51 Pearson, Carol. "Beyond Governance: Anarchist Feminism in the Utopian Novels of Dorothy Bryant, Marge Piercy, and Mary Staton." Alternative Futures: The Journal of Utopian Studies 4, No. 1 (1981): 126-135.. "Women's Fantasies and Feminist Utopias." Frontiers 2, No. 3 (1977): 50-61. This is a particularly useful essay in that it isolates many characteristics that are shared by these cultures. Pearson organizes her discussion around two early twentieth century utopias as well as Piercy, Russ, Le Guin, Bryant, Staton, and Tiptree. This article was revised and included Barr (1981) under the title "Coming Home: Four Feminist Utopias and Patriarchal Experience" (pp. 63-70. Many of the ideas in these two articles were reiterated in the final chapter, "The Kingdom Transfigured" in The Female Hero in American and British Literature, Carol Pearson and Katherine Pope, New York: Bowker, 1979. Rohrlich, Ruby and Elaine Hoffman Baruch, eds. Women in Search of Utopia: Mavericks and Mythmakers. New York: Schocken Books, 1984. The first three sections of this book are devoted to history and intentional communities past and present. The final section, "Visions of Utopia," is a helpful introduction to literary utopias and the issues pertaining to them. The whole is a solid introduction to utopian thought and experiment by women. Russ, Joanna. "Amor Vincit Feminam: The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies 7 (1980): 2-15. _. "Recent Feminist Utopias." Future Females: A Critical Anthology, Barr, 1981, pp. 71-85. A further discussion of the common values found in these works. Particularly good is her section on the rescue of the female child. Russ also discusses those values that are missing from these works: inherited status, material success or the desire for it, immortality, and the "desire to be better than." ( ). "Reflections on Science Fiction: An Interview with Joanna Russ." Quest: A Feminist Quarterly (Washington, D.C., Summer 1975). ( ). "Science Fiction and Feminism: The Work of Joanna Russ," by Marilynn Hacker. Chrysalis (Los Angeles, CA, No. 4, 1977). Schwartz, Susan. "Women and Science Fiction: New York Times Book Review." (2 May 1982): 11, 26, 27. Schweickart, Patrocino. "What If... Science and Technology in Feminist Utopias." Machina Ex Dea: Feminist Perspectives on Technology, Joan Rothschild, ed. Elmsford, NY: Pergamon, 1983. 198-211. Schweickart deals with the primitivism found in so many of these works with greater complexity than does Kumar. The basic difference in their arguments is that Kumar never questions the historical union between science and progress. Schweickart asserts that such questioning is the starting point for any analysis of feminist perspectives on technology.