)ns of the Fathers." Texas Studies in Literature and Language v. 33 (Winter 1991), pages 445-463.

Wilson, Christopher P. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Steady Burghers: The Terrain of Herland." W Zaki, Hoda. "Utopia and Ideology in Daughters of a Coral Dawn and Contempoary Feminist Utopias." Women's Studies Volume 14, Number 2 (1987), pages 119-133.

--. "Utopia, Dystopia, and Ideology in the Science Fiction of Octavia Butler." Science Fiction Studies Volume 17, Part 2 (1990): pages 239-251.

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