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To Write Like a Woman

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'''''To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction''''' ([[1995]]) reprints thirteen essays and one letter by [[Joanna Russ]], which were originally published in the 1970s and 1980s. These texts are divided into two sections: '''Part One''' regroups numbers 1 to 6, and '''Part Two''', 7 to 14.

[[Joanna Russ|Russ]] preceeds each essay (and the letter) with an introduction.

== List of contents ==

: Introduction by [[Sarah Lefanu]]
: Author's Introduction
# Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction
# Speculations: The Subjunctivity of Science fiction
# SF and Technology as Mystification
# ''Amor Vincit Foeminam'': The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction
# On the Fascination of Horror Stories, Including Lovecraft's
# ''A Boy and His Dog'': The Final Solution
# [[What Can a Heroine Do? or Why Women Can't Write]]
# Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic
# On Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
# Recent Feminist Utopias
# To Write "Like a Woman": Transformations of Identity in the Work of Willa Cather
# On "The Yellow Wallpaper"
# Is "Smashing" Erotic?
# Letter to Susan Koppelman
: Index

[[category:1995 Publications|To Write Like A Woman]]
[[category:Essays|To Write Like A Woman]]
[[Category:Essay collections|To Write Like a Woman]]

Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts

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'''''Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts: Feminist Essays''''' ([[1985]]), by [[Joanna Russ]], is, as its title indicates, a collection of feminist essays, most of which originally appeared in [[13th Moon]] or [[Sinister Wisdom]]. ("Not For Years But For Decades" originally appeared in [[The Coming Out Stories]] in [[1980]].)

Russ dedicated ''Magic Mommas...'' to [[Dale Spender]], "who is showing us the way", and praises Spender's "wonderful, crucial new book", [[Women of Ideas: What Men Have Done to Them]] in her introduction (p. 10).

''Magic Mommas...'' primarily focuses on matters related to women's sexuality, fantasies, and relationship to [[pornography]]. In her introduction, Russ disclaims that most of the essays are not offered as "illustrations of accurate theory" (p.16); she posits them as warnings ("go thou and do otherwise") instead. But she adds that she may "be too harsh on <nowiki>[her]</nowiki> past self", and tells the reader to decide.

Russ also excepts "[[Power and Helplessness in the Women's Movement]]" explicitly from this disclaimer.

The essay "[[Pornography By Women For Women, With Love]]" is one of [[Joanna Russ]]'s articles on the subject of [[slash]] fiction, and an early analysis of this phenomenon. (Russ also wrote another article for the [[Star Trek]] [[fanzine]], [http://www.agentwithstyle.com/nome08.htm NOME 8].)

== Table of Contents ==
* Introduction
* Not For Years But For Decades
* [[Power and Helplessness in the Women's Movement]]
* Being Against Pornography
* News From the Front
* [[Pornography By Women For Women, With Love]]
* Pornography and the Doubleness of Sex for Women

== Quotes ==

From the introduction, p. 10:
:Spender's formulation of feminist theory isn't final either, of course, but I'm going to propose as the primary demand of patriarchy what she chooses from [[Matilda Joslyn Gage]] ([[1873]])<sup>[[Woman, Church, and State|2]]</sup>: ''that women's resources be available, non-reciprocally and without pay, to men''. If men have an unreasonable and unjust double amount of authority (intellectual and other), self-esteem, time, energy, leisure, cultural importance, wealth, freedom, and so on, this is precisely because they have stolen our labor and the wealth it produces, our self-esteem, our claims to knowledge and achievement, and our possibilities for autonomy and freedom. We are not merely excluded from male activities and institutions; our resources have been appropriated by men as their own in a massive theft lasting for centuries.

From "News From the Front", p. 77:
:The feminism I know began as politics, not rules for living. To call X a feminist issue did not then mean that there was a good way to do X and a bad way, and that we were trying to replace the bad way with the good way. X was a feminist issue because it was the locus of various social pressures (which it made visible) and those social pressues were what feminism was all about. Makeup, for instance, is a feminist issue ''not because using makeup is anti-feminist and scrubbing your face is feminist but because makeup is compulsory''. Those who don't see the distinction are building a religion, not a politics.

== References ==
* [[Joanna Russ|Russ, Joanna]], '''Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts: Feminist Essays''', 1985, The Crossing Press, New York, 119 pages.

== Categories and Tags ==

[[category: 1985 Publications]]
[[Category: Essays]]
[[Category: Essay collections]]

Category:Essay collections

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[[Category:Essays|Collections]]
[[Category:Collections|Essays]]

Close to Home

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'''''Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression''''' ([[1984]]) is a collection of essays by [[Christine Delphy]], translated into English from the French by Diana Leonard, who also contributes a preface.

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== Contents ==

:Preface 7
# Introduction to the collection 15
# Women in stratification studies 28
# Sharing the same table: consumption and the family 40
# The main enemy 57
# Housework or domestic work 78
# Continuities and discontinuities in marriage and divorce 93
# Our friends and ourselves: the hidden foundations of various pseudo-feminist accounts 106
# Patriarchy, feminism and their intellectuals 138
# A materialist feminism is possible 154
# Protofeminism and antifeminism 182
# For a materialist feminism 211
:Bibliography 220
:Index 225

== Bibliographical Information ==
* ISBN 0-87023-453-6 cloth; 0-87023-454-4 paper

[[Category: 1984 Publications]]
[[Category: Theory]]
[[Category:Essay collections]]

User talk:Ide Cyan

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Hey Ide Cyan -- Would you care to write a paragraph or two about [[Materialist feminism]] ? I think it would be helpful, as we build out various analyses of works and trends within sf, to be able to refer to significant theories & approaches. --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 10:14, 6 February 2007 (PST)

: I mean to. I'm rereading [[Christine Delphy]] in the original French (after finding her in English translation first) these days. She literally wrote the book on that topic. --[[User:Ide Cyan|Ide Cyan]] 12:34, 6 February 2007 (PST)

:: Excellent. It will be great to have more on feminist theory in the wiki. I love this wiki! I think it will be a great resource. --[[User:128.122.73.84|128.122.73.84]] 13:49, 6 February 2007 (PST)

== cat cap ==

the cat cap is an issue - i get it wrong too. we should develop some sort of style guide, or adopt wikipedia's. i don't love wikipedia's style guide on this issue, but maybe it's a standard people will be familiar with. whatever we do, we should do something consistent! --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 10:16, 6 February 2007 (PST)

: There's also the issue of title formatting: whether to use italics of "quote marks" around a TV show's name, etc. A style guide (or a rough sketch of one) would be good. It would be handy if there was a page referencing all tags, or most common tags, but the endless Year of Birth / Death / Publication categories, because they begin with numbers, are all at the top of the search results if you try to pull the full list of [[Special:Categories|categories]]. --[[User:Ide Cyan|Ide Cyan]] 12:34, 6 February 2007 (PST)
:...Well, there's [[Special:Mostlinkedcategories|this page]] I've just noticed. *thud* --[[User:Ide Cyan|Ide Cyan]] 12:37, 6 February 2007 (PST)

Yah ... o god so much work. And so much of it that is not that fun to me. I have opinions (always) but never the inclination to actually start the thing, just to nitpick about it after someone else does it. Are you a grammarian / punctuationist? If neither of us are we should try to recruit other people who are. I haven't been doing so well in recruiting. I'm going to do it at WisCon and also in Boston over the next few months -- host wiki workshops & teas in my home, that sort of thing. liz often has great ideas on this kind of thing too. maybe i should just post on the blog & ask for other suggestions. --[[User:128.122.73.84|128.122.73.84]] 13:49, 6 February 2007 (PST)

Annoying Plot Conventions, Devices, Contrivances

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Plot Devices that Make You Roll Your Eyes

* a woman character is raped or is in danger of being raped -- the eternal [[rapability]] of female characters

* a female character dies in childbirth

* "convenient" circumstances prevent a female character from going through with her decision to have an abortion (cf. Robin in ''[[V]]'', whose alien hybrid fetus's invasive vascularisation made it impossible to remove without killing her; spontaneous miscarriages and so forth) -- therefore rendering women's reproductive choices inconsequent when that oh-so-controversial subject is broached

* using female characters to voice misogynistic and/or patriarchal ideas because it would be "too obvious" to use male characters -- victim-blaming, in short

* using evolutionary biology or the selfish gene theory as the primary reason a male and female character are drawn together sexually (''Darwin's Radio'' by Bear), or why a female character cannot possibly resist the man's man that will make the best sire of her children (''Lucifer's Hammer'' by Niven)

* the competent female needs rescuing by the man
* damsel in distress / perils of Pauline - women set up merely to be rescued
* women in refrigerators (see http://violetcorona.blogspot.com/2006/10/women-in-refrigerators.html ) - female characters of whatever level of characterization depicted as more apt to be rescued, more in need of rescuing, more often in physical danger
* innocent and universally loveable female characters that do not develop a sex drive or sex appeal until they turn evil (Doppleganger Willow from earlier in [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]], Fred from [[Angel]]) - correlated with the amount of cleavage/leg shown.

* alien women of ANY species will inevitably be irresistably attracted to the only mid-30s male on a particular starship ([[Star Trek]], I'm looking at YOU) - even if it causes an interstellar incident
** related: females of alien species always have extremely large breasts, located in the exact same location as those of human females (i.e. they look exactly like human women except for a charming set of pointy ears, forhead ridges or swirly haircut that serves only to make them more exotic to the male characters)

* a man's casual slap (or threatened slap) of a woman that is scarcely worth mentioning again in the story and apparently does not actually bother the woman; or maybe she likes it because he has now shown himself to be a real man. Seen in Frank Miller's "Sin City" (she liked it); Rob Reiner's "The Princess Bride" (He raises the back of his hand threateningly; she flinches. "That was a warning, Highness. The next time, my hand flies on its own, for where I come from, there are penalties when a woman lies."). This is entirely distinguishable from a man and a woman involved in a physical fight, as in [[Joss Whedon]]'s "[[Firefly]]" between Mal and Saffron, or Buffy and Spike, or any slayer and various villains. "The Slap" is often stated plainly as a representation of patriarchy, as when the woman has crossed a boundary; the man may say he doesn't like to hit women but he'll make an exception, or she's crossed a line, etc. An obvious use of gendered violence to police patriarchal rules, present in both representations of the protagonists and villains.

===Contiguous lists and related rants===

* "[[The Clichés from Outer Space]]" ([[1984]]), by Joanna Russ.

* ''See also [[Clichés, Archetypes, Stereotypes of Female Characters in SF]]''
* ''See also [[Gendered plot devices]]''

[[Category:Plot]]

Category:Women writers adopting neuter names

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Many writers have adopted a neuter name, either by using their initials only or by some other method. This is generally done by women wishing to avoid being categorised as "women writers", or sometimes by publishers on a woman's behalf deciding that her real name is not appropriate.

[[Category:Writers]]
[[Category:Business of SF]]
[[Category:Linguistics]]

Lesbian gaze

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The '''lesbian gaze''' is a [[queer theory|queer]] response to the [[male gaze]]. The notion of gaze considers how an [[audience]] perceives a work of art, particularly people within the work of art. Theories of the male gaze particularly consider the presumed audience for a work to be male; creation of a work in relation to the male gaze is an exercise of patriarchal power. The presentation of a woman is presumed to be in part an exercise of sexuality. The lesbian gaze disrupts -- queers -- the expectation of a male gaze, and also raises questions of identification, objectification, and attraction.

Examples of use of lesbian gaze in feminist SF criticism include:
* Atara Stein, "''Xena: Warrior Princess'', the Lesbian Gaze, and the Construction of a Feminist Heroine", ''Whoosh'' Issue #24, available at http://www.whoosh.org/issue24/stein1.html

Further reading:
* "identification vs. attraction," 2006 Nov. 24, [http://rivendellrose.livejournal.com/468812.html post and discussion thread] thru 2006 Dec. 11, at ''The Bookworm''

''See also [[Audience Theory]]''

[[Category:Theory|Lesbian gaze]]

List of feminist SF journals

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==Feminist SF==
* [[FemSpec]] (academic and art)
* [[The Witch and the Chameleon]] (fanzine)

==Primarily Feminist Criticism or Art/Lit, Occasionally SF==
* [[Sinister Wisdom]]

==Primarily SF but with Frequent or Strong Feminist Presence==
* [[Strange Horizons (journal)]]
* [[Slayage]]: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies (http://slayage.tv/)
* [[Whoosh!]] The Journal of the International Association of Xena Studies (http://www.whoosh.org/)

[[Category:Journals]]

Index to online research resources in SF studies

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==SF & Fandom Resources==
* [http://isfdb.tamu.edu/ ISFDB (Internet Science Fiction Database)] and [http://isfdb.tamu.edu/wiki/ isfdb wiki]
* [http://www.infoshop.org/sf/index.php/Main_Page InfoShop pages on SF/F]
* [http://www.sfbooklist.co.uk/ SFbooklist / SF & F Bibliography]
* [http://www.scifi.com/sfweekly/ Science Fiction Weekly]
* [http://www.sfsite.com/ SF Site]
* [http://www.sffworld.com/ SFFWorld.com]
* [http://www.locusmag.com/ Locus Magazine]
* [http://library.tamu.edu/cushing/sffrd/ SF & F Research Database] - An online index to over 60,000 historical and critical items about science fiction, fantasy and horror; Compiled by [[Hal W. Hall]]
* [http://www.hycyber.com/SF/author_pseudo.html Science Fiction Author Pseudonyms]
* [http://contento.best.vwh.net/ Index to SF Anthologies & Collections, Combined Edition] by William G. Contento
* [http://www.sff.net/people/diccon/CYINDEX.HTM Fancyclopedia II] (1959)
* [http://fanac.org/ The Fan History Project] (fanac.org)
* [http://www.fandata.com/ Fandata]
* [http://www.efanzines.com/ eFanZines]
* [http://www.sff.net/ SFF.net]
* [http://library.tamu.edu/cushing/sffrd/ Hal Hall's SF & Fantasy Research Database]

==Feminist & Women's Studies==
* [http://www.lothene.demon.co.uk/others/womenprehist.html Women as Warriors in Prehistory, the Ancient World and up to the 7th Century outside Europe]

[[category:Scholarship]]

IAFA

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#REDIRECT [[International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts]]

Lord Ruthven Assembly

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Dedicated to the scholarly study of the vampire in the arts. Associated with the [[IAFA]].

[[Category:Scholarly Associations]]

List of SF journals

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=Primarily Fiction=
* Analog
* Astounding Science-Fiction
* Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction (aka "Asimov's")
* Century (mostly SF, some non-SF fiction)
* Crank!
* Fantastic
* The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (aka FSF or F&SF)
* Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/)
* Leviathan
* Tangent (some non-SF fiction)
* Trampoline
* Worlds of If

=Mixed=
* Fantastic Metropolis (http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com)
* SF Eye
* [[Strange Horizons (journal)]] (http://www.strangehorizons.com/)
* Tangent Online

=Primarily Critical=
* [[Extrapolation]]
* [[Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts]]
* [[FemSpec]]
* [[Foundation]]: The International Review of Science Fiction
* [[The Internet Review of Science Fiction]] (http://www.irosf.com/)
* [[The New York Review of Science Fiction]]
* [[Science-Fiction Studies]], 1973- (http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/)
* [[Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies]]
* [[Journal of Mythic Arts]]
* [[Slayage]]: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies (http://slayage.tv/)
* [[Journal of Utopian Studies]]
* [[Whoosh!]] The Journal of the International Association of Xena Studies (http://www.whoosh.org/)

=Trade Press=
* Locus

=FanZines=
* The Witch and the Chameleon

[[Category:Journals]]
[[Category:Scholarship]]

List of SF journals

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=Primarily Fiction=
* Analog
* Astounding Science-Fiction
* Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction (aka "Asimov's")
* Century (mostly SF, some non-SF fiction)
* Crank!
* Fantastic
* The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (aka FSF or F&SF)
* Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/)
* Leviathan
* Tangent (some non-SF fiction)
* Trampoline
* Worlds of If

=Mixed=
* Fantastic Metropolis (http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com)
* SF Eye
* [[Strange Horizons (journal)]] (http://www.strangehorizons.com/)
* Tangent Online

=Primarily Critical=
* [[Extrapolation]]
* [[FemSpec]]
* [[Foundation]]: The International Review of Science Fiction
* [[The Internet Review of Science Fiction]] (http://www.irosf.com/)
* [[The New York Review of Science Fiction]]
* [[Science-Fiction Studies]], 1973- (http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/)
* [[Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies]]
* [[Journal of Mythic Arts]]
* [[Slayage]]: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies (http://slayage.tv/)
* [[Journal of Utopian Studies]]
* [[Whoosh!]] The Journal of the International Association of Xena Studies (http://www.whoosh.org/)

=Trade Press=
* Locus

=FanZines=
* The Witch and the Chameleon

[[Category:Journals]]
[[Category:Scholarship]]

International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts

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The '''International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts''' (IAFA) is "a scholarly association devoted to the study of the fantastic (broadly defined) as it appears in literature, film, and the other arts."

* [http://www.iafa.org/ IAFA.org]

IAFA publishes ''The Journal fo the Fantastic in the Arts'' and hosts regular conferences.

[[Category:Scholarly Associations]]

List of feminist SF journals

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==Feminist SF==
* [[FemSpec]] (academic and art)
* [[The Witch and the Chameleon]] (fanzine)

==Primarily Feminist Criticism, Occasionally SF==
* [[Sinister Wisdom]]

==Primarily Feminist Art/Lit, Occasionally SF==

==Primarily SF but with Frequent or Strong Feminist Presence==
* [[Strange Horizons (journal)]]
* [[Slayage]]: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies (http://slayage.tv/)
* [[Whoosh!]] The Journal of the International Association of Xena Studies (http://www.whoosh.org/)

[[Category:Journals]]

List of SF journals

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=Primarily Fiction=
* Analog
* Astounding Science-Fiction
* Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction (aka "Asimov's")
* Century (mostly SF, some non-SF fiction)
* Crank!
* Fantastic
* The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (aka FSF or F&SF)
* Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/)
* Leviathan
* Tangent (some non-SF fiction)
* Trampoline
* Worlds of If

=Mixed=
* Fantastic Metropolis (http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com)
* SF Eye
* [[Strange Horizons (journal)]] (http://www.strangehorizons.com/)
* Tangent Online

=Primarily Critical=
* [[Extrapolation]]
* [[FemSpec]]
* [[Foundation]]: The International Review of Science Fiction
* [[The Internet Review of Science Fiction]] (http://www.irosf.com/)
* [[The New York Review of Science Fiction]]
* [[Science-Fiction Studies]], 1973- (http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/)
* [[Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies]]
* [[Journal of Mythic Arts]]
* [[Slayage]]: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies (http://slayage.tv/)
* [[Journal of Utopian Studies]]
* [[Whoosh!]] The Journal of the International Association of Xena Studies (http://www.whoosh.org/)

=Trade Press=
* Locus

=FanZines=
* The Witch and the Chameleon

[[Category:Journals]]

List of SF journals

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=Primarily Fiction=
* The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (aka FSF or F&SF)
* Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction (aka "Asimov's")
* Analog
* Leviathan
* Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/)
* Trampoline
* Astounding Science-Fiction
* Fantastic
* Worlds of If
* Century (mostly SF, some non-SF fiction)
* Tangent (some non-SF fiction)
* Crank!

=Mixed=
* Fantastic Metropolis (http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com)
* SF Eye
* [[Strange Horizons (journal)]] (http://www.strangehorizons.com/)
* Tangent Online

=Primarily Critical=
* [[Extrapolation]]
* [[FemSpec]]
* [[Foundation]]: The International Review of Science Fiction
* [[The Internet Review of Science Fiction]] (http://www.irosf.com/)
* [[The New York Review of Science Fiction]]
* [[Science-Fiction Studies]], 1973- (http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/)
* [[Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies]]
* [[Journal of Mythic Arts]]
* [[Slayage]]: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies (http://slayage.tv/)
* [[Journal of Utopian Studies]]
* [[Whoosh!]] The Journal of the International Association of Xena Studies (http://www.whoosh.org/)

=Trade Press=
* Locus

=FanZines=
* The Witch and the Chameleon

[[Category:Journals]]

List of SF journals

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=Primarily Fiction=
* The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (aka FSF or F&SF)
* Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction (aka "Asimov's")
* Analog
* Leviathan
* Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/)
* Trampoline
* Astounding Science-Fiction
* Fantastic
* Worlds of If
* Century (mostly SF, some non-SF fiction)
* Tangent (some non-SF fiction)
* Crank!

=Mixed=
* Fantastic Metropolis (http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com)
* SF Eye
* [[Strange Horizons (journal)]] (http://www.strangehorizons.com/)
* Tangent Online

=Primarily Critical=
* [[Extrapolation]]
* [[FemSpec]]
* [[Foundation]]: The International Review of Science Fiction
* [[The Internet Review of Science Fiction]] (http://www.irosf.com/)
* [[The New York Review of Science Fiction]]
* [[Science-Fiction Studies]], 1973- (http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/)
* [[Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies]]
* [[Slayage]]: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies (http://slayage.tv/)
* [[Journal of Utopian Studies]]
* [[Whoosh!]] The Journal of the International Association of Xena Studies (http://www.whoosh.org/)

=Trade Press=
* Locus

=FanZines=
* The Witch and the Chameleon

[[Category:Journals]]

List of SF journals

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=Primarily Fiction=
* The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (aka FSF or F&SF)
* Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction (aka "Asimov's")
* Analog
* Leviathan
* Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/)
* Trampoline
* Astounding Science-Fiction
* Fantastic
* Worlds of If
* Century (mostly SF, some non-SF fiction)
* Tangent (some non-SF fiction)
* Crank!

=Mixed=
* Strange Horizons (http://www.strangehorizons.com/)
* SF Eye
* Tangent Online
* Fantastic Metropolis (http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com)

=Primarily Critical=
* [[Extrapolation]]
* [[FemSpec]]
* [[Foundation]]: The International Review of Science Fiction
* [[The Internet Review of Science Fiction]] (http://www.irosf.com/)
* [[The New York Review of Science Fiction]]
* [[Science-Fiction Studies]], 1973- (http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/)
* [[Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies]]
* [[Slayage]]: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies (http://slayage.tv/)
* [[Journal of Utopian Studies]]
* [[Whoosh!]] The Journal of the International Association of Xena Studies (http://www.whoosh.org/)

=Trade Press=
* Locus

=FanZines=
* The Witch and the Chameleon

[[Category:Journals]]

Marvels & Tales

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[http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/MarvelsHome/Marvels_Tales.html Marvels & Tales Home Page]

[[Category:Journals]]

Main Page

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Current highlighted projects:

* [[Female Friendships]] - works that highlight or feature or have critical female friendships
* [[Communication Guidelines]] - Drafting feminist guidelines for communicating, including how to argue effectively, how to be aware of dynamics & meta-issues in conversations, how to keep conversations effective or to kill them if not
* [[Annoying Plot Conventions, Devices, Contrivances]] about gender or things that happen to female characters that make you roll your eyes
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* add your [[suggestions]] and ideas!
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*** the [[Black Warrior Woman]]
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* what's the [[mission|feministSF wiki]]?
** what's the FSFwiki [[mission]]?
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** why aren't you just putting this stuff on [[wikipedia]]?
** "can I do it?" yes. Anybody can edit text -- go ahead, try it! Click "edit" at the top of the page ... (Except for this first page ... You have to log in & create a userID to edit the first page, a protection added because of linkspam.) See the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] or the [[QuickCheatSheet|Quick Cheat Sheet]]
*** want to do more?: If you want to be a super-editor and help do initial technical configurations of the wiki, write [[User:Lquilter|Laura Quilter]] or lquilter at lquilter.net with "fsfwiki" in the subject line.
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Female friendships

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Women's relationships are underrepresented in SF generally, in part as a consequence of the underrepresentation of female characters and female lives. (need more discussion)

=Types of Female Relationships=

==Female Friendships==

* Cordelia Vorkosigan / Alys Vorpatril
* Bujold / Ista & her messenger girl
* women of Cetaganda
* Vonda McIntyre's work
* Marion Zimmer Bradley / Darkover
* narrator & her best friend in Atwood's ''Handmaid's Tale''
* Zenna Henderson
* Anne McCaffrey / Dragonsong
* Jean Grey / Storm
* Oracle & Huntress
* Crusher & Troi
* Snow White & Rose Red
* Aimee & Rae (Robin McKinley)
* Peony & Rosie (Robin McKinley)
* Merchant & Beauty (Robin McKinley)
* ''Sunshine'' (Robin McKinley)
* Steven Brust / Taltos
* Buffy & Willow
* Inara & Kaylie in "Firefly" ... Kaylie & River in "Firefly"
* The Runaways / Brian K. Vaughan
* Inanna & Ninshubar (goddess friends)
* J. F. Rivkin's Silverglass books
* Laurie Marks Elemental Logic series
* grown-up Tenar (Lark, Moss, Heather, Therru)
* Uglies trilogy / Scott Westerfeld
* Geoff Ryman / ''The Warrior Who Carried Life''
* Lois McMaster Bujold / Chalion (1st book) - girl friends
* Marie Jakober / ''Even the Stones'' has a queen protagonist & her best female friend / bard
* Margaret Atwood ''Robber Bride'' and ''Cat's Eye''
* Sheri Tepper ''Gibbon's Decline and Fall''
* C. J. Cherryh / pilot/navigator in ''Heavy Time'' and ''Hellburner''
* C. J. Cherryh / ''Cyteen'' / Ariane Emory II - her best non-azi friend; Ari's pair of azi
* C.J. Cherryh / ''Rimrunners'' Bet wants female friends
* Shakespeare / Othello - Desdemona & Bianca

==Female Buddies / Compañeras==

Female buddies are the female counterparts to classic male buddy relationships such as Frodo and Sam. The relationship involves more than casual or even close friendship; it involves deep love, trust, and affection. There may be mythic elements to it. Sexuality, while often present as a subtext, is not the defining element of the relationship--this distinguishes the mythic buddy relationship from a love relationship.

* Xena / Gabrielle
* Magda / Jaelle (Marion Zimmer Bradley ''The Shattered Chain'')
* Frostflower & Thorn (Phyllis Ann Karr, ''Frostflower and Thorn'' (1980))
* Tarma & Kethrys (Mercedes Lackey, ''Oathbound'', etc.)
* Cirocco & Gabby (John Varley's Titan, Wizard, Demon)
* many short stories in the ''Swords and Sorceress'' series edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley
* Steerswoman series / Rosemary Kirstein
* Naomi Kritzer / ''Freedom's Gate'' and sequels

==Other suggestions==
* Poul Anderson ''Virgin Planet'' (I can't believe this was suggested but I'm listing it anyway)
* Eleanor Arnason: A Woman of the Iron People
* Marion Zimmer Bradley Avalon series
* Suzy McKee Charnas: Holdfast Chronicles
* Charles de Lint: (various)
* Kate Elliott: Jaran series
* Nicola Griffith: Slow River
* Andrea Hairston: Mindscape
* Robert Heinlein's female characters (really? I don't recall that)
* Laurie Marks: Elemental Logic series
* Terry Moore, ''Strangers in Paradise'' (Katchoo and Francine)
* Alastair Reynolds: Pushing Ice ("women's friendships can't be trusted")
* Spider Robinson - Night of Power (wife & stepdaughter); Stardancer series last book (main character & roommate); Lady Calahan in Calahan series
* Don Sakers: Dance for the Ivory Madonna
* Melissa Scott: Trouble and Her Friends
* T. L. Sherred ''Alien Island''
* Jane Yolen: The Mermaid's Three Wisdoms
* Jane Yolen: Sister Light, Sister Dark

=About This Entry=

==History of Inquiry==

[http://netmouse.livejournal.com/237254.html Netmouse] on 2006/9/15 raised the question: <B>Where are all the women friends in SF?</B>, citing as male friendships the examples of Frodo and Sam, Gandalf and Sam, Han Solo and Chewbacca, Yoda and Obi-wan, Spock and Kirk.

==Links & References==

* http://netmouse.livejournal.com/237254.html Netmouse, 2006/9/15

[[Category:Reading & Media Lists|Buddies, Female]]

Feminist SF timeline

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A Brief History of Feminist SF and Women in SF

{{spoiler}}

==BF (Before <I>Frankenstein</I>)==

SF per se did not exist, but many of the stories that were told, and eventually published, relied on fantastical premises of one sort or another, often including magical, religious, and mythical imagery, beings or events. The imagined civilization, whether it be utopian, the Kingdom of Heaven, or otherwise, cropped up here and there.

* [[1405]] [[Christine de Pizan]], [[The Book of the City of Ladies]]
* [[1666]] [[Margaret Cavendish]], [[The Blazing World]]
* [[1762]] [[Sarah Scott]], [[A Description of Millennium Hall]]
* [[1794]] [[Ann Radcliffe]], [[The Mysteries of Udolpho]] (quintessential gothic novel; supernatural events ultimately shown to be non-supernatural)
* [[1798]]; rev. [[1803]] [[Jane Austen]], [[Northanger Abbey]] (a satirical gothic novel)

==Nineteenth Century CE: After <I>Frankenstein</I> (1818-1919)==

The early 19th century formats were still shaping and being developed. [[Gothic]] novels remained popular, with supernatural or possibly supernatural elements. Mary Shelley's [[Frankenstein]] emerged in part from this tradition.

In the mid-later part of the 19th century, a wide variety of [[utopian]] stories emerged from social and utopian movements. A conscious feminism picked up on many of the themes of the suffragettes, and produced specifically gender-based attacks on the patriarchy, positing that a female society might be wiser, more peaceful, more humane.

The late-19th century fascination with the supernatural led to many supernatural and [[ghost stories]]; relatedly, the themes in [[gothic]] novels continued to often include supernatural aspects.

The late 19th and early 20th century saw a suffragette [[backlash]] in literature: novels in which [[humorless]] women take over the world, for good or for ill; valiant men with a sense of humor often took it right back to the satisfaction of both sexes.

* [[1818]] [[Mary Shelley]], [[Frankenstein]]
* [[1827]] [[Jane Webb Loudon]], [[The Mummy!: A Tale of the Twentieth Century]]

* [[1872]] [[J. Sheridan Le Fanu]], [["Carmilla"]] (an early, possibly the first, lesbian vampire story published)
* [[1880-81]] [[Mary E. Bradley]] publishes [[Mizora: A Prophecy]]
* [[1892]] [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]] publishes "[[The Yellow Wallpaper]]" turning the ghost story on its head in an early feminist critique of what [[Betty Friedan]] later named "the feminine mystique".

* [[1915]] [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]] publishes [[Herland]]
* [[1918]] [[Frances Stevens]] publishes [[Citadel of Fear]]
* [[1918]] [[Gertrude Franklin Atherton]] publishes [[The White Morning]]

==The 20th Century: After the Great War (1920-1945)==
The pulp era began, and brought with it women writers, often writing [[pseudonymously]] or under [[gender-ambiguous names]], such as [[C.L. Moore]].

Strong socialist and fascist currents in reaction to economic crises in Europe and North America generated a number of radical critiques of fascism and totalitarianism, including several important works from female writers.

* [[1926]] [[Thea von Harbou]] publishes [[Metropolis]]
* [[1926]] [[Sylvia Townsend Warner]] publishes [[Lolly Willowes]]
* [[1928]] [[Virginia Woolf]] publishes [[Orlando]]
* [[1935]] [[Katharine Burdekin]] publishes [[The End of This Day's Business]]
* [[1940]] [[Karin Boye]] publishes [[Kallocain]]
* [[1941]] First appearance of [[Wonder Woman]], one of the first female [[superheroes]]

==The 20th Century: After WW2 (1945-1967)==
SF popularity continues to grow, and male and female writers enter the field in increasing numbers. Women still frequently write with pseudonyms or gender-ambiguous names, or pseudonymously with male writers using a male pseudonym.

In US SF, anxieties over nuclear war, Communism, and the changing roles of women during and after WW2 sometimes played out in gender-related SF. A number of "[[war of the sexes]]" stories appeared, often depicting the society run by women as a hive-like metaphor for socialism. As in the suffragette backlash, the societies run by women were authoritarian, humorless, dull, and lacked creative fire and ingenuity, and they were often static or even dying societies.

Prominent new writers in the '40s include [[Judith Merril]], [[Leigh Brackett]] and [[Miriam Allen deFord]].

* 1948 [[Judith Merril]] publishes [["That Only a Mother"]]
* 1948 [[Shirley Jackson]] publishes [["The Lottery"]]
* 1948 [[Lisa Ben]] publishes [["New Year's Day"]], the first modern "gay identity" SF story
* 1948 [[Wilmar Shiras]] publishes [["In Hiding"]], which was later developed into a novel, ''[[Children of the Atom]]'' (1953)

Prominent new women writers in the '50s include [[Katharine MacLean]], [[Margaret St. Clair]], [[Zenna Henderson]], and [[Andre Norton]].

* 1950 [[Judith Merril]] publishes ''[[Shadow on the Hearth]]''
* 1952 [[Zenna Henderson]] begins publishing [[The People]] series
* 1953 [[Judith Merril]] published [[Daughters of Earth]]
* 1954 "[[Femizine]]" An "all female" SF fan zine created in England, later revealed to be a hoax.

Prominent new women writers in the '60s are almost too many to name here but a selection include: [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]], [[Rosel George Brown]], [[Sonya Dorman]], [[Carol Emshwiller]], [[Sylvia Louise Engdahl]], [[Phyllis Gotlieb]], [[Madeleine L'Engle]], [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], [[Anne McCaffrey]], [[Naomi Mitchison]], [[Joanna Russ]], [[James Tiptree, Jr.]], [[Kate Wilhelm]], and many others. Plus, [[Samuel R. Delany]].

* [[1960]] [[Theodore Sturgeon]] publishes ''[[Venus Plus X]]''
* [[1961]] [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] publishes ''[[The Door Through Space]]''
* [[1962]] [[Naomi Mitchison]] publishes ''[[Memoirs of a Spacewoman]]''
* [[1962]] [[Madeleine L'Engle]] publishes ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]''
* [[1962]] [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] publishes ''[[Planet Savers]]'', first novel in the [[Darkover]] series
* [[1966]] [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] publishes her first two novels, ''[[Rocannon's World]]'' and ''[[Planet of Exile]]''
* [[1966]] [[Rosel George Brown]] publishes ''[[Sibyl Sue Blue]]''
* [[1967]] [[Pamela Zoline]]'s publishes her story [["The Heat Death of the Universe"]] in Michael Moorcock's ''New Worlds''
* [[1967]] [[Anna Kavan]] publishes ''[[Ice]]''
* [[1967]] Harlan Ellison's publishes ''[[Dangerous Visions]]'', a ground-breaking anthology including work by Delany, Emshwiller, and Sturgeon

==The Golden Age of Feminist SF (1968-1979) ==

[[Lesbian separatism]] and [[Gay Liberation]] made strong impacts on feminist SF, and the developing world of [[fanfic]]. Many more women entered the field. A feminist backlash became prominent, focusing less on hive-like socialist societies and more on lesbianism and male fears of sexual redundancy.

* [[1968]] [[Joanna Russ]] publishes [[Picnic on Paradise]]
* [[1968]] [[Uhura|Lt. Uhura]] and Captain Kirk debut the first interracial kiss on American TV in "Plato's Stepchildren", "[[Star Trek]]" Season 3
* [[1968]] [[Samuel R. Delany]] publishes [[Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand]], a major novel with a gay protagonist
* [[1968]] [[Anne McCaffrey]] becomes the first woman to win a [[Hugo Award]] for fiction, for the novella "[[Weyr Search]]", which was later incorporated into the novel ''[[Dragonflight]]''
* [[1969]] [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] publishes [[The Left Hand of Darkness]]
* [[1971]] [[Monique Wittig]] publishes [[Les Guérillères]]
* [[1971]] [[Dorothy Bryant]] publishes [[The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You]], which stylistically echoes late 19th century threads of metaphoric fiction and paves the way for [[New Age fiction]]
* [[1972]] [[Joanna Russ]] publishes "[[When It Changed]]"
* [[1973] [[James Tiptree, Jr.]] publishes "[[The Girl Who Was Plugged In]]"
* [[1974]] [[Suzy McKee Charnas]] publishes [[Walk to the End of the World]], first in the [[Holdfast Series]]
* [[1974]] [[Pamela Sargent]] publishes [[Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Stories by Women about Women]], the first anthology dedicated to women in SF
* [[1974]] [[Diane Marchant]] publishes the first known Star Trek slash, "A Fragment Out of Time," an oblique Kirk/Spock story
* [[1975]] [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] publishes [[The Heritage of Hastur]]
* [[1975]] [[Tanith Lee]] publishes [[The Birthgrave]]
* [[1975]] [[Naomi Mitchison]] publishes [[Solution Three]]
* [[1975]] [[Joanna Russ]] publishes [[The Female Man]]
* [[1975]] The "[[Women in Science Fiction Symposium|Women in Science Fiction]]" symposium, edited by [[Jeffrey D. Smith]], is published in [[Khatru]] 3&4
* [[1975]] Robert Silverberg describes [[James Tiptree, Jr.]]'s writing as "ineluctibly masculine" in the introduction to [[Warm Worlds and Otherwise]], apparently attempting to dispel rumors that Tiptree is female
* [[1976]] [[Susan Wood]] sets up a feminist panel at [[MidAmericon]], apparently the first panel on "women and science fiction", which leads ultimately to the founding of [[A Women's Apa]].
* [[1976]] [[Samuel R. Delany]] publishes [[Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia]]
* [[1976]] [[Marge Piercy]] publishes [[Woman on the Edge of Time]]
* [[1976]] [[Carol Seajay]] begins [[Feminist Bookstore News]], a selection tool geared toward women's bookstores; an SF column begins -- ? when. [[Susanna Sturgis]] is the long-time SF columnist.
* [[1977]] The first [[WisCon]] is held in Madison, Wisconsin.
* [[1977]] an all-women's issue of <I>[[Analog]]</I> published
* [[1978]] A "room of our own" opened at Westercon in Vancouver by [[Susan Wood]], as a women's space
* [[1978]] E.M. Broner publishes [[A Weave of Women]]
* [[1978]] Vonda McIntyre publishes [[Dreamsnake]]
* [[1979]] The gay/lesbian (eventually glbt) bookstore "[[A Different Light]]" opens, naming itself after [[Elizabeth A. Lynn]]'s novel of the same name.
* [[1979]] Octavia Butler publishes [[Kindred]]
* [[1979]] Sally Miller Gearheart publishes [[The Wanderground]]
* [[1979]] [[Ridley Scott]]'s [[Alien]] features [[Ellen Ripley]], the first significant female action hero in a major American film series

==The Eighties: Cyberpunk & "Post-Feminism" (1980-1990)==

<I>"I'll be a post-feminist in the post-patriarchy."</I>

The [[feminist sex wars]] reach their peak in the 80s, not coincidentally at the same time that [[women's erotica]] is enjoying a boom. SF in general shows a much greater level of sexual explicitness, and [[fanfic]] gets naughty and needs a spanking.

[[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]'s [[The Mists of Avalon]] kicks off a new thread of novels portraying [[women's spirituality]] and goddess-based religions, ultimately feeding into the New Age fiction trend. [[The Mists of Avalon]] also initiated a popular trend of reenvisioning histories, myths, and iconic stories from feminist or subaltern perspectives.

Numerous women's presses and bookstores are founded in the 1970s with the collective energy of the feminist movement and lesbian separatists; lesbian & gay-themed lines, presses, and bookstores followed shortly thereafter.

The English-speaking world discovers magical realism, and numerous important new works are published or translated into English.

The bisexual, goth, androgynous, vampire thing picks up steam in the 80s.

* [[1980]] Octavia Butler publishes Wild Seed
* [[1980]] Elizabeth Lynn publishes Northern Girl
* 1980 Kate Wilhelm publishes Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

* 1981 Julian May publishes The Many Colored Lands (first in Pleiocene Cycle)
* 1981 New Victoria publishes WomanSpace: Future and Fantasy, Stories and Art by Women
* 1981 Elisabeth Vonarburg publishes La Silence de la Cite; translated into English in 1988 as The Silent City

* 1982 Tanith Lee publishes The Silver Metal Lover
* 1982 Smith College hosted a 3-week symposium on feminist speculative fiction

* [[1983]] [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] publishes [[The Mists of Avalon]]
* Mary Gentle publishes Witchbreed
* [[1983]] [[Joanna Russ]] publishes [[How to Supress Women's Writing]]

* [[1984]] Suzette Haden Elgin publishes [[Native Tongue]]
* [[1984]] Marion Zimmer Bradley publishes [[Sword and Sorceress]], the first in a series of Bradley-edited anthologies in which many new writers got started, and a consistent source for stories about women (specifically, swordswomen and sorceresses).
* 1984 [[Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction Stories]] Jeffrey M. Elliot publishes, with [[Alyson Press]], the first explicitly gay-lesbian themed SF anthology, reprinting GL stories from previous publications.

* [[1985]] [[Margaret Atwood]] publishes [[The Handmaid's Tale]], later made into a film and an opera

* [[1986]] Sigourney Weaver kicks ass in [[Aliens]] (dir., [[James Cameron]])
* [[1986]] Joan Slonczewski publishes [[A Door Into Ocean]]
* [[1986]] [[Gaylaxian Science Fiction Society]] formed

* [[1987]] [[Toni Morrison]] publishes [[Beloved]]
* 1987 Pamela Sargent publishes The Shore of Women
* 1987 Gwyneth Jones publishes Divine Endurance
* Octavia Butler publishes Dawn, first book of the [[Xenogenesis]] trilogy
* [[James Tiptree, Jr.]] (Alice Sheldon) dies, 1915-1987

* 1988 Carol Emshwiller publishes Carmen Dog
* 1988 C.J. Cherryh publishes Cyteen
* 1988 Sheri Tepper publishes The Gate to Women's Country
* [[Gaylaxicon]], the first GLB SF convention
* [[Lambda Literary Awards]] inaugurated, with a joint category for "mystery/sf"; first award given to a mystery.

==The Gay Nineties: Queer Identity & Default Feminism (1991 onward)==

Explicitly feminist themes in SF continued to be explored in feministSF, but the true triumph of the [[Secret Feminist Cabal]] is the acceptance of the goals and analyses of feminism in much other literature. Strong women characters have become a norm for male and female writers alike. Kick-ass woman heroes made a major splash on TV and film.

In the post-[[Feminist Sex Wars]] years, lesbian, feminist, and woman-centered erotica boomed, spawning many anthologies on every conceivable subject. And feministSF moved online, in all its forms: [[fanfic]], geeky websites, mailing lists, and the like.

* 1989 [[Susanna Sturgis]] publishes [[Memories and Visions: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction]] anthology
* 1990 [[Susanna Sturgis]] publishes [[The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction, Vol.2]] anthology
* [[1991]] The creation of the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]] for SF or fantasy that explores and expands gender roles; [[Pat Murphy]] announced the creation at [[WisCon]].
* 1991 Lambda Literary Awards now split the lesbian mystery/sf category, and created a category for "Lesbian Science Fiction/Fantasy"; first Lambda for a lesbian fantasy/SF book, [[Jessica Amanda Salmonson]]'s anthology of glb supernatural fiction, [[What Did Miss Darrington See?]])

* 1991 Jewelle Gomez publishes The Gilda Stories; Marge Piercy publishes He, She and It; Rebecca Ore publishes The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid

* [[1992]] [[Angela Carter]] dies
* [[1992]] [[Nicola Griffith]] publishes [[Ammonite]]
* [[1992]] [[Sally Potter]] directs [[Orlando (film)|"Orlando"]]

* [[1993]] [[The X-Files]] reinvents the buddy film, debuting the skeptical scientific Scully playing straight man to Mulder's flirty believer; the two remain (mostly) platonic peers and equals for some half-dozen years into the series. The X-Files also accounts for a tremendous surge in FanFic which moved online in vast numbers.
* [[1993]] [[Pam Keesey]] publishes Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories, one of the first explicitly lesbian anthologies of fantasy/horror, tapping into the lesbian vampire zeitgeist (they're lesbian! they're vampires!)

* [[1994]] First website on feminist SF (ultimately becoming http://feministSF.org ).
* 1994 Nancy Kress publishes Beggars in Spain; Kathleen Ann Goonan publishes Queen City Jazz; Maureen McHugh publishes Half the Day Is Night

* [[1995]] "[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]" series premiere airs in the US (1995 Sept. 9; UK airdate, 1996 Sept. 8)
* 1995 Nancy Springer publishes Larque on the Wing

* [[1996]] (??) [[Circlet Press]] first publication of erotic, feminist SF, a chapbook called [[Telepaths Don't Need Safewords]]

* [[1997]] [[Judith Merril]] dies
* [[1997]] [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] series premiere in the US

* [[1998]] The [[Gaylactic Network]] establishes the [[Spectrum Awards]] "to honor works in science fiction, fantasy and horror which include positive explorations of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered characters, themes, or issues."
* [[1998]] - The [[Secret Feminist Cabal]] goes public by publishing the Tiptree Anthology, [[Flying Cups and Saucers]], illustrated by [[Freddie Baer]]
* [[1998]] [[Nalo Hopkinson]] publishes Brown Girl in the Ring

* [[1999]] [[FemSpec]] founded
* [[1999]] [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] dies
* [[1999]] [[Naomi Mitchison]] dies

* [[2000]] [[Broad Universe]] founded to promote women writers of SF/F/H
* [[2000]] [[Feminist Bookstore News]] shuts down after a 25-year run, during which it saw the peak and then eventual demise of many feminist presses and bookstores.

* [[2002]] [[Whileaway LiveJournal community]] began, 2002 June 26

* [[2003]] [[Monique Wittig]] died

* [[2006]] [[Octavia Butler]] died
* [[2006]] feministSF wiki began
* [[2006]] [[WisCon]] 30 year anniversary!

* [[2006]] "BoobGate": [[Harlan Ellison]] acts like a baby on stage, making a grab at [[Connie Willis]]' tit.

== Sources & External Links ==

* [[User:Lquilter|Laura Quilter]], 2001-2006, A Brief History of Feminist SF/F and Women in SF/F, available at http://feministsf.org/community/history.html

[[category:Calendar]]
[[category:FeministSF History]]

Feminist SF timeline

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A Brief History of Feminist SF and Women in SF

{{spoiler}}

==BF (Before <I>Frankenstein</I>)==

SF per se did not exist, but many of the stories that were told, and eventually published, relied on fantastical premises of one sort or another, often including magical, religious, and mythical imagery, beings or events. The imagined civilization, whether it be utopian, the Kingdom of Heaven, or otherwise, cropped up here and there.

* [[1405]] [[Christine de Pizan]], [[The Book of the City of Ladies]]
* [[1666]] [[Margaret Cavendish]], [[The Blazing World]]
* [[1762]] [[Sarah Scott]], [[A Description of Millennium Hall]]
* [[1794]] [[Ann Radcliffe]], [[The Mysteries of Udolpho]] (quintessential gothic novel; supernatural events ultimately shown to be non-supernatural)
* [[1798]]; rev. [[1803]] [[Jane Austen]], [[Northanger Abbey]] (a satirical gothic novel)

==Nineteenth Century CE: After <I>Frankenstein</I> (1818-1919)==

The early 19th century formats were still shaping and being developed. [[Gothic]] novels remained popular, with supernatural or possibly supernatural elements. Mary Shelley's [[Frankenstein]] emerged in part from this tradition.

In the mid-later part of the 19th century, a wide variety of [[utopian]] stories emerged from social and utopian movements. A conscious feminism picked up on many of the themes of the suffragettes, and produced specifically gender-based attacks on the patriarchy, positing that a female society might be wiser, more peaceful, more humane.

The late-19th century fascination with the supernatural led to many supernatural and [[ghost stories]]; relatedly, the themes in [[gothic]] novels continued to often include supernatural aspects.

The late 19th and early 20th century saw a suffragette [[backlash]] in literature: novels in which [[humorless]] women take over the world, for good or for ill; valiant men with a sense of humor often took it right back to the satisfaction of both sexes.

* [[1818]] [[Mary Shelley]], [[Frankenstein]]
* [[1827]] [[Jane Webb Loudon]], [[The Mummy!: A Tale of the Twentieth Century]]

* [[1872]] [[J. Sheridan Le Fanu]], [["Carmilla"]] (an early, possibly the first, lesbian vampire story published)
* [[1880-81]] [[Mary E. Bradley]] publishes [[Mizora: A Prophecy]]
* [[1892]] [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]] publishes "[[The Yellow Wallpaper]]" turning the ghost story on its head in an early feminist critique of what [[Betty Friedan]] later named "the feminine mystique".

* [[1915]] [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]] publishes [[Herland]]
* [[1918]] [[Frances Stevens]] publishes [[Citadel of Fear]]
* [[1918]] [[Gertrude Franklin Atherton]] publishes [[The White Morning]]

==The 20th Century: After the Great War (1920-1945)==
The pulp era began, and brought with it women writers, often writing [[pseudonymously]] or under [[gender-ambiguous names]], such as [[C.L. Moore]].

Strong socialist and fascist currents in reaction to economic crises in Europe and North America generated a number of radical critiques of fascism and totalitarianism, including several important works from female writers.

* [[1926]] [[Thea von Harbou]] publishes [[Metropolis]]
* [[1926]] [[Sylvia Townsend Warner]] publishes [[Lolly Willowes]]
* [[1928]] [[Virginia Woolf]] publishes [[Orlando]]
* [[1935]] [[Katharine Burdekin]] publishes [[The End of This Day's Business]]
* [[1940]] [[Karin Boye]] publishes [[Kallocain]]
* [[1941]] First appearance of [[Wonder Woman]], one of the first female [[superheroes]]

==The 20th Century: After WW2 (1945-1967)==
SF popularity continues to grow, and male and female writers enter the field in increasing numbers. Women still frequently write with pseudonyms or gender-ambiguous names, or pseudonymously with male writers using a male pseudonym.

In US SF, anxieties over nuclear war, Communism, and the changing roles of women during and after WW2 sometimes played out in gender-related SF. A number of "[[war of the sexes]]" stories appeared, often depicting the society run by women as a hive-like metaphor for socialism. As in the suffragette backlash, the societies run by women were authoritarian, humorless, dull, and lacked creative fire and ingenuity, and they were often static or even dying societies.

Prominent new writers in the '40s include [[Judith Merril]], [[Leigh Brackett]] and [[Miriam Allen deFord]].

* 1948 [[Judith Merril]] publishes [["That Only a Mother"]]
* 1948 [[Shirley Jackson]] publishes [["The Lottery"]]
* 1948 [[Lisa Ben]] publishes [["New Year's Day"]], the first modern "gay identity" SF story
* 1948 [[Wilmar Shiras]] publishes [["In Hiding"]], which was later developed into a novel, ''[[Children of the Atom]]'' (1953)

Prominent new women writers in the '50s include [[Katharine MacLean]], [[Margaret St. Clair]], [[Zenna Henderson]], and [[Andre Norton]].

* 1950 [[Judith Merril]] publishes ''[[Shadow on the Hearth]]''
* 1952 [[Zenna Henderson]] begins publishing [[The People]] series
* 1953 [[Judith Merril]] published [[Daughters of Earth]]
* 1954 "[[Femizine]]" An "all female" SF fan zine created in England, later revealed to be a hoax.

Prominent new women writers in the '60s are almost too many to name here but a selection include: [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]], [[Rosel George Brown]], [[Sonya Dorman]], [[Carol Emshwiller]], [[Sylvia Louise Engdahl]], [[Phyllis Gotlieb]], [[Madeleine L'Engle]], [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], [[Anne McCaffrey]], [[Naomi Mitchison]], [[Joanna Russ]], [[James Tiptree, Jr.]], [[Kate Wilhelm]], and many others. Plus, [[Samuel R. Delany]].

* [[1960]] [[Theodore Sturgeon]] publishes ''[[Venus Plus X]]''
* [[1961]] [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] publishes ''[[The Door Through Space]]''
* [[1962]] [[Naomi Mitchison]] publishes ''[[Memoirs of a Spacewoman]]''
* [[1962]] [[Madeleine L'Engle]] publishes ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]''
* [[1962]] [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] publishes ''[[Planet Savers]]'', first novel in the [[Darkover]] series
* [[1966]] [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] publishes her first two novels, ''[[Rocannon's World]]'' and ''[[Planet of Exile]]''
* [[1966]] [[Rosel George Brown]] publishes ''[[Sibyl Sue Blue]]''
* [[1967]] [[Pamela Zoline]]'s publishes her story [["The Heat Death of the Universe"]] in Michael Moorcock's ''New Worlds''
* [[1967]] [[Anna Kavan]] publishes ''[[Ice]]''
* [[1967]] Harlan Ellison's publishes ''[[Dangerous Visions]]'', a ground-breaking anthology including work by Delany, Emshwiller, and Sturgeon

==The Golden Age of Feminist SF (1968-1979) ==

[[Lesbian separatism]] and [[Gay Liberation]] made strong impacts on feminist SF, and the developing world of [[fanfic]]. Many more women entered the field. A feminist backlash became prominent, focusing less on hive-like socialist societies and more on lesbianism and male fears of sexual redundancy.

* [[1968]] [[Joanna Russ]] publishes [[Picnic on Paradise]]
* [[1968]] [[Uhura|Lt. Uhura]] and Captain Kirk debut the first interracial kiss on American TV in "Plato's Stepchildren", "[[Star Trek]]" Season 3
* [[1968]] [[Samuel R. Delany]] publishes [[Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand]], a major novel with a gay protagonist
* [[1968]] [[Anne McCaffrey]] becomes the first woman to win a [[Hugo Award]] for fiction, for the novella "[[Weyr Search]]", which was later incorporated into the novel ''[[Dragonflight]]''
* [[1969]] [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] publishes [[The Left Hand of Darkness]]
* [[1971]] [[Monique Wittig]] publishes [[Les Guérillères]]
* [[1971]] [[Dorothy Bryant]] publishes [[The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You]], which stylistically echoes late 19th century threads of metaphoric fiction and paves the way for [[New Age fiction]]
* [[1972]] [[Joanna Russ]] publishes "[[When It Changed]]"
* [[1973] [[James Tiptree, Jr.]] publishes "[[The Girl Who Was Plugged In]]"
* [[1974]] [[Suzy McKee Charnas]] publishes [[Walk to the End of the World]], first in the [[Holdfast Series]]
* [[1974]] [[Pamela Sargent]] publishes [[Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Stories by Women about Women]], the first anthology dedicated to women in SF
* [[1974]] [[Diane Marchant]] publishes the first known Star Trek slash, "A Fragment Out of Time," an oblique Kirk/Spock story
* [[1975]] [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] publishes [[The Heritage of Hastur]]
* [[1975]] [[Tanith Lee]] publishes [[The Birthgrave]]
* [[1975]] [[Naomi Mitchison]] publishes [[Solution Three]]
* [[1975]] [[Joanna Russ]] publishes [[The Female Man]]
* [[1975]] The "[[Women in Science Fiction Symposium|Women in Science Fiction]]" symposium, edited by [[Jeffrey D. Smith]], is published in [[Khatru]] 3&4
* [[1975]] Robert Silverberg describes [[James Tiptree, Jr.]]'s writing as "ineluctibly masculine" in the introduction to [[Warm Worlds and Otherwise]], apparently attempting to dispel rumors that Tiptree is female
* [[1976]] [[Susan Wood]] sets up a feminist panel at [[MidAmericon]], apparently the first panel on "women and science fiction", which leads ultimately to the founding of [[A Women's Apa]].
* [[1976]] [[Samuel R. Delany]] publishes [[Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia]]
* [[1976]] [[Marge Piercy]] publishes [[Woman on the Edge of Time]]
* [[1976]] [[Carol Seajay]] begins [[Feminist Bookstore News]], a selection tool geared toward women's bookstores; an SF column begins -- ? when. [[Susanna Sturgis]] is the long-time SF columnist.
* [[1977]] The first [[WisCon]] is held in Madison, Wisconsin.
* [[1977]] an all-women's issue of <I>[[Analog]]</I> published
* [[1978]] A "room of our own" opened at Westercon in Vancouver by [[Susan Wood]], as a women's space
* [[1978]] E.M. Broner publishes [[A Weave of Women]]
* [[1978]] Vonda McIntyre publishes [[Dreamsnake]]
* [[1979]] The gay/lesbian (eventually glbt) bookstore "[[A Different Light]]" opens, naming itself after [[Elizabeth A. Lynn]]'s novel of the same name.
* [[1979]] Octavia Butler publishes [[Kindred]]
* [[1979]] Sally Miller Gearheart publishes [[The Wanderground]]
* [[1979]] [[Ridley Scott]]'s [[Alien]] features [[Ellen Ripley]], the first significant female action hero in a major American film series

==The Eighties: Cyberpunk & "Post-Feminism" (1980-1990)==

<I>"I'll be a post-feminist in the post-patriarchy."</I>

The [[feminist sex wars]] reach their peak in the 80s, not coincidentally at the same time that [[women's erotica]] is enjoying a boom. SF in general shows a much greater level of sexual explicitness, and [[fanfic]] gets naughty and needs a spanking.

[[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]'s [[The Mists of Avalon]] kicks off a new thread of novels portraying [[women's spirituality]] and goddess-based religions, ultimately feeding into the New Age fiction trend. [[The Mists of Avalon]] also initiated a popular trend of reenvisioning histories, myths, and iconic stories from feminist or subaltern perspectives.

Numerous women's presses and bookstores are founded in the 1970s with the collective energy of the feminist movement and lesbian separatists; lesbian & gay-themed lines, presses, and bookstores followed shortly thereafter.

The English-speaking world discovers magical realism, and numerous important new works are published or translated into English.

The bisexual, goth, androgynous, vampire thing picks up steam in the 80s.

* [[1980]] Octavia Butler publishes Wild Seed
* [[1980]] Elizabeth Lynn publishes Northern Girl
* 1980 Kate Wilhelm publishes Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

* 1981 Julian May publishes The Many Colored Lands (first in Pleiocene Cycle)
* 1981 New Victoria publishes WomanSpace: Future and Fantasy, Stories and Art by Women
* 1981 Elisabeth Vonarburg publishes La Silence de la Cite; translated into English in 1988 as The Silent City

* 1982 Tanith Lee publishes The Silver Metal Lover
* 1982 Smith College hosted a 3-week symposium on feminist speculative fiction

* [[1983]] [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] publishes [[The Mists of Avalon]]
* Mary Gentle publishes Witchbreed
* [[1983]] [[Joanna Russ]] publishes [[How to Supress Women's Writing]]

* [[1984]] Suzette Haden Elgin publishes [[Native Tongue]]
* [[1984]] Marion Zimmer Bradley publishes [[Sword and Sorceress]], the first in a series of Bradley-edited anthologies in which many new writers got started, and a consistent source for stories about women (specifically, swordswomen and sorceresses).
* 1984 [[Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction Stories]] Jeffrey M. Elliot publishes, with [[Alyson Press]], the first explicitly gay-lesbian themed SF anthology, reprinting GL stories from previous publications.

* [[1985]] [[Margaret Atwood]] publishes [[The Handmaid's Tale]], later made into a film and an opera

* [[1986]] Sigourney Weaver kicks ass in [[Aliens]] (dir., [[James Cameron]])
* [[1986]] Joan Slonczewski publishes [[A Door Into Ocean]]
* [[1986]] [[Gaylaxian Science Fiction Society]] formed

* [[1987]] [[Toni Morrison]] publishes [[Beloved]]
* 1987 Pamela Sargent publishes The Shore of Women
* 1987 Gwyneth Jones publishes Divine Endurance
* Octavia Butler publishes Dawn, first book of the [[Xenogenesis]] trilogy
* [[James Tiptree, Jr.]] (Alice Sheldon) dies, 1915-1987

* 1988 Carol Emshwiller publishes Carmen Dog
* 1988 C.J. Cherryh publishes Cyteen
* 1988 Sheri Tepper publishes The Gate to Women's Country
* [[Gaylaxicon]], the first GLB SF convention
* [[Lambda Literary Awards]] inaugurated, with a joint category for "mystery/sf"; award given to mystery novels.

==The Gay Nineties: Queer Identity & Default Feminism (1991 onward)==

Explicitly feminist themes in SF continued to be explored in feministSF, but the true triumph of the [[Secret Feminist Cabal]] is the acceptance of the goals and analyses of feminism in much other literature. Strong women characters have become a norm for male and female writers alike. Kick-ass woman heroes made a major splash on TV and film.

In the post-[[Feminist Sex Wars]] years, lesbian, feminist, and woman-centered erotica boomed, spawning many anthologies on every conceivable subject. And feministSF moved online, in all its forms: [[fanfic]], geeky websites, mailing lists, and the like.

* 1989 [[Susanna Sturgis]] publishes [[Memories and Visions: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction]] anthology
* 1990 [[Susanna Sturgis]] publishes [[The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction, Vol.2]] anthology
* [[1991]] The creation of the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]] for SF or fantasy that explores and expands gender roles; [[Pat Murphy]] announced the creation at [[WisCon]].
* 1991 Lambda Literary Awards now split the lesbian mystery/sf category, and created a category for "Lesbian Science Fiction/Fantasy"; first Lambda for a lesbian fantasy/SF book, [[Jessica Amanda Salmonson]]'s anthology of glb supernatural fiction, [[What Did Miss Darrington See?]])

* 1991 Jewelle Gomez publishes The Gilda Stories; Marge Piercy publishes He, She and It; Rebecca Ore publishes The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid

* [[1992]] [[Angela Carter]] dies
* [[1992]] [[Nicola Griffith]] publishes [[Ammonite]]
* [[1992]] [[Sally Potter]] directs [[Orlando (film)|"Orlando"]]

* [[1993]] [[The X-Files]] reinvents the buddy film, debuting the skeptical scientific Scully playing straight man to Mulder's flirty believer; the two remain (mostly) platonic peers and equals for some half-dozen years into the series. The X-Files also accounts for a tremendous surge in FanFic which moved online in vast numbers.
* [[1993]] [[Pam Keesey]] publishes Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories, one of the first explicitly lesbian anthologies of fantasy/horror, tapping into the lesbian vampire zeitgeist (they're lesbian! they're vampires!)

* [[1994]] First website on feminist SF (ultimately becoming http://feministSF.org ).
* 1994 Nancy Kress publishes Beggars in Spain; Kathleen Ann Goonan publishes Queen City Jazz; Maureen McHugh publishes Half the Day Is Night

* [[1995]] "[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]" series premiere airs in the US (1995 Sept. 9; UK airdate, 1996 Sept. 8)
* 1995 Nancy Springer publishes Larque on the Wing

* [[1996]] (??) [[Circlet Press]] first publication of erotic, feminist SF, a chapbook called [[Telepaths Don't Need Safewords]]

* [[1997]] [[Judith Merril]] dies
* [[1997]] [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] series premiere in the US

* [[1998]] The [[Gaylactic Network]] establishes the [[Spectrum Awards]] "to honor works in science fiction, fantasy and horror which include positive explorations of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered characters, themes, or issues."
* [[1998]] - The [[Secret Feminist Cabal]] goes public by publishing the Tiptree Anthology, [[Flying Cups and Saucers]], illustrated by [[Freddie Baer]]
* [[1998]] [[Nalo Hopkinson]] publishes Brown Girl in the Ring

* [[1999]] [[FemSpec]] founded
* [[1999]] [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] dies
* [[1999]] [[Naomi Mitchison]] dies

* [[2000]] [[Broad Universe]] founded to promote women writers of SF/F/H
* [[2000]] [[Feminist Bookstore News]] shuts down after a 25-year run, during which it saw the peak and then eventual demise of many feminist presses and bookstores.

* [[2002]] [[Whileaway LiveJournal community]] began, 2002 June 26

* [[2003]] [[Monique Wittig]] died

* [[2006]] [[Octavia Butler]] died
* [[2006]] feministSF wiki began
* [[2006]] [[WisCon]] 30 year anniversary!

* [[2006]] "BoobGate": [[Harlan Ellison]] acts like a baby on stage, making a grab at [[Connie Willis]]' tit.

== Sources & External Links ==

* [[User:Lquilter|Laura Quilter]], 2001-2006, A Brief History of Feminist SF/F and Women in SF/F, available at http://feministsf.org/community/history.html

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* [[Female Scientists (characters)]] - works with female scientists
* [[Communication Guidelines]] - Drafting feminist guidelines for communicating, including how to argue effectively, how to be aware of dynamics & meta-issues in conversations, how to keep conversations effective or to kill them if not
* [[Annoying Plot Conventions, Devices, Contrivances]] about gender or things that happen to female characters that make you roll your eyes
* [[Get Her In Print]] - women's works that have fallen out of print or caught in a publishing problem
* add your [[suggestions]] and ideas!
* look at the [[Special:Recentchanges|Recent changes]] page (also linked on the left) to see what other people are working on, and join in

== The Heart of Feminist SF : the community ==

'''[[:category:Events|Events]]'''
* [[WisCon]] -- please [[WisCon 30|add your transcripts, bibliographies, comments & reports]]
* [[Women's Wiki Camp]] (to be renamed later)

'''[[:category:Organizations & Communities|Feminist SF & Related Organizations & Communities]]'''
* [[Secret Feminist Cabal]] & other [[feminist conspiracies]]
* [[feministSF.org]], the host of this wiki, listserves, and various websites over the years ... see http://feministsf.org/
* [[:category:FSFNet Working Groups|FSF.Net Working Groups]] - working groups on various FSF projects
** Think Tankery Working Group, coming soon
** [[Láadan Working Group]]: notes for moving forward

'''[[:category:People|Feminist SF fans, editors, writers, scholars & other people]]'''
* [[Memorials & Remembrances]]
**[[Lisa Barnett]], ([[1958]]-[[2006]])
**[[Octavia Butler]], ([[1947]]-[[2006]])

'''Business of feminist SF'''
* [[Publishers and Presses]]
* [[:category:Writers' Resources|Writers' Resources]] including foundations, grants, writing groups, workshops, etc.
* Women SF Writers' Groups: [[Broad Universe]] and [[SFFFW]]
* [[:category:Awards|Awards]]: [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]] -- The 2005 award was just given to [[Geoff Ryman]]'s [[Air]] at [[WisCon 30]] ... see http://tiptree.org/ for more info. Other awards: Carl Brandon Society [[Carl Brandon Parallax Award|Parallax Award]] and [[Carl Brandon Kindred Award|Kindred Award]] ... Gaylactic [[Spectrum Awards]] ... SFFFW [[Roots in Writing Award]] ... [[Sense of Gender Award]]
* [[:category:Editors|Editors]]
* [[:category:Agents|Agents]]

'''Fandom'''
* [[:category:SF Conventions|SF Conventions]]
* [[Women in Fandom]]

== FSF Books, Authors, Etc. ==

'''Writers & Other Creators'''
* [[Author List]] and
* [[Artists|Artists, Musicians, Etc.]]

'''Books & Bibliographies'''
* [[Influential Feminist FSF Books]]
* [[Canons]]
* [[Reading Paths]]
* [[:category:Reading & Media Lists|Reading & Media Lists]]
** [[Feminist Comic Books for Kids]]
* [[:category:Films|Films]]

'''Themes & Characterizations'''
* [[List of Themes|Literary Devices, Tropes, Themes, Plot Points]] common to Feminist SF
** [[Myths]] of particular interest to FSF
* [[Women in SF]]
** [[Clichés, Archetypes, Stereotypes of Female Characters in SF|Cliché]] female characterizations (needs filler)
*** the [[Black Warrior Woman]]
** [[Women in SF Art]]
** [[:category:Notable Female Characters|Notable Female Characters]]
** [[:category:Mythological Female Characters|Mythological Female Characters]]

'''Scholarship'''
* [[Courses]] and [[Syllabi]]
* [[FeministSF Critical Theory]]
* [[:category:Scholars|Scholars]]

* [[Timeline]] of Women in SF & Feminist SF
* [[Related]] related information on "SF" or "feminism" etc.
* [[Quotes]]

== What is this? ==

* what's the [[mission|feministSF wiki]]?
** what's the FSFwiki [[mission]]?
** what's the [[FSFwiki process]] for negotiating disputes & the like?
** why aren't you just putting this stuff on [[wikipedia]]?
** "can I do it?" yes. Anybody can edit text -- go ahead, try it! Click "edit" at the top of the page ... (Except for this first page ... You have to log in & create a userID to edit the first page, a protection added because of linkspam.) See the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] or the [[QuickCheatSheet|Quick Cheat Sheet]]
*** want to do more?: If you want to be a super-editor and help do initial technical configurations of the wiki, write [[User:Lquilter|Laura Quilter]] or lquilter at lquilter.net with "fsfwiki" in the subject line.
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*** how can I help? contribute to our [[To Do List]]
*** [[Wiki Office Hours]] - Scheduled time when someone will be on the wiki, hoping for collaboration and chat in realtime

* what's [[feminist SF]]?
* what's [[feminism]]?
** what are some [[:category:Feminist Issues|feminist issues]] and [[:category:Feminist Processes|feminist processes]]?
* what's [[SF]]?

* what's a wiki? how do I edit it?
** [[QuickCheatSheet|Quick Cheat Sheet]]

* [[Funding|How is this funded? Can I donate?]]

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* [[Annoying Plot Conventions, Devices, Contrivances]] about gender or things that happen to female characters that make you roll your eyes
* [[Get Her In Print]] - women's works that have fallen out of print or caught in a publishing problem
* add your [[suggestions]] and ideas!
* look at the [[Special:Recentchanges|Recent changes]] page (also linked on the left) to see what other people are working on, and join in

== The Heart of Feminist SF : the community ==

'''[[:category:Events|Events]]'''
* [[WisCon]] -- please [[WisCon 30|add your transcripts, bibliographies, comments & reports]]
* [[Women's Wiki Camp]] (to be renamed later)

'''[[:category:Organizations & Communities|Feminist SF & Related Organizations & Communities]]'''
* [[Secret Feminist Cabal]] & other [[feminist conspiracies]]
* [[feministSF.org]], the host of this wiki, listserves, and various websites over the years ... see http://feministsf.org/
* [[:category:FSFNet Working Groups|FSF.Net Working Groups]] - working groups on various FSF projects
** Think Tankery Working Group, coming soon
** [[Láadan Working Group]]: notes for moving forward

'''[[:category:People|Feminist SF fans, editors, writers, scholars & other people]]'''
* [[Memorials & Remembrances]]
**[[Lisa Barnett]], ([[1958]]-[[2006]])
**[[Octavia Butler]], ([[1947]]-[[2006]])

'''Business of feminist SF'''
* [[Publishers and Presses]]
* [[:category:Writers' Resources|Writers' Resources]] including foundations, grants, writing groups, workshops, etc.
* Women SF Writers' Groups: [[Broad Universe]] and [[SFFFW]]
* [[:category:Awards|Awards]]: [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]] -- The 2005 award was just given to [[Geoff Ryman]]'s [[Air]] at [[WisCon 30]] ... see http://tiptree.org/ for more info. Other awards: Carl Brandon Society [[Carl Brandon Parallax Award|Parallax Award]] and [[Carl Brandon Kindred Award|Kindred Award]] ... Gaylactic [[Spectrum Awards]] ... SFFFW [[Roots in Writing Award]] ... [[Sense of Gender Award]]
* [[:category:Editors|Editors]]
* [[:category:Agents|Agents]]

'''Fandom'''
* [[:category:SF Conventions|SF Conventions]]
* [[Women in Fandom]]

== FSF Books, Authors, Etc. ==

'''Writers & Other Creators'''
* [[Author List]] and
* [[Artists|Artists, Musicians, Etc.]]

'''Books & Bibliographies'''
* [[Influential Feminist FSF Books]]
* [[Canons]]
* [[Reading Paths]]
* [[:category:Reading & Media Lists|Reading & Media Lists]]
** [[Feminist Comic Books for Kids]]
* [[:category:Films|Films]]

'''Themes & Characterizations'''
* [[List of Themes|Literary Devices, Tropes, Themes, Plot Points]] common to Feminist SF
** [[Myths]] of particular interest to FSF
* [[Women in SF]]
** [[Clichés, Archetypes, Stereotypes of Female Characters in SF|Cliché]] female characterizations (needs filler)
*** the [[Black Warrior Woman]]
** [[Women in SF Art]]
** [[:category:Notable Female Characters|Notable Female Characters]]
** [[:category:Mythological Female Characters|Mythological Female Characters]]

'''Scholarship'''
* [[Courses]] and [[Syllabi]]
* [[FeministSF Critical Theory]]
* [[:category:Scholars|Scholars]]

* [[Timeline]] of Women in SF & Feminist SF
* [[Related]] related information on "SF" or "feminism" etc.
* [[Quotes]]

== What is this? ==

* what's the [[mission|feministSF wiki]]?
** what's the FSFwiki [[mission]]?
** what's the [[FSFwiki process]] for negotiating disputes & the like?
** why aren't you just putting this stuff on [[wikipedia]]?
** "can I do it?" yes. Anybody can edit text -- go ahead, try it! Click "edit" at the top of the page ... (Except for this first page ... You have to log in & create a userID to edit the first page, a protection added because of linkspam.) See the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] or the [[QuickCheatSheet|Quick Cheat Sheet]]
*** want to do more?: If you want to be a super-editor and help do initial technical configurations of the wiki, write [[User:Lquilter|Laura Quilter]] or lquilter at lquilter.net with "fsfwiki" in the subject line.
*** how do I make [[suggestions]]? (add them to the [[suggestions]] page)
*** how can I help? contribute to our [[To Do List]]
*** [[Wiki Office Hours]] - Scheduled time when someone will be on the wiki, hoping for collaboration and chat in realtime

* what's [[feminist SF]]?
* what's [[feminism]]?
** what are some [[:category:Feminist Issues|feminist issues]] and [[:category:Feminist Processes|feminist processes]]?
* what's [[SF]]?

* what's a wiki? how do I edit it?
** [[QuickCheatSheet|Quick Cheat Sheet]]

* [[Funding|How is this funded? Can I donate?]]

... more [[:category:About|About]]

== Navigation ==

* [[Special:Allpages|A-Z Index of All Pages]]

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ALERT: Ignore the annoying error message you get after saving an edit.
The edits are posting, despite the error message. If you discover that
an edit did NOT post, then please contact me at lquilter a t feministsf.org.
Otherwise, post away. We're working on it.

Current highlighted projects:

* [[Female Scientists (characters)]] - works with female scientists
* [[Communication Guidelines]] - Drafting feminist guidelines for communicating, including how to argue effectively, how to be aware of dynamics & meta-issues in conversations, how to keep conversations effective or to kill them if not
* [[Annoying Plot Conventions, Devices, Contrivances]] about gender or things that happen to female characters that make you roll your eyes
* [[Get Her In Print]] - women's works that have fallen out of print or caught in a publishing problem
* add your [[suggestions]] and ideas!
* look at the [[Special:Recentchanges|Recent changes]] page (also linked on the left) to see what other people are working on, and join in

== The Heart of Feminist SF : the community ==

'''[[:category:Events|Events]]'''
* [[WisCon]] -- please [[WisCon 30|add your transcripts, bibliographies, comments & reports]]
* [[Women's Wiki Camp]] (to be renamed later)

'''[[:category:Organizations & Communities|Feminist SF & Related Organizations & Communities]]'''
* [[Secret Feminist Cabal]] & other [[feminist conspiracies]]
* [[feministSF.org]], the host of this wiki, listserves, and various websites over the years ... see http://feministsf.org/
* [[:category:FSFNet Working Groups|FSF.Net Working Groups]] - working groups on various FSF projects
** Think Tankery Working Group, coming soon
** [[Láadan Working Group]]: notes for moving forward

'''[[:category:People|Feminist SF fans, editors, writers, scholars & other people]]'''
* [[Memorials & Remembrances]]
**[[Lisa Barnett]], ([[1958]]-[[2006]])
**[[Octavia Butler]], ([[1947]]-[[2006]])

'''Business of feminist SF'''
* [[Publishers and Presses]]
* [[:category:Writers' Resources|Writers' Resources]] including foundations, grants, writing groups, workshops, etc.
* Women SF Writers' Groups: [[Broad Universe]] and [[SFFFW]]
* [[:category:Awards|Awards]]: [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]] -- The 2005 award was just given to [[Geoff Ryman]]'s [[Air]] at [[WisCon 30]] ... see http://tiptree.org/ for more info. Other awards: Carl Brandon Society [[Carl Brandon Parallax Award|Parallax Award]] and [[Carl Brandon Kindred Award|Kindred Award]] ... Gaylactic [[Spectrum Awards]] ... SFFFW [[Roots in Writing Award]] ... [[Sense of Gender Award]]
* [[:category:Editors|Editors]]
* [[:category:Agents|Agents]]

'''Fandom'''
* [[:category:SF Conventions|SF Conventions]]
* [[Women in Fandom]]

== FSF Books, Authors, Etc. ==

'''Writers & Other Creators'''
* [[Author List]] and
* [[Artists|Artists, Musicians, Etc.]]

'''Books & Bibliographies'''
* [[Influential Feminist FSF Books]]
* [[Canons]]
* [[Reading Paths]]
* [[:category:Reading & Media Lists|Reading & Media Lists]]
** [[Feminist Comic Books for Kids]]
* [[:category:Films|Films]]

'''Themes & Characterizations'''
* [[List of Themes|Literary Devices, Tropes, Themes, Plot Points]] common to Feminist SF
** [[Myths]] of particular interest to FSF
* [[Women in SF]]
** [[Clichés, Archetypes, Stereotypes of Female Characters in SF|Cliché]] female characterizations (needs filler)
*** the [[Black Warrior Woman]]
** [[Women in SF Art]]
** [[:category:Notable Female Characters|Notable Female Characters]]
** [[:category:Mythological Female Characters|Mythological Female Characters]]

'''Scholarship'''
* [[Courses]] and [[Syllabi]]
* [[FeministSF Critical Theory]]
* [[:category:Scholars|Scholars]]

* [[Timeline]] of Women in SF & Feminist SF
* [[Related]] related information on "SF" or "feminism" etc.
* [[Quotes]]

== What is this? ==

* what's the [[mission|feministSF wiki]]?
** what's the FSFwiki [[mission]]?
** what's the [[FSFwiki process]] for negotiating disputes & the like?
** why aren't you just putting this stuff on [[wikipedia]]?
** "can I do it?" yes. Anybody can edit text -- go ahead, try it! Click "edit" at the top of the page ... (Except for this first page ... You have to log in & create a userID to edit the first page, a protection added because of linkspam.) See the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] or the [[QuickCheatSheet|Quick Cheat Sheet]]
*** want to do more?: If you want to be a super-editor and help do initial technical configurations of the wiki, write [[User:Lquilter|Laura Quilter]] or lquilter at lquilter.net with "fsfwiki" in the subject line.
*** how do I make [[suggestions]]? (add them to the [[suggestions]] page)
*** how can I help? contribute to our [[To Do List]]
*** [[Wiki Office Hours]] - Scheduled time when someone will be on the wiki, hoping for collaboration and chat in realtime

* what's [[feminist SF]]?
* what's [[feminism]]?
** what are some [[:category:Feminist Issues|feminist issues]] and [[:category:Feminist Processes|feminist processes]]?
* what's [[SF]]?

* what's a wiki? how do I edit it?
** [[QuickCheatSheet|Quick Cheat Sheet]]

* [[Funding|How is this funded? Can I donate?]]

... more [[:category:About|About]]

== Navigation ==

* [[Special:Allpages|A-Z Index of All Pages]]

FSFblog communication guidelines

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This is a working document. It is intended to hone and revise feminist guidelines for effective discussion, debate, and argument.

==Goals==

# Provisionally, these guidelines should enable and facilitate communication, by providing standards relating to listening, respectfully hearing substantive points, and responding respectfully to substantive arguments. Basically, how to engage in conversation usefully.

# However, they also should deal with how to simultaneously engage in meta-analysis of the flow of discussion, so that you can see when inappropriate and nonproductive communication techniques are coming in -- including sexist or racist or elitist language or stances. Basically, how to see when a conversation is being derailed.

# Finally, the guidelines should include information about when and how to redirect a conversation to keep it flowing; or to cut it off. This should include information about when it is appropriate to bring up meta-analysis of the conversation -- not responding to a point, but pointing out some characteristic about how another person is arguing. Also, if not appropriate to engage in meta-analysis, how to direct back to appropriate channels. When is it better to do it "offline" in a private setting, and when is it better to engage a behavior publicly. Basically, how to heal or kill conversations.

''Other Thoughts'': How to protect yourself; how to protect others; how to teach someone else; how to recognize a teaching moment; how to not feel responsible for representing 100% of the time; how to engage in group conversation dynamics; etc.

===Prospective Uses===

* At the least, a guide for discussion on the feministsf.net forums -- blog, forums, wiki, and so on.
* Should be useful as rules for all discussion participants and moderators

==Status==

* Right now this is both redundant and inconsistent! But it needs to be rewritten because some people don't know how to argue.

== Caveat ==

Politeness and good communication and civility and respectfulness all depend on political circumstances. The goal of feminism is not politeness, good communication, civility, or respectfulness, but women's liberation from political, social and economic oppression.

Because the ''[[incumbent]]s'' dictate the nature of civility, there is no such thing as a polite revolution.

This Wiki cannot function as a feminist tool if it is divorced from its cause and wedded to abstacted views of interpersonal relations. Therefore, the guidelines below must '''always''' be considered in a political context.

==Sources==

* The WisCon moderators' rules might be of use.
* Something to be gleaned from [http://roar-of-comics.blogspot.com/2006/06/flame-on.html this analysis] of weird & inappropriate communications on the part of commenter?
* http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2005/12/02/how-not-to-be-insane-when-accused-of-racism/
* http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/607897.html
* http://grannyvibe.blogspot.com/2006/07/defensiveness.html Granny Gets a Vibrator: "Defensiveness" (2006 July 30)
* http://community.livejournal.com/feminist/1362470.html 12 Helpful Suggestions for Men Regarding Conduct in Feminist Spaces

==Draft==

'''Communications 101: How to Argue Effectively & Respectfully''' (title)

Communication styles, like everything else, is a feminist issue. Moreover, having clear, respectful communications makes discussions effective & useful for readers and participants alike. So, here are a few tips & no-nos: (preamble)

Guidelines - need to be organized, clarified, rationalized as a system.

* Respond to the substance of the argument, not the speaker's identity and not the speaker's style.

* But if the speaker's identity or style are relevant to a meta-discussion then say so.

* Be aware when you are leaving the original topic and moving into meta-discussion / processing / pissing wars. Sometimes this is good: Seeing sexism or racism in a discussion and addressing it right then, head-on. But sometimes it's bad: Getting into pointless back-and-forth pissing wars about increasingly irrelevant minutiae, misunderstandings, what was said, etc.

* If you see yourself going meta, you should understand why you want to, very clearly. And before posting you should make a conscious decision that it is appropriate; it will further the discussion; it is in keeping with feminist principles of full & effective communications for all.

* Repeat: Self-awareness. Not knee-jerk responses. Anger is good, healthy, strong. Pissiness is annoying. If you have a righteous anger over a wrong that is being committed, express it! Voice your anger. Use strong language if you like or it's appropriate.

* Respect other people. Saying that a statement, an argument, or a worldview is fucked-up or sexist or racist is different from saying that someone is fucked-up or sexist or racist. Attempting to classify someone else is disrespectful to them.

* If someone is being disrespectful then don't tolerate it.

* Engaging in a pissing match with someone who is being disrespectful is not interesting to the rest of the world. Helping them figure out what they're doing wrong is useful. Pointing out to the forum moderators that they are inappropriate is useful.

* Don't engage in pissing wars.

** If your only response is basically "You're a --" or "No I'm not!" then you're not adding anything of substance to the discussion. Are you characterizing / defending / explaining your own statements, or are you talking about the subject of discussion and adding to it?

** If you feel the need to characterize / defend / explain your own statements, then you better understand why they were mischaracterized / attacked / misunderstood. That means understanding how you miscommunicated to begin with.

** If your response is directed to one person only then it's probably not interesting to everyone else even if you want them to hear it. Think about why you want to respond publicly to the comment. Is it because you feel insulted or aggrieved?

** Consider whether your response is going to add anything to the discussion, or just encourage the other person to come back with a "yes you are!"? Look down the long path of the discussion: Is it heading into a place where a reader will learn something?

* A sense of humor is good.

* A sense of humor is good. But if you're talking only sarcastically then there's a good chance you're over-simplifying the other position or engaging in strawman argument.

** If you're using sarcasm are you also adding something substantive to the debate?

* Explain what your point applies to. If your point is about the overall sense or tone then say so. If you agree with part of an argument but disagree with another part, then specify the points of disagreement as well as agreement, before detailing the points of disagreement.

* Effective communicators are generally not just adversarial: They seek to understand what the other person is saying, and why, and seek for the common ground on which there might be legitimate dispute.

* Generally, people represent themselves. They don't represent all of a fandom. They don't represent everyone else in a discussion group. They don't represent everyone in their gender, their ideology, their race, their class, their nationality. Don't try to speak for others and don't assign an individual's statements to other members of a group and don't assign other group members' statements to an individual.

** Don't start talking about "we" think this or "we" said this -- because who is the "we" anyway? And can you really accurately sum them up?

** And if you start out with "we" or "I" don't switch mid-way through.

* Don't mischaracterize what other people say: Don't put words in their mouths, don't suggest that they said something they didn't, don't reduce the complexity of their argument.

* If someone else is mischaracterizing your argument, do call them on it. But don't <I>just</I> call them on it. You should understand and be able to justify your explanation.

[[category:FSFNet Working Groups]]

FSFblog communication guidelines

2006-08-02T21:32:22Z

128.122.73.84: /* Sources */

This is a working document. It is intended to hone and revise feminist guidelines for effective discussion, debate, and argument.

==Goals==

# Provisionally, these guidelines should enable and facilitate communication, by providing standards relating to listening, respectfully hearing substantive points, and responding respectfully to substantive arguments. Basically, how to engage in conversation usefully.

# However, they also should deal with how to simultaneously engage in meta-analysis of the flow of discussion, so that you can see when inappropriate and nonproductive communication techniques are coming in -- including sexist or racist or elitist language or stances. Basically, how to see when a conversation is being derailed.

# Finally, the guidelines should include information about when and how to redirect a conversation to keep it flowing; or to cut it off. This should include information about when it is appropriate to bring up meta-analysis of the conversation -- not responding to a point, but pointing out some characteristic about how another person is arguing. Also, if not appropriate to engage in meta-analysis, how to direct back to appropriate channels. When is it better to do it "offline" in a private setting, and when is it better to engage a behavior publicly. Basically, how to heal or kill conversations.

''Other Thoughts'': How to protect yourself; how to protect others; how to teach someone else; how to recognize a teaching moment; how to not feel responsible for representing 100% of the time; how to engage in group conversation dynamics; etc.

===Prospective Uses===

* At the least, a guide for discussion on the feministsf.net forums -- blog, forums, wiki, and so on.
* Should be useful as rules for all discussion participants and moderators

==Status==

* Right now this is both redundant and inconsistent! But it needs to be rewritten because some people don't know how to argue.

== Caveat ==

Politeness and good communication and civility and respectfulness all depend on political circumstances. The goal of feminism is not politeness, good communication, civility, or respectfulness, but women's liberation from political, social and economic oppression.

Because the ''[[incumbent]]s'' dictate the nature of civility, there is no such thing as a polite revolution.

This Wiki cannot function as a feminist tool if it is divorced from its cause and wedded to abstacted views of interpersonal relations. Therefore, the guidelines below must '''always''' be considered in a political context.

==Sources==

* The WisCon moderators' rules might be of use.
* Something to be gleaned from [http://roar-of-comics.blogspot.com/2006/06/flame-on.html this analysis] of weird & inappropriate communications on the part of commenter?
* http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2005/12/02/how-not-to-be-insane-when-accused-of-racism/
* http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/607897.html

==Draft==

'''Communications 101: How to Argue Effectively & Respectfully''' (title)

Communication styles, like everything else, is a feminist issue. Moreover, having clear, respectful communications makes discussions effective & useful for readers and participants alike. So, here are a few tips & no-nos: (preamble)

Guidelines - need to be organized, clarified, rationalized as a system.

* Respond to the substance of the argument, not the speaker's identity and not the speaker's style.

* But if the speaker's identity or style are relevant to a meta-discussion then say so.

* Be aware when you are leaving the original topic and moving into meta-discussion / processing / pissing wars. Sometimes this is good: Seeing sexism or racism in a discussion and addressing it right then, head-on. But sometimes it's bad: Getting into pointless back-and-forth pissing wars about increasingly irrelevant minutiae, misunderstandings, what was said, etc.

* If you see yourself going meta, you should understand why you want to, very clearly. And before posting you should make a conscious decision that it is appropriate; it will further the discussion; it is in keeping with feminist principles of full & effective communications for all.

* Repeat: Self-awareness. Not knee-jerk responses. Anger is good, healthy, strong. Pissiness is annoying. If you have a righteous anger over a wrong that is being committed, express it! Voice your anger. Use strong language if you like or it's appropriate.

* Respect other people. Saying that a statement, an argument, or a worldview is fucked-up or sexist or racist is different from saying that someone is fucked-up or sexist or racist. Attempting to classify someone else is disrespectful to them.

* If someone is being disrespectful then don't tolerate it.

* Engaging in a pissing match with someone who is being disrespectful is not interesting to the rest of the world. Helping them figure out what they're doing wrong is useful. Pointing out to the forum moderators that they are inappropriate is useful.

* Don't engage in pissing wars.

** If your only response is basically "You're a --" or "No I'm not!" then you're not adding anything of substance to the discussion. Are you characterizing / defending / explaining your own statements, or are you talking about the subject of discussion and adding to it?

** If you feel the need to characterize / defend / explain your own statements, then you better understand why they were mischaracterized / attacked / misunderstood. That means understanding how you miscommunicated to begin with.

** If your response is directed to one person only then it's probably not interesting to everyone else even if you want them to hear it. Think about why you want to respond publicly to the comment. Is it because you feel insulted or aggrieved?

** Consider whether your response is going to add anything to the discussion, or just encourage the other person to come back with a "yes you are!"? Look down the long path of the discussion: Is it heading into a place where a reader will learn something?

* A sense of humor is good.

* A sense of humor is good. But if you're talking only sarcastically then there's a good chance you're over-simplifying the other position or engaging in strawman argument.

** If you're using sarcasm are you also adding something substantive to the debate?

* Explain what your point applies to. If your point is about the overall sense or tone then say so. If you agree with part of an argument but disagree with another part, then specify the points of disagreement as well as agreement, before detailing the points of disagreement.

* Effective communicators are generally not just adversarial: They seek to understand what the other person is saying, and why, and seek for the common ground on which there might be legitimate dispute.

* Generally, people represent themselves. They don't represent all of a fandom. They don't represent everyone else in a discussion group. They don't represent everyone in their gender, their ideology, their race, their class, their nationality. Don't try to speak for others and don't assign an individual's statements to other members of a group and don't assign other group members' statements to an individual.

** Don't start talking about "we" think this or "we" said this -- because who is the "we" anyway? And can you really accurately sum them up?

** And if you start out with "we" or "I" don't switch mid-way through.

* Don't mischaracterize what other people say: Don't put words in their mouths, don't suggest that they said something they didn't, don't reduce the complexity of their argument.

* If someone else is mischaracterizing your argument, do call them on it. But don't <I>just</I> call them on it. You should understand and be able to justify your explanation.

[[category:FSFNet Working Groups]]

Feminist SF Wiki:Process

2006-08-02T21:31:16Z

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The FSFwiki is a newborn, as of April 23, 2006. Process will be developed, hopefully in a consensus manner. If processes don't develop in a consensus manner, and things start to fall apart in a typically leftist/feminist/movement in-fighting ugliness, then the user administration [[triumviraga]] will step in. If the triumviraga falls apart, then, by the nine-tenths of the law that is possession, [[Lquilter]] will make the decision. But the goal is to set up self-maintaining processes that don't require such interventions. This page will be a home for this information.

Some basic documents on collectives (like this wiki) and gender in collectives:
* [http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/structurelessness.htm The Tyranny of Structurelessness] by Jo Freeman (aka Joreen)
* [http://www.anarco-nyc.net/organizers/organizers6.html On Boys in Collectives] by Mike @Zone
* [http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/06/the-wisdom-of-crowds-the-power-of-virtual-teams The Wisdom of Crowds] article on collective action, distributed teams by Anne Zelenka

Basics on consciousness-raising, which can be helpful for people figuring out their own oppressions and their own complicity in oppressing others:
* [http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/crguide2.html Getting Together: How to Start a Consciousness-Raising Group], by [[Marge Piercy]] and [[Jane Freeman]] ([[1972]])
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_raising "Consciousness Raising"] on Wikipedia
* [http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/fem/sarachild.html "Consciousness Raising: A Radical Weapon] by Kathie Sarachild ([[1978]])
* [http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/crguidelines.html CR Guidelines]
* [http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/crcwlu.html How to Start Your Own CR Group]

How to Interact Regarding Discussions of Hierarchy, Oppression, Discrimination, Etc.:
* [http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/607897.html How to Suppress Discussions of Racism] by coffeeandink
* [http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2005/12/02/how-not-to-be-insane-when-accused-of-racism/ How Not To Be Insane When Accused of Racism (A Guide for White People)] at Alas (a blog)
* [[Communication Guidelines]] here at the FSFwiki

[[category:About]]

Feminist Fairy Tales (WisCon 30 Panel)

2006-08-02T21:05:21Z

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==Panel Description==
53 Feminist Fairy Tales
Reading SF&F•Caucus Room• Friday, 10:15-11:30 p.m.
Old stories told in new ways: ''Paper Bag Princess'', ''Cinderedna'', and others.

==Panelists==
M: Theodora Goss, Beverly Friend, Naomi Kritzer, Anastasia Marie Salter, [[Catherynne M. Valente]]

[[category:WisCon 30 Panels]]

Help:QuickCheatSheet

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* To make a bulleted list, preface each item with an asterisk, e.g.,
:<nowiki>* Item 1</nowiki>

* To make a redirect, edited the new page; the new page text should look like:
:<nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Name of Page]]</nowiki>

* To indent a text in a page, preface the text with a colon like:
:<nowiki>: This is my fabulous text.</nowiki>

* To make a new page, either make a link to it on the old page and click it; or type the URL in the form of:
:<nowiki>http://wiki.feministsf.net/index.php?title=YourPageTitle&action=edit</nowiki>

* To link to a page, type the phrase you want to highlight in square brackets, like this:
:<nowiki>The [[lesbian separatist]] movement generated a lot of creative thinking...</nowiki>
: "lesbian separatist" will be a link; clicking on it will take you to the page named "Lesbian separatist"

* To link to a page, but have the link go to one page, and the text say something different, use the double square brackets, but include a pipe symbol | between the title of the link on the left, and the linked text on the right; for example:
:<nowiki>The [[lesbian separatist|movement to live among and support women]] generated a lot...</nowiki>
This would result in a link on the words "movement to live among and support women", that goes to the page "Lesbian separatist".

* To link to an image, first Upload file (in the toolbox on the left); then reference it in the form:
:<nowiki>[[Image:Filename.gif]]</nowiki>

: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial picture tutorial from wikipedia]

* To type instructions like these without making them actionable, enclose the instructions with "nowiki" in brackets, e.g.,
:<nowiki><nowiki>sample text</nowiki></nowiki>

* BOILERPLATE TEXT - there are some standard messages that can inserted in pages using a tag that will automatically insert some text. For example, spoiler warnings, current events and general editing notices and requests. Type the text in the correct spot, and when you save your edits, the boilerplate text will be automatically inserted with the correct formatting.
:Typing <nowiki>{{Spoiler}}</nowiki> will insert a standard spoiler warning.
:Typing <nowiki>{{endspoiler}}</nowiki> will indicate that the spoiler section has ended.
:Typing <nowiki>{{Current}}</nowiki> will place a notice that the page is documenting a current event.
:Typing <nowiki>{{Cleanup}}</nowiki> will place a notice that asks for someone to clean up the article to make it higher quality.
:Typing <nowiki>{{FillerNeeded}}</nowiki> will place a notice that asks for other people to fill in text in an event transcript.

* to create a link to a category page, without actually adding the current page to the category, type:
:<nowiki>[[:category:CategoryName]]</nowiki>

* help!!! http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

[[category:About]]

Main Page

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Current highlighted projects:
* Please add to the [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] pages, discussing representations of women and ethnicity in LOTR.
* [[Annoying Plot Conventions, Devices, Contrivances]] about gender or things that happen to female characters that make you roll your eyes
* [[Get Her In Print]] - women's works that have fallen out of print or caught in a publishing problem
* add your [[suggestions]] and ideas!

== The Heart of Feminist SF : the community ==

'''[[:category:Events|Events]]'''
* [[WisCon]] -- please [[WisCon 30|add your transcripts, bibliographies, comments & reports]]
* [[Women's Wiki Camp]] (to be renamed later)

'''[[:category:Organizations & Communities|Feminist SF & Related Organizations & Communities]]'''
* [[Secret Feminist Cabal]] & other [[feminist conspiracies]]
* [[feministSF.org]], the host of this wiki, listserves, and various websites over the years ... see http://feministsf.org/
* [[:category:FSFNet Working Groups|FSF.Net Working Groups]] - working groups on various FSF projects
** Think Tankery Working Group, coming soon
** [[Láadan Working Group]]: notes for moving forward

'''[[:category:People|Feminist SF fans, editors, writers, scholars & other people]]'''
* [[Memorials & Remembrances]]
**[[Lisa Barnett]], ([[1958]]-[[2006]])
**[[Octavia Butler]], ([[1947]]-[[2006]])

'''Business of feminist SF'''
* [[Publishers and Presses]]
* [[:category:Writers' Resources|Writers' Resources]] including foundations, grants, writing groups, workshops, etc.
* Women SF Writers' Groups: [[Broad Universe]] and [[SFFFW]]
* [[:category:Awards|Awards]]: [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]] -- The 2005 award was just given to [[Geoff Ryman]]'s [[Air]] at [[WisCon 30]] ... see http://tiptree.org/ for more info. Other awards: Carl Brandon Society [[Carl Brandon Parallax Award|Parallax Award]] and [[Carl Brandon Kindred Award|Kindred Award]] ... Gaylactic [[Spectrum Awards]] ... SFFFW [[Roots in Writing Award]] ... [[Sense of Gender Award]]
* [[:category:Editors|Editors]]
* [[:category:Agents|Agents]]

'''Fandom'''
* [[:category:SF Conventions|SF Conventions]]
* [[Women in Fandom]]

== FSF Books, Authors, Etc. ==

'''Writers & Other Creators'''
* [[Author List]] and
* [[Artists|Artists, Musicians, Etc.]]

'''Books & Bibliographies'''
* [[Influential Feminist FSF Books]]
* [[Canons]]
* [[Reading Paths]]
* [[:category:Reading & Media Lists|Reading & Media Lists]]
** [[Feminist Comic Books for Kids]]
* [[:category:Films|Films]]

'''Themes & Characterizations'''
* [[List of Themes|Literary Devices, Tropes, Themes, Plot Points]] common to Feminist SF
** [[Myths]] of particular interest to FSF
* [[Women in SF]]
** [[Archetypal Female Characters in SF|Archetypal]] female characters (needs filler)
*** the [[Black Warrior Woman]]
** [[Women in SF Art]]
** [[:category:Notable Female Characters|Notable Female Characters]]
** [[:category:Mythological Female Characters|Mythological Female Characters]]

'''Scholarship'''
* [[Courses]] and [[Syllabi]]
* [[FeministSF Critical Theory]]
* [[:category:Scholars|Scholars]]

* [[Timeline]] of Women in SF & Feminist SF
* [[Related]] related information on "SF" or "feminism" etc.
* [[Quotes]]

== What is this? ==

* what's the [[mission|feministSF wiki]]?
** what's the FSFwiki [[mission]]?
** what's the [[FSFwiki process]] for negotiating disputes & the like?
** why aren't you just putting this stuff on [[wikipedia]]?
** "can I do it?" yes. Anybody can edit text -- go ahead, try it! Click "edit" at the top of the page ... (Except for this first page ... You have to log in & create a userID to edit the first page, a protection added because of linkspam.) See the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] or the [[QuickCheatSheet|Quick Cheat Sheet]]
*** want to do more?: If you want to be a super-editor and help do initial technical configurations of the wiki, write [[User:Lquilter|Laura Quilter]] or lquilter at lquilter.net with "fsfwiki" in the subject line.
*** how do I make [[suggestions]]? (add them to the [[suggestions]] page)
*** how can I help? contribute to our [[To Do List]]
*** [[Wiki Office Hours]] - Scheduled time when someone will be on the wiki, hoping for collaboration and chat in realtime

* what's [[feminist SF]]?
* what's [[feminism]]?
** what are some [[:category:Feminist Issues|feminist issues]] and [[:category:Feminist Processes|feminist processes]]?
* what's [[SF]]?

* what's a wiki? how do I edit it?
** [[QuickCheatSheet|Quick Cheat Sheet]]

* [[Funding|How is this funded? Can I donate?]]

... more [[:category:About|About]]

== Navigation ==

* [[Special:Allpages|A-Z Index of All Pages]]

Feminist SF Wiki:To Do list

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* get a better template!!!
* help figure out some basic category questions: what are the top-level categories, for instance?
* set the default search to include categories !!!
* Book sources - something about ISBNs ???

[[category:About]]

Matriarchal hive species

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* [[Borg Queen]] in [[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]
* hive-like matriarchies a la Frank Herbert's [[Hellstrom's Hive]]
* hive queen etc. in [[Ender's Game]]
* the planetary consciousness in [[Daughters of an Emerald Dusk]]
* Poul Anderson's [[Virgin Planet]]

see also [[Sentient Planets]]

[[category:Reading & Media Lists]]

Canon by Format and Title

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Canon by Format and Title - by Cynthia Ward. This was a list assembled by Cynthia Ward for The Internet Review of Science Fiction. (cf. "Feminist SF: Futures for Humankind"). It is organized by format (novel, short form, anthology) and title. Authors marked with an asterick are essential feminist SF authors, and most or all their SF is relevant.

===Essential Novels===

* Ammonite by Nicola Griffith*
An offworld anthropologist must discover how the women of planet GP continue to reproduce after a virus kills all the men.
* Benefits by Zoe Fairbairns
Men use near-future reproductive technology to control women.
* Black Wine by Candas Jane Dorsey
A challenging saga of mothers and daughters.
* The Book of Ash by Mary Gentle*
The complex story of an alternate-history Joan of Arc. Published in the U.S. as four books, A Secret History et seq.
* The Disappearance by Philip Wylie
The opposite sex vanishes.
* Divine Endurance by Gwyneth Jones*
A female android wanders a matriarchal post-apocalyptic land.
* Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre*
Nuclear holocaust alters male-female relations.
* Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes by Gerd Brantenberg
(a.k.a. Daughters of Egalia) Biological differences between men and women prove female superiority.
* The Female Man by Joanna Russ*
The battle of the sexes becomes literal war.
* The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
Men and women must live apart to ensure human survival.
* The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
A near-future theocracy systematically dehumanizes women.
* Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Three male explorers discover an isolated all-female society.
* The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin*
On the planet Gethen, gender does not exist...most of the time.
* Mizora by Mary E. Bradley Lane
A race of technologically advanced superwomen inhabits the hollow Earth.
* Native Tongue et seq. by Suzette Haden Elgin*
Oppressed women invent their own language.
* Parable of the Sower et seq. by Octavia E. Butler*
As America descends into barbarism, a woman founds a new religion.
* Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler
A mysterious woman polarizes reactions in nineteenth-century America.
* The Shattered Chain et seq. by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The first novel focusing on the Renunciates, or Free Amazons of Darkover (collected with its sequels in The Saga of the Renunciates).
* Triton by Samuel R. Delany
(a.k.a Trouble on Triton) In a future of dazzling diversity, one man becomes a woman.
* Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon
The only way to end the war between the sexes is to replace both men and women with a new sex.
* Walk to the End of the World et seq. by Suzy McKee Charnas*
Enslavement of women leads to war—and more shocking acts.
* A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason*
Humans encounter an alien race trapped by its own sexuality.
* Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
A contemporary woman visits a future of true sexual equality.

===Essential Short Fiction===

* "All My Darling Daughters" by Connie Willis
New reproductive imperatives engender profound sexual alienation.
* "Baby You Were Great" by Kate Wilhelm
In this proto-cyberpunk classic, a woman is used and abused to broadcast emotion to the masses [available online].
* "A Birthday" by Esther M. Friesner
Scary dystopia extracts a grim price for abortion.
* "Consider Her Ways" by John Wyndham
Men are extinct and society is perfect.
* "Even the Queen...." by Connie Willis
When menstruation is eliminated, women take over the world.
* "The Forbidden Words of Margaret A." by L. Timmel Duchamp*
One woman's words are so powerful, a Constitutional Amendment is passed to silence her.
* "The Heat Death of the Universe" by Pamela Zoline
A housewife experiences entropy.
* "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" by James Tiptree, Jr.*
Timewarped astronauts find themselves in a future in which they, being men, are obsolete.
* "My Lady Tongue" by Lucy Sussex
A near-future women-only community engenders prejudices of its own.
* "The Logistics of Carthage" by Mary Gentle
Those who write history stunt identity. Set in the world of The Book of Ash.
* "Motherhood, Etc." by L. Timmel Duchamp
Men respond to a woman with a crucial difference.
* "The Screwfly Solution" by James Tiptree, Jr.
Aliens interfere with the human reproductive drive, to deadly effect for both sexes. (First published under the byline Raccoona Sheldon.)
* "The View from Venus" by Karen Joy Fowler
Aliens observe male-female mating rituals.
* "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ
A lost extrasolar colony is rediscovered by Earthmen centuries after plague killed all the male colonists.
* "The Women Men Don't See" by James Tiptree, Jr.
Life with unknown aliens is better than life with men.

===Essential Anthologies and Collections===

* Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Debbie Notkin
Reprints many Tiptree Award winners and finalists.
* Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr.
This indispensable collection contains several classic feminist-SF stories.
* Love's Body, Dancing in Time by L. Timmel Duchamp
Women find within themselves the freedom and power denied by society.
* The Start of the End of It All by Carol Emshwiller*
Eighteen incisive stories about women, men, animals, and aliens.
* The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women by Sally Miller Gearhart
In an estranged future, men and women live apart.
* Weird Women, Wired Women by Kit Reed*
Collects twenty stories from thirty years of insightful science-fictional examination of women's roles and issues.
* Women of Wonder: The Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s and Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s edited by Pamela Sargent
This definitive two-volume historical overview collects short SF written by women.

[[category:Canons]]

Talk:Canon by Format and Title

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did Cynthia Ward give permission for her list to be reposted here? if not, then perhaps this should just be a link to the official version

Canon by Format and Title

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===Essential Novels===

* Ammonite by Nicola Griffith*
An offworld anthropologist must discover how the women of planet GP continue to reproduce after a virus kills all the men.
* Benefits by Zoe Fairbairns
Men use near-future reproductive technology to control women.
* Black Wine by Candas Jane Dorsey
A challenging saga of mothers and daughters.
* The Book of Ash by Mary Gentle*
The complex story of an alternate-history Joan of Arc. Published in the U.S. as four books, A Secret History et seq.
* The Disappearance by Philip Wylie
The opposite sex vanishes.
* Divine Endurance by Gwyneth Jones*
A female android wanders a matriarchal post-apocalyptic land.
* Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre*
Nuclear holocaust alters male-female relations.
* Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes by Gerd Brantenberg
(a.k.a. Daughters of Egalia) Biological differences between men and women prove female superiority.
* The Female Man by Joanna Russ*
The battle of the sexes becomes literal war.
* The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
Men and women must live apart to ensure human survival.
* The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
A near-future theocracy systematically dehumanizes women.
* Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Three male explorers discover an isolated all-female society.
* The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin*
On the planet Gethen, gender does not exist...most of the time.
* Mizora by Mary E. Bradley Lane
A race of technologically advanced superwomen inhabits the hollow Earth.
* Native Tongue et seq. by Suzette Haden Elgin*
Oppressed women invent their own language.
* Parable of the Sower et seq. by Octavia E. Butler*
As America descends into barbarism, a woman founds a new religion.
* Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler
A mysterious woman polarizes reactions in nineteenth-century America.
* The Shattered Chain et seq. by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The first novel focusing on the Renunciates, or Free Amazons of Darkover (collected with its sequels in The Saga of the Renunciates).
* Triton by Samuel R. Delany
(a.k.a Trouble on Triton) In a future of dazzling diversity, one man becomes a woman.
* Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon
The only way to end the war between the sexes is to replace both men and women with a new sex.
* Walk to the End of the World et seq. by Suzy McKee Charnas*
Enslavement of women leads to war—and more shocking acts.
* A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason*
Humans encounter an alien race trapped by its own sexuality.
* Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
A contemporary woman visits a future of true sexual equality.

===Essential Short Fiction===

* "All My Darling Daughters" by Connie Willis
New reproductive imperatives engender profound sexual alienation.
* "Baby You Were Great" by Kate Wilhelm
In this proto-cyberpunk classic, a woman is used and abused to broadcast emotion to the masses [available online].
* "A Birthday" by Esther M. Friesner
Scary dystopia extracts a grim price for abortion.
* "Consider Her Ways" by John Wyndham
Men are extinct and society is perfect.
* "Even the Queen...." by Connie Willis
When menstruation is eliminated, women take over the world.
* "The Forbidden Words of Margaret A." by L. Timmel Duchamp*
One woman's words are so powerful, a Constitutional Amendment is passed to silence her.
* "The Heat Death of the Universe" by Pamela Zoline
A housewife experiences entropy.
* "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" by James Tiptree, Jr.*
Timewarped astronauts find themselves in a future in which they, being men, are obsolete.
* "My Lady Tongue" by Lucy Sussex
A near-future women-only community engenders prejudices of its own.
* "The Logistics of Carthage" by Mary Gentle
Those who write history stunt identity. Set in the world of The Book of Ash.
* "Motherhood, Etc." by L. Timmel Duchamp
Men respond to a woman with a crucial difference.
* "The Screwfly Solution" by James Tiptree, Jr.
Aliens interfere with the human reproductive drive, to deadly effect for both sexes. (First published under the byline Raccoona Sheldon.)
* "The View from Venus" by Karen Joy Fowler
Aliens observe male-female mating rituals.
* "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ
A lost extrasolar colony is rediscovered by Earthmen centuries after plague killed all the male colonists.
* "The Women Men Don't See" by James Tiptree, Jr.
Life with unknown aliens is better than life with men.

===Essential Anthologies and Collections===

* Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Debbie Notkin
Reprints many Tiptree Award winners and finalists.
* Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr.
This indispensable collection contains several classic feminist-SF stories.
* Love's Body, Dancing in Time by L. Timmel Duchamp
Women find within themselves the freedom and power denied by society.
* The Start of the End of It All by Carol Emshwiller*
Eighteen incisive stories about women, men, animals, and aliens.
* The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women by Sally Miller Gearhart
In an estranged future, men and women live apart.
* Weird Women, Wired Women by Kit Reed*
Collects twenty stories from thirty years of insightful science-fictional examination of women's roles and issues.
* Women of Wonder: The Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s and Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s edited by Pamela Sargent
This definitive two-volume historical overview collects short SF written by women.

[[category:Canons]]

Canons

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Historical Canon

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This list was assembled initially by [[Liz Henry]], which is organized chronologically by when the story was written. She notes that more young adult titles should perhaps be added to the list. (cf. [http://badgerbag.livejournal.com/11843.html?nc=18 "Possible canons"])

* Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
* The Mystery of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe
* (''Perhaps some gothic short stories by Elizabeth Gaskell or Louisa May Alcott'')
* The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
* The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett
* The Feather Pillow, Horacio Quiroga
* ''(perhaps something by Juana Gorriti instead of the above)''
* Orlando, by Virginia Woolf
* "The Monkey" or "The Roads Round Pisa", by Isak Dinesen
* Memoirs of a Spacewoman, by Naomi Mitchison
* Carmen Dog, by Carol Emshwiller
* The Wanderground, by Sally Gearhart
* The Gate to Women's Country, by Sherri Tepper
* Walk to the End of the World, by Suzy McKee Charnas
* The Female Man, by Joanna Russ
* "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" by James Tiptree Jr
* The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. LeGuin
* Women of Wonder, edited by Pamela Sargent
* Xenogenesis, by Octavia Butler
* White Queen, Gwyneth Jones
* Cetaganda, by Lois McMaster Bujold
* Troll, by Johanna Sinisalo

[[category:Canons]]

Talk:Historical Canon

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* if this is a contribution by a particular person, intended to be credited to that person or as an example of that person's individual view, then maybe it should be protected from editing? maybe everyone can submit their own canons?

Historical Canon

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Canons

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This idea of a feminist SF canon would be to take a subset of the most outstanding and representative works to suggest to those unfamiliar with it. The [http://www.tiptree.org/ Tiptree Awards] give a top choice and a short list for each year. However, a canon for reading in general would include works from before the award began. It might also make different choices to be more representative. By agreeing on a central set of works to suggest to those new to the category, then readers will eventually have a set of stories that they know in common which they can use as material for comparison and to discuss new works.

There are at least several ways to organize such as canon...

* [[Historical Canon]]
* [[Canon by Format and Title]]

==A Canon By Format and Title==

This was a list assembled by Cynthia Ward for The Internet Review of Science Fiction. (cf. [http://www.irosf.com/zine/article/10054 "Feminist SF: Futures for Humankind"]). It is organized by format (novel, short form, anthology) and title. Authors marked with an asterick are essential feminist SF authors, and most or all their SF is relevant.

===Essential Novels===

* Ammonite by Nicola Griffith*
An offworld anthropologist must discover how the women of planet GP continue to reproduce after a virus kills all the men.
* Benefits by Zoe Fairbairns
Men use near-future reproductive technology to control women.
* Black Wine by Candas Jane Dorsey
A challenging saga of mothers and daughters.
* The Book of Ash by Mary Gentle*
The complex story of an alternate-history Joan of Arc. Published in the U.S. as four books, A Secret History et seq.
* The Disappearance by Philip Wylie
The opposite sex vanishes.
* Divine Endurance by Gwyneth Jones*
A female android wanders a matriarchal post-apocalyptic land.
* Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre*
Nuclear holocaust alters male-female relations.
* Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes by Gerd Brantenberg
(a.k.a. Daughters of Egalia) Biological differences between men and women prove female superiority.
* The Female Man by Joanna Russ*
The battle of the sexes becomes literal war.
* The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
Men and women must live apart to ensure human survival.
* The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
A near-future theocracy systematically dehumanizes women.
* Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Three male explorers discover an isolated all-female society.
* The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin*
On the planet Gethen, gender does not exist...most of the time.
* Mizora by Mary E. Bradley Lane
A race of technologically advanced superwomen inhabits the hollow Earth.
* Native Tongue et seq. by Suzette Haden Elgin*
Oppressed women invent their own language.
* Parable of the Sower et seq. by Octavia E. Butler*
As America descends into barbarism, a woman founds a new religion.
* Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler
A mysterious woman polarizes reactions in nineteenth-century America.
* The Shattered Chain et seq. by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The first novel focusing on the Renunciates, or Free Amazons of Darkover (collected with its sequels in The Saga of the Renunciates).
* Triton by Samuel R. Delany
(a.k.a Trouble on Triton) In a future of dazzling diversity, one man becomes a woman.
* Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon
The only way to end the war between the sexes is to replace both men and women with a new sex.
* Walk to the End of the World et seq. by Suzy McKee Charnas*
Enslavement of women leads to war—and more shocking acts.
* A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason*
Humans encounter an alien race trapped by its own sexuality.
* Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
A contemporary woman visits a future of true sexual equality.

===Essential Short Fiction===

* "All My Darling Daughters" by Connie Willis
New reproductive imperatives engender profound sexual alienation.
* "Baby You Were Great" by Kate Wilhelm
In this proto-cyberpunk classic, a woman is used and abused to broadcast emotion to the masses [available online].
* "A Birthday" by Esther M. Friesner
Scary dystopia extracts a grim price for abortion.
* "Consider Her Ways" by John Wyndham
Men are extinct and society is perfect.
* "Even the Queen...." by Connie Willis
When menstruation is eliminated, women take over the world.
* "The Forbidden Words of Margaret A." by L. Timmel Duchamp*
One woman's words are so powerful, a Constitutional Amendment is passed to silence her.
* "The Heat Death of the Universe" by Pamela Zoline
A housewife experiences entropy.
* "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" by James Tiptree, Jr.*
Timewarped astronauts find themselves in a future in which they, being men, are obsolete.
* "My Lady Tongue" by Lucy Sussex
A near-future women-only community engenders prejudices of its own.
* "The Logistics of Carthage" by Mary Gentle
Those who write history stunt identity. Set in the world of The Book of Ash.
* "Motherhood, Etc." by L. Timmel Duchamp
Men respond to a woman with a crucial difference.
* "The Screwfly Solution" by James Tiptree, Jr.
Aliens interfere with the human reproductive drive, to deadly effect for both sexes. (First published under the byline Raccoona Sheldon.)
* "The View from Venus" by Karen Joy Fowler
Aliens observe male-female mating rituals.
* "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ
A lost extrasolar colony is rediscovered by Earthmen centuries after plague killed all the male colonists.
* "The Women Men Don't See" by James Tiptree, Jr.
Life with unknown aliens is better than life with men.

===Essential Anthologies and Collections===

* Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Debbie Notkin
Reprints many Tiptree Award winners and finalists.
* Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr.
This indispensable collection contains several classic feminist-SF stories.
* Love's Body, Dancing in Time by L. Timmel Duchamp
Women find within themselves the freedom and power denied by society.
* The Start of the End of It All by Carol Emshwiller*
Eighteen incisive stories about women, men, animals, and aliens.
* The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women by Sally Miller Gearhart
In an estranged future, men and women live apart.
* Weird Women, Wired Women by Kit Reed*
Collects twenty stories from thirty years of insightful science-fictional examination of women's roles and issues.
* Women of Wonder: The Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s and Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s edited by Pamela Sargent
This definitive two-volume historical overview collects short SF written by women.

[[category:Reading & Media Lists]] [[category:Scholarship]]
[[category:Canons]]

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[[category:Reading & Media Lists]]

Influential feminist SF books

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*[[Eleanor Arnason]]
**''[[A Woman of the Iron People]]'', [[1991]]
**''[[Ring of Swords]]'', [[1993]]

*[[Margaret Atwood]]
**''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'', [[1985]]

*[[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]
**''[[The Shattered Chain ]]'', 1976 ''[[Thendara House]]'', 1983, and ''[[City of Sorcery]]'', 1984, (collected as ''[[The Saga of the Renunciates]]'', 2002)
**''[[The Mists of Avalon]]'', 1983

*[[Octavia E. Butler]]
**''[[Parable of the Talents]]'',[[1998]]
**''[[Bloodchild and Other Stories]]'', [[1995]]
**''[[Parable of the Sower]]'',[[1994]]
**''[[Dawn]]'', [[1988]] (Xenogenesis, book 1)
**''[[Kindred]]'', [[1979]]

*[[Samuel R. Delany]]
**''[[Babel-17]]'', [[1966]]

*[[Suzy McKee Charnas]]
**''[[The Conqueror's Child]]'', [[1999]] (Holdfast, book 4)
**''[[The Furies]]'', [[1995]] (Holdfast, book 3)
**''[[Motherlines]]'', [[1979]] (Holdfast, book 2)
**''[[Walk to the End of the World]]'', [[1974]] (Holdfast, book 1)

*[[Suzette Haden Elgin]]
**''[[Native Tongue]]'', [[1984]]

*[[Sally Miller Gearhart]]
**''[[The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women]]'', [[1979]]

*[[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]]
**''[[Herland]]'', [[1915]]

*[[Nicola Griffith]]
**''[[Ammonite]]'', [[1993]]

*[[Ursula K. Le Guin]]
**''[[The Birthday of the World and Other Stories]]'', [[2002]]
**''[[The Dispossessed]]'', [[1974]]
**''[[Four Ways to Forgiveness]]'', [[1995]]
**''[[The Left Hand of Darkness]]'', [[1969]]
**''[[Tehanu]]'', [[1990]] (Earthsea, book 4)

*[[Vonda N. McIntyre]]
**''[[Dreamsnake]]'', [[1979]]

*[[Naomi Mitchison]]
**''[[Memoirs of a Spacewoman]]'', [[1962]]

*[[Marge Piercy]]
**''[[Woman on the Edge of Time]]'', [[1976]]

*[[Joanna Russ]]
**''[[The Adventures of Alyx]]'', [[1985]]
**''[[Extra(Ordinary) People]]'', [[1985]]
**''[[The Female Man]]'', [[1975]]
**''[[The Two of Them]]'', [[1975]]
**''[[We Who Are About To...]]'', [[1977]]

*[[Joan Slonczewski]]
**''[[A Door into Ocean]]'', [[1987]]

*[[Sheri S. Tepper]]
**''[[Beauty]]'', [[1993]]
**''[[The Gate to Women's Country]]'', [[1988]]

*[[James Tiptree, Jr]]
**''[[Her Smoke Rose Up Forever]]'', [[1990]]

*[[Élisabeth Vonarburg]]
**''[[In the Mother's Land]]'', [[1992]]

*[[Kate Wilhelm]]
**''[[Juniper Time]]'', 1980
**''[[The Clewiston Test]]'', [[1977]]

*[[Monique Wittig]]
**''[[Les Guérillères]]'', [[1969]]

*[[Virginia Woolf]]
**''[[Orlando]]'', [[1928]]

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[[category:Canons]]

Rape in SF

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Coerced sex.

See [[rapability]] for a discussion of the ways in which female characters are always figured as rapable or placed in peril of rape.

==List of Works==

Works in which rape is a central theme, or central in development of plot or character.

* Suzy McKee Charnas. Walk to the End of the World
* Lois Gould. A Sea Change (1976)
* Elizabeth Hand. "Cleopatra Brimstone" in Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction, edited by Al Sarrantonio (2001)
* Nalo Hopkinson. Midnight Robber (2000) [child abuse]
* Gwyneth Jones. The White Queen [alien rapes human thru mixed signals]
* Mercedes Lackey. Magic's Price (1990) [homosexual gang rape]
* Mercedes Lackey. Arrows' Fall (1988)
* Sam Merwin. Chauvinisto (1976)
* Diana Rivers. Journey to Zelindar: The Personal Account of Sair of Semasi: Book 986 of the Hadra Archives (Lace Publications, 1987) (Hadra 3) (A country of lesbian separatists, the Hadra, is protected by the Goddess in a patriarchal society. After a gang-rape, Sair of Semasi escapes her country after a rape and is taken in by the Hadra.)
* Mary Doria Russell. The Sparrow
* James Tiptree, Jr. "Mama come Home" (1968) [alien females rape human males]
* John Varley. Titan (Gaean Trilogy v.1)
* Kate Wilhelm. The Clewiston Test (1976)
* Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. "False Dawn" (the story, which was part of the book) in Strange Bedfellows edited by Thomas Scortia (1972).
* Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. "Un Bel Di" in Two Views of Wonder, edited by Thomas Scortia and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (New York: Ballantine, 1973)

[[category:Reading & Media Lists]]

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128.122.73.84:

Rape in SF

2006-06-23T21:53:31Z

128.122.73.84: /* Works in which rape is a central theme, or central in development of plot or character */

Coerced sex.

See [[rapability]] for a discussion of the ways in which female characters are always figured as rapable or placed in peril of rape.

==Works in which rape is a central theme, or central in development of plot or character==

* Suzy McKee Charnas. Walk to the End of the World
* Lois Gould. A Sea Change (1976)
* Elizabeth Hand. "Cleopatra Brimstone" in Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction, edited by Al Sarrantonio (2001)
* Nalo Hopkinson. Midnight Robber (2000) [child abuse]
* Gwyneth Jones. The White Queen [alien rapes human thru mixed signals]
* Mercedes Lackey. Magic's Price (1990) [homosexual gang rape]
* Mercedes Lackey. Arrows' Fall (1988)
* Sam Merwin. Chauvinisto (1976)
* Diana Rivers. Journey to Zelindar: The Personal Account of Sair of Semasi: Book 986 of the Hadra Archives (Lace Publications, 1987) (Hadra 3) (A country of lesbian separatists, the Hadra, is protected by the Goddess in a patriarchal society. After a gang-rape, Sair of Semasi escapes her country after a rape and is taken in by the Hadra.)
* Mary Doria Russell. The Sparrow
* James Tiptree, Jr. "Mama come Home" (1968) [alien females rape human males]
* John Varley. Titan (Gaean Trilogy v.1)
* Kate Wilhelm. The Clewiston Test (1976)
* Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. "False Dawn" (the story, which was part of the book) in Strange Bedfellows edited by Thomas Scortia (1972).
* Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. "Un Bel Di" in Two Views of Wonder, edited by Thomas Scortia and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (New York: Ballantine, 1973)

Rape in SF

2006-06-23T21:52:59Z

128.122.73.84:

Coerced sex.

See [[rapability]] for a discussion of the ways in which female characters are always figured as rapable or placed in peril of rape.

==Works in which rape is a central theme, or central in development of plot or character==

* Suzy McKee Charnas. Walk to the End of the World
* Lois Gould. A Sea Change (1976)
* Elizabeth Hand. "Cleopatra Brimstone" in Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction, edited by Al Sarrantonio (2001)
* Nalo Hopkinson. Midnight Robber (2000) [child abuse]
* Gwyneth Jones. The White Queen [alien rapes human thru mixed signals]
* Mercedes Lackey. Magic's Price (1990) [homosexual gang rape]
* Mercedes Lackey. Arrows' Fall (1988)
* Sam Merwin. Chauvinisto (1976)
* Diana Rivers. Journey to Zelindar: The Personal Account of Sair of Semasi: Book 986 of the Hadra Archives (Lace Publications, 1987) (Hadra 3) (A country of lesbian separatists, the Hadra, is protected by the Goddess in a patriarchal society. After a gang-rape, Sair of Semasi escapes her country after a rape and is taken in by the Hadra.)
* Mary Doria Russell. The Sparrow
* James Tiptree, Jr. "Mama come Home" (1968) [alien females rape human males]
* John Varley. Titan (Gaean Trilogy v.1)
* Kate Wilhelm.
* Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. "False Dawn" (the story, which was part of the book) in Strange Bedfellows edited by Thomas Scortia (1972).
* Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. "Un Bel Di" in Two Views of Wonder, edited by Thomas Scortia and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (New York: Ballantine, 1973)