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Articles (alpha by author)     See also: Reviews | Fiction | Poetry | Art | Memorials

A

  • Sara Martin Alegre, The Other in Me: Nancy Collins’s Vampire Heroine, Sonja Blue (4.1)

  • Louise Allen, Monkey Business: Planet of the Apes and Romantic Excess (3.2)

  • Brian Attebery, Women Alone, Men Alone (1.2)

  • Margara Averbach, Technology, “Magic,” and Resistance in Native American Women’s Writing (2.2)

B

  • Sandra Baringer, The Terror of the Liminal: Silko’s Almanac and Klein’s Phantasy Paradigm (2.2)

  • Marleen S. Barr, Interview with Janet Asimov (2.1)

  • Anita Biressi, True Crime, Medicine, and Corporeal Horror (4.1)

  • Alyson Buckman, "What Good Is All This to Black People?" Octavia Butler's Reconstruction of Corporeality (4.2)

C

  • Dorian Cirrone, Millenial Mothers: Reproduction, Race, and Ethnicity in Feminist Dystopian Fiction (3.1)

  • William Clemente, WisCon 22 and the (Not So) Secret Feminist Cabal (1.1)

  • Theresa Crater, The Resurrection of Morgan le Fey: Fallen Woman to Triple Goddess (3.1)

  • Janice Crosby, The Snow Queen and the Goddess in the Machine (2.1)

D

  • Sharon DeGraw, "The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same": Gender and Sexuality in Octavia Butler's Oeuvre (4.2)

  • J. Andrew Deman, "Taking Out the Trash: Octavia E. Butler's Wild Seed and the Feminist Voice in American SF." (6.2)

  • Scott A. Dimovitz, "Cartesian Nuts: Rewriting the Platonic Androgyne in Angela Carter's Japanese Surrealism." (6.2)

  • Christine Doran, Fantasy as History: The Invention of Cixi, Empress of China (3.2)

  • R.C. Dorozario. "The Consequences of Disney Anthropomorphism." (7.1)

  • Eric M. Drown. "Business Girls and Beset Men in Pulp Science Fiction and Science Fiction Fandom." (7.1)

  • Drushel, Bruce E. "Pandora's Box in Cyberspace: The On-line Alternative Fan Sites of Hercules: The Legendary Journey." (7.2)

E

F

  • Mary Fambrough, Transcending Gender: Challenging the Binary. Divide at the Third International Congress on Sex and Gender (1.1)

  • Aline Ferreira, Artificial Wombs and Archaic Tombs: Angela Carter’s The Passion of Eve and the Alien Tetralogy (4.1)

G

  • Robert Gish, Voices from Bear Country: Leslie Silko’s Allegories of Creation (2.2)

  • Andrea Greenbaum, Bio-Technology as Kabbalah: Reconfiguring the Golem Myth in Alien Resurrection and Species (4.1)

  • Sandra Govan, The Parable of the Sower as Rendered by Octavia Butler: Lessons for Our Changing Times (4.2)

H

  • Rebecca C. Hains, The Problematics of Reclaiming the Girlish: The Powerpuff Girls and Girl Power (5.2)

  • Mary Catherine Harper, Mending the Rationality/Romanticism Divide in the Study of Women’s Science Fiction (2.1)

  • Janet Harrison. "The Muse Unmasked: Eileen Agar's Objectives Correlatives." (7.1)

  • Roseanne Hoefel, Narrative Choreography toward a New Cosmogony: The Medicine Way in Linda Hogan’s Novel Solar Storms (2.2)

  • Veronica Hollinger, The Utopia of the Perverse: An Exercise in “Transgressive Reinscription” (2.1)

  • Nalo Hopkinson, Address Given at The College of New Jersey, Department of African American Studies, 30th Anniversary Symposia: "Afrofuturism: Womanist Paradigms for the New Millennium" (6.1)

I

J

  • Alison Jacques, "Lucky Jupiter Meets Your Ruler": Otherworldly Sources of Girl Power in Magazine Horoscopes (5.2)

  • Nancy Johnston, “I Would Have Swallowed the Kiss”: Reflections on Feminist Speculative Poetry (2.1); Made in Canada (1.2)

  • Lorna Jowett, “Mute and Beautiful”: The Representation of the Female in Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire (4.1)

K

  • Sylvia Kelso, No Place, the Good Place, a New Place (1.2); Third Person Peculiar: Reading between Acamenic and SF-Community Positions in Feminist SF (2.1)

  • Kathleen Kendall, Who Are You Afraid Of?: Young Women as Consumers and Producers of Horror Films (4.1)

  • Kirk, Mary. "Vision of the Possible: Models for Women's Heroic Journey Applied to Madrone's Path in The Fifth Sacred Thing." (7.2)

  • Elaine Kleiner and Angela Vlaicu, Revisioning Woman in America: A Study of Louise Erdrich’s Novel The Antelope Wife (2.2)

  • Susan Kray, Refamiliarization: Jewish Women in the Narrative Strategies of "Pulp" Science Fiction Magazine Stories, 1993-2000 (4.2)

L

  • Carlen Lavigne, "Space Opera: Melodrama, Deminism and the Women of Farscape." (6.2)

M

  • Barbara Mabee, Reception of Fairy Tale Motifs in Texts by Twentieth-Century German Women Writers (1.2)

  • Tom Matchie, Fighting the Windigoo: Winona LaDuke’s Peculiar Postcolonial Posture in Last Standing Woman (2.2)

  • Jerrilyn McGregory, Nalo Hopkinson's Approach to Speculative Fiction (6.1)

  • Patricia Melzer, “All that you touch you change”: Utopian Desire and the Concept of Change in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents (3.2)

  • Judith Merril, That Only a Mother (4.2)

  • Sabine Meyer, Passing Perverts, After All: Vampirism, (In)Visibility, and the Horrors of the Normative in Jewelle Gomez’ The Gilda Stories (4.1)

  • Gretchen Mitchlitsch, Breastfeeding Mother Rescues City: Nalo Hopkinson's Ti-Jeanne as Superhero (6.1)

  • Liora Moriel, An Introduction, or the Jacket Blurb Comes of Age (4.2)

  • Robin Murray, Terri Windling’s The Wood Wife: A Space for Complementary Subjects (3.1)

  • Megan Musgrave, "Phenomenal Women: The Shape-shifter Archetype in Postcolonial Magical Realist Fiction." (6.2)

N

  • Victoria Anne Newsom, Young Females as Superheroes: Superheroines in the Animated Sailor Moon (5.2)

O

  • Gloria Feman Orenstein, Journey through Mlle de Scudéry’s Carte de Tendre: A 17th-Century Salon Woman’s Dream/Country of Tenderness (3.2); NWSA 2000-Boston (2.1); The Surrealist Cosmovision of Bridget Tichenor (1.1); Vision and Visibility: Contemporary Jewish Women Artists Visualize the Invisible (4.2); When the Imaginary Becomes Real, as Surrealism Said It Would: 'All the Rest Is Litterature'.(7.2)

  • Delilah Orr, Bear, Mountain Lion, Deer, and Yellow Woman in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony (2.2)

PQ

  • Kathy Davis Patterson, 'Haunting Back': Vampire Subjectivity in The Gilda Stories (6.1)

R

  • Sharon Ross, Dangerous Demons: Fan Responses to Girls' Power, Girls' Bodies, and Girls' Beauty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (5.2)

S

  • Gerardo Rodriguez Salas, "E.G.E. Bulwer Lytton's Covert Antifeminism in The Coming Race." (6.2)

  • Pamela Sargent, Jewish Enough (4.2)

  • Debra Bonita Shaw. "Sex and the Single Starship Captain: Compulsory Heterosexuality and Star Trek: Voyager." (7.1)

  • Diane Simmons, Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior and Shaman: Fighting Women in the New World (2.1)

  • Smith, Romayne. "Not 'Of Woman Born': Fairy Tale Mothers for Postmodern Literary Children." (7.2)

  • Leslie F. Stone, Letter of the Twenty-Fourth Century (1.1); Out of the Void (2.1)

  • Susan Stratton, Intersubjectivity and Difference in Feminist Ecotopias (3.1)

  • Ella Jo Street. "The Origin of Tarot" (7.2)

  • Darko Suvin, Cloning: On Cognition in the Discourses of SF and Technoscience (3.2); Must Collectivism Be Against People What Remains Of Zamyatin’s We After The Change Of Leviathans: Reflections From Feminist And Other Standpoints (1.1)

T

  • Douglas Thorpe, Girl Power and the Discourse of Aging: The Example of Ursula K. Le Guin (5.2)

  • Linda Holland Toll, "Bluestockings Beware: Cultural Backlash and the Re/configuration of the Witch in Popular Nineteenth-Century Literature."

  • Frances Tomaszyk, Lunatics with Lethal Combat Skills: Dark Doubles, Bacchae, and Soulless Women in Xena: Warrior Princess (4.1)

  • Stephanie S. Turner, "What Actually Is": The Insistence of Genre in Octavia Butler's Kindred (4.2)

UV

W

  • Teresa N. Washington, Power of the Word/Power of the Works; the Signifying African Soul of Africana Women's Literature (6.1)

  • Batya Weinbaum, Interview with Marge Piercy (3.2); NWSA FEMSPEC Salon (1.2); NWSA 2000-Boston (2.1); SFRA 2000-Cleveland (2.1); Sex Role Reversals in Star Trek’s Planets of Women as Indices of Second Wave Media Protest (1.1)

  • C. S'Thembile West. "The Competing Demands of Community Survival and Self-Preservation in Octavia Butler's Kindred." (7.2)

  • Lynn Williams, Separatist Fantasies 1690-1997: An Annotated Bibliography (1.2)

  • Gina Wisker, “Honey, I’m Home!”: Splintering the Fabrication in Domestic Horror (4.1); Women’s Horror as Erotic Transgression (3.1) 'Your Buried Ghosts Have A Way of tripping You Up': Revisioning and Mothering in African American and Afro-Caribbean Women's Speculative Horror (6.1)

  • Sarah Wood, Subversion through Inclusion: Octavia Butler's Interrogations of Religion in Wild Seed and Xenogenesis (6.1)

  • Phoebe Wray, Writer’s Respite at Wiscon ‘99 (1.2)

XYZ

Reviews (alpha by author)    See also: Articles | Fiction | Poetry | Art

  • Scott Barr, Review of The Defiant Muse (4.2)

  • Bruce Beatie, Review of Teaching toward the 24th Century (3.1)

  • Janice M. Bogstad, A Little Light Shed On: Into Darkness Peering (1.1)

  • Beverly Bow, Reivew of Cambridge Anthology of SF (6.2)

  • Elizabeth Pandalfo Briggs, A Ramble through Fantasyland (3.1)

  • Nsenga K. Burton, Review of Female Hip-Hop Artists in Outer Space (4.2)

  • Ritch Calvin, Review of Turning on the Girls (3.1)

  • Marcus Casal, The Poet as Cartographer (2.1)

  • Robert Charlick, Review of Sleeping with Cats (4.2)

  • Tanya Cochran, The On-line International Community of Buffy Studies (6.2)

  • Debra Rae Cohen, Review of The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction (4.2)

  • Sheryl Curtis, Canadian Girl Power: Young Women Save the Day, happily-Ever-After Ending Unnecessary (5.2)

  • Eric Drown: 'Buffy, Who?' Review of Athena's Daughters: Television's New Woman Warriors, edited by Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy. (7.2) ; 'Ooooo!, We Hate Bush.' Review of Hollywood's New Radicalism: War, Globalization and the Movies from Reagan to George W. Bush, by Ben Dickerson (7.2)

  • Joe Geary, Young Women (and More) in Anime (5.2)

  • Liisa Hake, Review of The Jigsaw Woman (3.1); Two Reviews (1.2)

  • Candice M. Jenkins, Review of Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (6.1)

  • Phillipa Kafka, Don Quixote, the Joads, and Jack Kerouac Move Over: A Chinese American Woman’s Adventures On the Road [of Life] (2.1); Review of Goja (3.1); Review of The Road to Fez (3.2); Review of A Spiritual Life (4.2)

  • Brian Kelley, Review of Dreaming the Actual (4.2)

  • K. A. Laity and Wendy Goldberg, Japanesse Magic: The Girl-Friendly Films of Hayao Miyazaki (5.2)

  • Phyllis Lassner, Review of Women's Holocaust Writing (4.2)

  • Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, Review of Witches of the Atlantic World (3.1)

  • Emmy Levine, Review of Islands of Women and Amazons (3.1)

  • Mary Beth Long, Growing Up to Be Feminists: Reports on Girl Culture (5.2)

  • Richard A. Lupoff, Clare Winger Harris and “The Fifth Dimension” (3.1)

  • Gretchen J. Michlitsch, Review of The Salt Roads (6.1)

  • Monique Morrison, Octavia Butler Speaks: A Visit to Cleveland State University (4.2)

  • Suzanne Zahrt Murphy, Dream Poet: Marijo Moore (2.2)

  • Nicte-Ha, Dinotopia (1.2)

  • Ifeoma C. K. Nwankwo, Review of Brown Girl in the Ring (4.2)

  • Diana Orendi, Review of Soundless Roar (4.2)

  • Gloria Orenstein, Surrealist Women (1.2)

  • Darlene Pagan, Review of Behind the Blue Gate (3.1)

  • Shannan Palma: Review of From Alien to The Matrix: Reading SF Films, by Roz Kaveney (7.2)

  • Kathy Davis Patterson, Review of Minion: A Vampire Huntress Legend (6.1)

  • Donna Burns Phillips, Review of Mary Shelley’s Fictions

  • Earl Pike, Margins Made Visible (1.1)

  • Annis Vilas Pratt, Review of In the Footsteps of the Goddess (3.1); Review of Life Is a Fatal Disease (2.2); Review of The Golden Book of Springfield (3.2)

  • Amanda A. Putnam, Reading Sacred: Feminists Confronting Future Feminists (5.2)

  • Lynee Reed, The Song of the Goddess (6.2)

  • M. Sean Saunders, Marwen's Web: Living on the Loom of the Mother (5.2)

  • Karen Schneider, On Women of Other Worlds (2.1); Review of White Turtle (3.1)

  • Kaila Schwartz, Elements of Trickster in the Children’s Books of Louise Erdrich (2.2)

  • Anne Collins Smith, The Exploration of Gender in Deep Space Nine and Sacred Time (1.2)

  • Erin Smith. Women Writing Pulp (7.1) ; Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop-Culture Forms (6.2) ; “Saddling La Gringa” (3.2)

  • Jennifer Thorington Springer, Review of Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction (6.1)

  • Alicia Thomas, Review of The Awakening: A Vampire Huntress Legend (6.1)

  • Audrey Vanderford, Review of The Raw Brunettes (4.2)

  • Vanessa Warne, Eyes Shining and Feet Kicking (5.2)

  • Batya Weinbaum, Reviews of The Bitch Is Back; Inanna; From Moon Goddesses to Virgins; The Lieutenant Nun (3.1); Review of Klezmer Music (4.2); Review of Summer with the Ghosts (5.2); interview with Diana Rivers (7.1)

  • Carmiele Y. Wilkerson, Review of Love (6.1)

  • Gina Wisker, Mothering in the African Diaspora (3.1); Reviews of Saddling La Gringa”; (Out) Classed Women (3.2)

  • Ilana Wolpert, Review of Bee Season (4.2)

Fiction and Plays (alpha by author)     See also: Articles | Reviews | Poetry | Art

  • Kathie Ausin, "Orion". (6.2)

  • Marleen S. Barr, The Feminist Pathfinder Does Not Probe Mars (1.1); Close Encounters of the Monica Kind (4.2) ; Superfeminist Or, A Handmade Carol (7.1)

  • E. M. Broner, De-Winging the Angel (4.2)

  • Suzy MeKee Charnas, Evil Thoughts (4.1)

  • Christine Croyden, Interview with a Housework Beast (2.1)

  • Monica De Neymet De Giacoman. Living Hours (excerpt) (7.2)

  • Stephanie Dickinson. Grasshopper Woman (7.1)

  • Samuel R. Delany, Trouble on Triton – Excerpt (1.1)

  • Marcia Douglas, Marie-Ma (6.1)

  • Tananarive Due, Protection (3.2)

  • Linda Eisenstein, Revelation 24:12 (1.2)

  • Carolyn Gage, The Rules of the Playground: A One-Act Play (5.2)

  • Marilyn Gale, Lilith 1996 (4.2)

  • Girls’ SF by a 9-year-old, circa 1961, The Suncomers (1.1)

  • Carol Guess, Love Story with a Living Ghost (3.2)

  • Clare Winger Harris, Excerpts from “The Fifth Dimension” (3.1)

  • Linda Johnson, If the Sun and Moon Should Doubt… (2.1)

  • Sharon King, "Quiescent." (6.2)

  • Rebecca Lesses, A Dream Question for the Angels (3.2)

  • Martha Marinara, Ovum (3.1)

  • Janet McAdams, Plaza Bocanegra (2.2)

  • Carole Spearin McCauley, "Crone's Revenge." (6.2)

  • Abigail Morris, The Girl with the Metal Hair (5.2)

  • Dawn Karima Pettigrew, Manna Raptured (2.2)

  • Donna Marie Robb, Soul Spinner (4.2)

  • Doreen Russell, Spell (4.1)

  • Kiini Ibura Salaam, K-USH: The Legend of the Last Wero (6.1)

  • Debra Scheef. From The Archives... (7.1)

  • Justin Scott, The Truth in Dreams (5.2)

  • Stephanie Sellers, Coyote Wants a Baby (2.1); Father Coyote (2.2)

  • Ruth Knafo Setton, Beast (1.2)

  • Andrea Shaw, Jus' a Pinch of the Yellow Powder (6.1)

  • Louise Shaw, The Which Bitch? Project (4.1)

  • Kristine A. Sommerville, Runners (5.2)

  • Cathy Stadler, The Lost Tribe (3.2)

  • Leslie F. Stone: Cosmic Joke (4.2)

  • Aida Thompson. Thanksgiving Day (7.1)

  • Batya Weinbaum, Sasha's Harlem: Excerpts (4.2)

Poetry (alpha by author)    See also: Articles | Reviews | Fiction | Art

  • Karen Alcaly-Gut, One of Those Nights (4.2)

  • Sharon Black, Stone Dress (5.2)

  • Helen Crump, Morning Wake-up Sun (6.1)

  • Canda Cruz. The Goddess Rag; Avatar Blues (7.1)

  • Cathy Daly. Solo, Alone, False Apparitions, Untitled (7.1)

  • Jim DeWitt. While You're Waiting for the Wind? (7.1)

  • Edvige Giunta, "Stories of Sicilian Girls" and "Dark Play" (5.2)

  • Rita Grabowski, Recessively Blond (4.2)

  • Edvina Giunta. Night's Whispers (7.1)

  • Shannon Mariana Houston, Haiku (4.2)

  • Marilyn Jurich, Even Death is Uncertain without the Proper Forms (4.2)

  • Marie Kazalia. No Elvis Sightings (7.1)

  • Elizabeth Kelley. Letter (7.1)

  • Nancy Kuhl, If Kay Sage Painted Portrait as a Boy (3.2); The Hundred-headless Woman Opens Her August Sleeve: Part 2 (3.2)

  • Tara Leonard, Sanitary/Sanity (3.2)

  • Jane Liddell-King, Cornflakes (3.2)

  • Lyn Lifshin, Emily Dickinson (5.2)

  • Sara Littlecrow-Russell, Indian Tears (2.2); Those Indians Sure Are Crafty (2.2)

  • Moira McAuliffe, Orpheus (3.1)

  • Kathleen McConnell. The Inevitable Feminist Treatise on Catwoman (excerpt) (7.2)

  • Susan McLean. Circe, Scylla, The Siren, Melantho (7.1)

  • Barbara Minchinton, Housework Beast (2.1)

  • Katherine Murphy, Not Remembering My Childhood (3.1); To a Friend Afraid of Flying (3.1); For My Daughter, Dreading Dissection (3.1)

  • Cynthia Feldman Paley, Reflections from Kate’s Daughter (3.1)

  • Glenis Redmond. Lonely Girl, Train, Scripted Hope (7.1)

  • Carol Rose, Ex-nihilio (4.2)

  • Cristian Salazar, A Map of the United States of America (3.1)

  • Lorraine Schein, Remedios Varo, with Artwork by Zazie (3.2); The Goddess at Bergen-Belsen (4.2)

  • Emily Self, The Language of Paper Dolls (5.2)

  • Aseret Sin, Poetrix; Sister Ancestor (6.1)

  • Dana Sonnenschein. Man Ray's Muse (7.1)

  • Christina Springer, Dream Hunt (1.1); Juneteenth (1.1); Word Worlds (1.1)

  • Darko Suvin, The Taboo (1.1); Imagine a Fish (1.1)

  • Aidan Thompson: Maple Tree (7.2)

  • Leonard Trawick, Katherine Murphy (3.1)

  • Barbara Louise Ungar, Circe in Love (1.2)

Interviews (alpha by interviewer): See also: Articles | Reviews | Fiction | Poetry

  • Yolanda Hood, Interview with Tananarive Due (6.1)

  • Gwendolyn D. Pough, Interview with L. A. Banks (6.1)

Art (alpha by artist): See also: Articles | Reviews | Fiction | Poetry

  • Kat Ball, Stink of the Future (2.2)

  • Marion Epstein, Feminist Speculative Art (6.2)

  • Jennifer Jones, Untitled (3.1); Untitled (3.1)

  • America Meredith, Kelly Jean Church, Allison Francisco, Art from the “Three Sisters Show,” Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 1999 (2.2)

  • Shoshana Tomberg, Domestic Violence (3.1)

    Memorials See also: Articles | Reviews | Fiction | Poetry

  • Tillie Lerner Olsen (1912 - 2007) by Ardys of Berkeley (7.2)

  • Monica Sjoo by Starhawk (7.1)

  • Monique Wittig (1935 - 2003) by Gloria Orenstein. (7.2)