Works About Tiptree

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  • Baggesen, Soren. “Utopia and Dystopia Pessimism: Le Guin’s THE WORD FOR WORLD IS FOREST and Tiptree’s ‘We Who Stole the Dream.’” SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES 14 (1987): 34-43.
  • Barr, Marleen S. “The Females Do the Fathering! Reading Resisting, and James Tiptree, Jr. SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES 13 (1986): 42-9. Rev. and rpt. In her ALIEN TO FEMININITY: SPECULATIVE FICTION AND FEMINIST THEORY. 1987: 19
  • ---. “Science Fiction’s Invisible Female Men: Joanna Russ’s ‘When It Changed’ and James Tiptree’s ‘The Women Men Don’t See.’” Chapter 5 of her LOST IN SPACE: PROBING FEMINIST SCIENCE FICTION AND BEYOND. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1993.
  • Blum, Joanne. “Return to the Myth in Fictions by LeGuin, Bryant, and Tiptree.” In her TRANSCENDING GENDER: THE MALE/FEMALE DOUBLE IN WOMEN’S FICTION. Ann Arbor: U of Mich P, 1988: 61-76.
  • Boulter,-Amanda. “Alice James Raccoona Tiptree Sheldon Jr.: Textual Personas in the Short Fiction of Alice Sheldon.”FOUNDATION:-THE-REVIEW-OF-SCIENCE-FICTION [London, England] 63 (1995 Spring): 5-31.
  • Dozois, Gardner R. The Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr. Borgo Pr , 1983.
  • Frisch,-Adam-J. “Toward New Sexual Identities: James Tiptree, Jr.” 48-59 IN Staicar-Tom, (ed.). THE FEMININE EYE: SCIENCE FICTION AND THE WOMEN WHO WRITE IT. New York : Ungar, 1982.
  • Gearhart, Nancy and Jean Ross. “Sheldon, Alice Hastings Bradley.” Entry in CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS 108. Detroit: Gale Research P, 1983: 43-50.
  • Hayler,-Barbara-J. “The Feminist Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr.: Women and Men as Aliens.” In SPECTRUM OF THE FANTASTIC: SEL. ESSAYS FROM SIXTH INTERNAT. CONF. ON FANTASTIC IN ARTS, ed. Palumbo-Donald. Westport, CT : Greenwood, 1988: 127-132
  • Heldreth,-Lillian-M. “ 'Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death': The Feminism and Fatalism of James Tiptree, Jr.” EXTRAPOLATION 23.1 (1982 Spring): 22-30.
  • Hollinger,-Veronica. “ 'The Most Grisly Truth': Responses to the Human Condition in the Works of James Tiptree, Jr.” EXTRAPOLATION 30.2 (1989 Summer): 117-132.
  • Lefanu, Sarah. “Who is Tiptree? What is She?” Chapter 11 of her FEMINISM AND SCIENCE FICTION. Bloomington, Indiana UP, 1989: 105-29.
  • Pei,-Lowry. “Poor Singletons: Definitions of Humanity in the Stories of James Tiptree, Jr.” SCIENCE-FICTION-STUDIES 6 (1979): 271-80.
  • Phillips, Julie. "Mars Needs Women: The True Fiction of James Tiptree Jr." VLS September, 1996:18-20.
  • Platt, Charles. “James Tiptree in DREAM MAKERS, Vol II: THE UNCOMMON MEN AND WOMEN WHO WRITE SCIENCE FICTION. 1983: 257-72.
  • Seal,-Julie-Luedtke. “ James Tiptree, Jr.: Fostering the Future, Not Condemning It.” EXTRAPOLATION 31.1 (1990 Spring): 73-82.
  • Siegel,-Mark. “Double-Souled Man: Immortality and Transcendence in the Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr.” 163-173 IN Yoke-Carl-B. (ed. & pref.); Hassler-Donald-M. (ed. pref. & introd.). DEATH AND THE SERPENT: IMMORTALITY IN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY. Westport, CT : Greenwood, 1985.
  • ---. JAMES TIPTREE, JR. Starmont Reader’s Guide 22. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1985.
  • ---. “Love Was the Plan, the Plan Was . . .: A True Story about James Tiptree, Jr.” FOUNDATION:-THE-REVIEW-OF-SCIENCE-FICTION [London, England] 44 (1988-1989 Winter): 5-13.
  • Silverberg, Robert. “Who is Tiptree, What is He?” Introduction to WARM WORLDS AND OTHERWISE. NY: Ballantine, 1975.
  • Smith, Jeff. “The Short, Happy Life of James Tiptree, Jr.” KHATRU, no. 7 (Feb. 1978): 163-73.
  • Steffen-Fluhr,-Nancy. “The Case of the Haploid Heart: Psychological Patterns in the Science Fiction of Alice Sheldon ('James Tiptree, Jr').” SCIENCE-FICTION-STUDIES 17.2 (1990 July) : 188-220.
  • Wolmark, Jenny. ALIENS AND OTHERS: SCIENCE FICTION, FEMINISM, AND POSTMODERNISM. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1994. See Chapter 4, “Troubles in Women’s Country,” esp. pp. 86-7.
  • Wood,-Susan. James Tiptree, Jr. 531-541 IN Bleiler-Everett-Franklin (ed.). Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. New York : Scribner's, 1982.


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