Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction

Cover of 2007 Prometheus Books edition

Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias is an anthology edited by Judith A. Little.

Editions

Part I: Human Nature and Reality
- Introduction
- A. What Does It Mean to Be Human?
  - "No Woman Born" by C.L. Moore
- B. What Are Women and Men Really Like?
  - "Survival Ship" by Judith Merril
  - "Abominable" by Carol Emshwiller
  - "Adam Marko's Journal; Male Compensation Theory" from The Y Chromosome by Leona Gom
  - "The Elizabeth Complex" by Karen Joy Fowler
- C. How Significant Is the Reproductive Difference?
  - "Bloodchild" by Octavia E. Butler
- D. The Concepts of "Woman" and "Nature"
  - "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" by Vonda N. McIntyre
  - "His Vegetable Wife" by Pat Murphy
- E. Why Is Language Important?
  - "Speech Sounds" by Octavia E. Butler

Part II: Dystopias and Utopias
- Introduction
- A. Dystopias: The Worst of All Possible Worlds
  - The Possible Present
  - "For the Sake of Grace" by Suzette Haden Elgin
  - "Pairpuppets" by Manuel von Loggem
  - "Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!" by Alice B. Sheldon ("Alice B. Sheldon, whose best-known pseudonym was James Tiptree, Jr., wrote this story as Racoona Sheldon")
  - Far in the Future
  - "Wives" by Lisa Tuttle
  - "Fears" by Pamela Sargent
  - "Jael's World" from The Female Man by Joanna Russ
- B. Separatist Utopias: Worlds of Difference
  - Why Separate?
  - "Daya Tells a Tale" from The Furies by Suzy McKee Charnas
  - "The Worlds of Jeannine and Joanna" from The Female Man by Joanna Russ
  - All-Female Societies and Planets
  - "Oath of the Free Amazons" from The Shattered Chain by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  - "Janet's World" from The Female Man by Joanna Russ
  - "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ
- C. Androgynous Utopias: Worlds of Equality
  - "X: A Fabulous Child's Story" by Lois Gould
  - "Interlocking Pieces by Molly Gloss
  - "Options" by John Varley