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SECONDARY SOURCES ON MARION ZIMMER BRADBURY’s SF


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Stephensen-Payne, Phil.  Marion Zimmer Bradley: Mistress of Magic [Bibliographies for the Avid Reader]
Galactic Central Publications (March 1991).

Arbur, Rosemarie.  Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne McCaffrey: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography.  Boston: G.K. Hall & Co, 1982.

ESSAYS, ARTICLES, BOOKS
Jones, Libby Falk.(1990)  “Gilman, Bradley, Piercy, and the Evolving Rhetoric of Feminist Utopias.” pp. 116-129 IN: Jones, Libby Falk (ed.); Goodwin, Sarah Webster (ed.); Pfaelzer, Jean (response); Elshtain, Jean Bethke (response) Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P; 1990. 

Kaler, Anne K. (1987) “Bradley and the Beguines: Marion Zimmer Bradley's Debt to the Beguinal Societies in Her Use of Sisterhood in Her Darkover Novels.” pp. 70-90 IN: Browne, Pat (ed.) Heroines of Popular Culture. Bowling Green, OH: Popular; 1987.

Hornum, Barbara.(1985) “Wife/Mother, Sorceress/Keeper, Amazon/Renunciate: Status Ambivalence and Conflicting Roles on the Planet Darkover.” pp. 153-163 IN: Weedman, Jane B. (ed.) Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Lubbock: Texas Tech P; 1985.

Wood, Diane S. (1985) “Gender Roles in the Darkover Novels of Marion Zimmer Bradley.”pp. 237-246 IN: Weedman, Jane B. (ed.) Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Lubbock: Texas Tech P; 1985.
Arbur, Rosemarie. (1985) Marion Zimmer Bradley.  Mercer Island, WA: Starmont; 1985.

Schwartz, Susan M. “Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ethic of Freedom.” pp. 73-88 IN: Staicar, Tom (ed.) The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write It. New York: Ungar; 1982.

Murphy, Laura. “Marion Zimmer Bradley.” pp. 77-80 IN: Cowart, David (ed.); Wymer, Thomas L. (ed. and preface); Disch, Thomas M. (foreword) Twentieth-Century American Science Fiction Writers Part I: A-L. Detroit, MI: Gale; 1981.

Breen, Walter. The Darkover Concordance. Berkeley CA: Pennyfarthing Press, 1979. 
Very comprehensive alphabetical guide to all things Darkover prior to 1979. Illustrated with fan art.

MENTIONS OF DARKOVER IN ARTICLES ON FEMINIST UTOPIAS

Damarin, Suzanne. (2004) “Chapter Three: Required Reading: Feminist Sci-Fi and Post-Millennial Curriculum.”
Counterpoints, Vol. 158, Science Fiction Curriculum, Cyborg Teachers, & Youth Culture(s) (2004), pp. 51-73

Sue Fisher Vaughn. (1991) “The Female Hero in Science Fiction and Fantasy: "Carrier-Bag" to "No-Road" Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 4, No. 4 (16), Special Issue on Female Heroes (1991), pp. 83-96.

Lynn F. Williams. (1987) “Everyone Belongs to Everyone Else: Marriage and the Family in Recent American Utopias 1965-1985.” Utopian Studies, No. 1 (1987), pp. 123-136. 

Russ, Joanna. (1981) “Recent Feminist Utopias.” 71-75 IN: Barr, Marleen S. (ed.) Future Females: A Critical Anthology. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State U Popular P; 1981.

Monk, Patricia. (1980) “Frankenstein's Daughters: The Problems of the Feminine Image in Science Fiction.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, Vol. 13, No. 3/4,Other Worlds: Fantasy and Science Fiction Since 1939 (SPRING/SUMMER 1980), pp. 15-27

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