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old notes are living here for now:

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These are listed in order of quality/usefulness for now.


 * Source: Valentine, Genevieve. "Remembering Sheri S. Tepper, Eco-Feminist Sci-Fi Firebrand." NPR November 5, 2016, https://www.npr.org/2016/11/05/500668072/remembering-sheri-s-tepper-eco-feminist-sci-fi-firebrand.
 * This article is published by NPR, a reliable source. Contextualizes Tepper's life and her identity as a second-wave feminist and is the most recent credible source I could find.
 * Source: Maxwell, Elizabeth Anne. “The Problem of Violence in Sheri S. Tepper’s Feminist Utopia, the Gate to Women’s Country.” Hecate 37, no. 2 (2011): 110–127.
 * One of the more recent sources. Peer-reviewed. Examines the ethics of altering masculinity as a problem feminist writers must confront.
 * Source: Gomel, Elana. “The Plague of Utopias: Pestilence and the Apocalyptic Body.” Twentieth century literature 46, no. 4 (2000): 405–433.
 * Peer reviewed. This is a more eco-critical contextualization of Tepper's work. Gomel compares Tepper to Olivia Butler and argues that Tepper suggests that humanity itself is the virus plaguing life.
 * Source: Jones, Gwyneth A. Deconstructing the Starships : Science, Fiction, and Reality. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999.
 * Credible (University Press book). Situates Tepper into context of other feminist SF writers.
 * Source: Jowett, Lorna, "The Female State: Science Fiction Alternatives to the Patriarchy — Sheri Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country and Orson Scott Card's Homecoming Series," Science Fiction, Critical Frontiers, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2000, pp.169–192.
 * Reputable publisher/chapter in an edited volume makes this source credible. Focuses on a different work of Tepper's but establishes her contributions as a feminist SF writers.
 * Source: Gerald Jones. “Science Fiction.” New York Times Book Review. New York: New York Times Company, 1989, https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/01/books/science-fiction.html.
 * While not current, this article is published by the New York Times, a reliable source. Argues that Tepper's adventure demonstrates the power of science to save us.
 * Source: Beswick, Norman. "Ideology and Dogma in the 'Ferocious' SF Novels of Sheri S. Tepper." Foundation (1997): 32.
 * Older, but written by a semi-famous librarian (author of Resource Based Learning)