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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]]

Skewed gender ratios in SF

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Works relating to skewed or skewing gender ratios.

==Alternating Both==

* Philip Wylie. [[The Disappearance]]

==Female Scarcity==
* Marion Zimmer Bradley and John J. Wells [pseud. for Juanita Coulson]. "Another Rib," Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1963.

* Captain Samuel Brunt. A Voyage to Cacklogallinia with a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs, and Manners of that Country (1727). Swift-esque satire; a man visits the moon and sees a happy all-male species that has no sex ...

* Lois McMaster Bujold. [[Ethan of Athos]].

* A. Bertram Chandler. Spartan Planet (1969)

* Thomas S. Gardner. "The Last Woman" in Wonder Stories (April 1932); republished in Moskowitz' When Women Rule (1972)

* Frank Herbert. The White Plague (not all women eliminated but many women killed / infertile)

* Jon Inouye. "Last Man," in A Night Tide (1976) [all women eliminated]

* Day Keene (pseud. for Gunard Hjerstedt, 1903-1969), & Leonard Pruyn. World Without Women (1960)

* Rand B. Lee. "Full Fathom Five My Father Lies," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Feb. 1981; reprinted in Worlds Apart, ed. by Decarnin, Garber & Paleo (1986)

* Lucian. "True History" (approx. 175 A.D.; republished in The Works of Lucian of Samosata (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905)) (only men living on the men)

* Amin Maalouf, 1949- . The First Century After Beatrice (1993; 1995)

* Virgilio Martini. The World Without Women (1936; Iesolo, Italy: Tritone, 1969; New York: Dial, 1971) [transl. by Emile Capouya]. Originally published as Il Mondo Senza Donne. [almost all women die from a mysterious disease]

* Neal Stephenson. [[The Diamond Age]] (near future world in which Chinese sex-selection has resulted in many girls being given away; an army of these girls has been raised)

* Sheri S. Tepper. Six Moon Dance (1998) (half of the female population dies at birth)

==Male Scarcity==

* Poul Anderson. [[Virgin Planet]] (1959) (sexist; an all-woman world (reproducing by a poorly-described parthenogenetic cloning) has been awaiting the coming of Man.)

* David Brin's [[Glory Season]] (world settled by separatists has been designed to have few men)

* Laurajean Ermayne [pseud. for Forrest J. Ackerman]. "[[The Radclyffe Effect]]," in The Science Fiction Worlds of Forrest Ackerman and Friends, Reseda, Calif., Powell Publications, 1969. [the women's reactions when the men disappear]

* [[Caroline Forbes]]. "London Fields" in The Needle on Full (1985) [the men have mostly died out, but then some men are discovered]

* [[Katherine Forrest]]. Daughters of a Coral Dawn. A race of human women leave earth to set up their own world. Eventually a ship from earth, with males & females, encounters this world. Two sequels.

* [[Jane Fletcher]]. The World Celaeno Chose (Dimsdale: London, 1999) - telepathically-induced parthenogenesis (3rd-party telekinesis). First in a series.

* [[Leona Gom]]. [[The Y Chromosome]]. The characters go out of their way to describe their reproductive method -- "ovafusion" -- as neither cloning nor parthenogenesis. Doctors are able to use this method to fuse two eggs together in a woman. Pregnancy and childbirth are normal and the child inherits both parents' genetic material.
:As it happens, there is a completely functional all-women world — but a few men are hiding out. Since they are not incorporated into the main society in any fashion, this still qualifies as a woman-only world.

* [[Nicola Griffith]]. [[Ammonite]]. Women may psychically fertilize one another; pregnancy and childbirth are normal, and the child inherits both parents' genetic material.

* [[Sandi Hall]]. Wingwomen of Hera (Spinsters / Aunt Lute: 1987) - the women of Hera are a parthenogenetic race ...

* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]. "[[The Matter of Seggri]]". Birth ratio of boys to girls has been skewed by disease, and society has changed as a result.

* Charles Eric Maine (pseud. for David McIlwain, born 1921) [[World Without Men]] (1958) (republished as ''Alph'' (1972) (sexist; a static world of lesbians may be saved by cloning a manly man)

* A. R. Morlan. "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1993) (in ''Full Spectrum 4'') (most men have died; women begin outdoing men at warfare)

* [[Merril Mushroom]]. Daughters of Khaton. Actually, it's not exactly clear that women are reproducing parthenogenetically, or if a plant is just making babies for them. The plant definitely seems to be doing it, but somehow by taking the genetics of the women ...

* [[Anne Rice]], ''[[Queen of the Damned]]''. Akasha wants women everywhere to rise up and kill most of the men because of their violence.

* [[Leigh Richards]]. [[Califia's Daughters]]. After a biological disaster, women outnumber men and men are prized above all things.

* [[Joanna Russ]]. [[The Female Man]]. The classic women-only world. Actually, there are several worlds portrayed, but one of them -- [[Whileaway]] -- is a women-only world. --. "[[When It Changed]]" (initially published: 1972, in Again, Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison) (This was the first story published about Whileaway. In this story, Whileaway is "found" by men from Earth, who think it a tragedy that men have disappeared from the world 30-odd generations ago, and promise to rectify the situation. This story was a "dangerous vision": women have created a world and lived just fine without men; this was not a feminist utopia, but the women have done just fine and apparently not missed men at all. What kind of world do you have when you have only one sex? A world of people.
:Read The Female Man for more [[Whileaway]]; or read Nicola Griffith's Ammonite for another very human world in which neither the people on the planet nor the reader ever miss males. For more encounters between all-woman societies and men, see: Tiptree's "Houston, Houston, Do You Read" and Merril Mushroom's Daughters of Khaton.

* [[Pamela Sargent]]'s The Shore of Women.

* [[Joan Slonczewski]]. A Door Into Ocean - an all-female aquatic race that reproduces by parthenogenesis. Encounters men.

* [[James Tiptree, Jr.]]. "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" (1976) - a spaceship of men encounters a future earth populated only by women.

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

* [[Susan Weston]]. Children of the Light. Post-holocaust US. Most men have mysteriously died; society is continued in small enclaves visited by government men who impregnate the women (and very young women). One young man is transported into this grim future and makes a life with the women and children of a small village.

* [[Liz Williams]]' [[Banner of Souls]] (2004)

* [[John Wyndham]]. "Consider Her Ways" (1956)

* [[Donna J. Young]]. Retreat: As It Was! (Naiad, 1979) (A long, long time ago, the human race is all women ... )

* [[Zana]]. "Man Plague," [[Sinister Wisdom]] [Berkeley, California], no. 34 (1988)

* [[Molleen Zanger]]. The Year Seven (1993)

* [[Y, the Last Man]]

[[category:Reading & Media Lists]]

Skewed gender ratios in SF

2006-08-12T18:59:33Z

162.83.179.231: /* Male Scarcity */

Works relating to skewed or skewing gender ratios.

==Alternating Both==

* Philip Wylie. [[The Disappearance]]

==Female Scarcity==
* Marion Zimmer Bradley and John J. Wells [pseud. for Juanita Coulson]. "Another Rib," Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1963.

* Captain Samuel Brunt. A Voyage to Cacklogallinia with a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs, and Manners of that Country (1727). Swift-esque satire; a man visits the moon and sees a happy all-male species that has no sex ...

* Lois McMaster Bujold. [[Ethan of Athos]].

* A. Bertram Chandler. Spartan Planet (1969)

* Thomas S. Gardner. "The Last Woman" in Wonder Stories (April 1932); republished in Moskowitz' When Women Rule (1972)

* Frank Herbert. The White Plague (not all women eliminated but many women killed / infertile)

* Jon Inouye. "Last Man," in A Night Tide (1976) [all women eliminated]

* Day Keene (pseud. for Gunard Hjerstedt, 1903-1969), & Leonard Pruyn. World Without Women (1960)

* Rand B. Lee. "Full Fathom Five My Father Lies," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Feb. 1981; reprinted in Worlds Apart, ed. by Decarnin, Garber & Paleo (1986)

* Lucian. "True History" (approx. 175 A.D.; republished in The Works of Lucian of Samosata (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905)) (only men living on the men)

* Amin Maalouf, 1949- . The First Century After Beatrice (1993; 1995)

* Virgilio Martini. The World Without Women (1936; Iesolo, Italy: Tritone, 1969; New York: Dial, 1971) [transl. by Emile Capouya]. Originally published as Il Mondo Senza Donne. [almost all women die from a mysterious disease]

* Neal Stephenson. [[The Diamond Age]] (near future world in which Chinese sex-selection has resulted in many girls being given away; an army of these girls has been raised)

* Sheri S. Tepper. Six Moon Dance (1998) (half of the female population dies at birth)

==Male Scarcity==

* Poul Anderson. [[Virgin Planet]] (1959) (sexist; an all-woman world (reproducing by a poorly-described parthenogenetic cloning) has been awaiting the coming of Man.)

* David Brin's [[Glory Season]] (world settled by separatists has been designed to have few men)

* Laurajean Ermayne [pseud. for Forrest J. Ackerman]. "[[The Radclyffe Effect]]," in The Science Fiction Worlds of Forrest Ackerman and Friends, Reseda, Calif., Powell Publications, 1969. [the women's reactions when the men disappear]

* [[Caroline Forbes]]. "London Fields" in The Needle on Full (1985) [the men have mostly died out, but then some men are discovered]

* [[Katherine Forrest]]. Daughters of a Coral Dawn. A race of human women leave earth to set up their own world. Eventually a ship from earth, with males & females, encounters this world. Two sequels.

* [[Jane Fletcher]]. The World Celaeno Chose (Dimsdale: London, 1999) - telepathically-induced parthenogenesis (3rd-party telekinesis). First in a series.

* [[Leona Gom]]. [[The Y Chromosome]]. The characters go out of their way to describe their reproductive method -- "ovafusion" -- as neither cloning nor parthenogenesis. Doctors are able to use this method to fuse two eggs together in a woman. Pregnancy and childbirth are normal and the child inherits both parents' genetic material.
:As it happens, there is a completely functional all-women world -- but a few men are hiding out. Since they are not incorporated into the main society in any fashion, this still qualifies as a woman-only world.

* [[Nicola Griffith]]. [[Ammonite]]. Women may psychically fertilize one another; pregnancy and childbirth are normal, and the child inherits both parents' genetic material.

* [[Sandi Hall]]. Wingwomen of Hera (Spinsters / Aunt Lute: 1987) - the women of Hera are a parthenogenetic race ...

* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]. "[[The Matter of Seggri]]". Birth ratio of boys to girls has been skewed by disease, and society has changed as a result.

* Charles Eric Maine (pseud. for David McIlwain, born 1921) [[World Without Men]] (1958) (republished as ''Alph'' (1972) (sexist; a static world of lesbians may be saved by cloning a manly man)

* A. R. Morlan. "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1993) (in ''Full Spectrum 4'') (most men have died; women begin outdoing men at warfare)

* [[Merril Mushroom]]. Daughters of Khaton. Actually, it's not exactly clear that women are reproducing parthenogenetically, or if a plant is just making babies for them. The plant definitely seems to be doing it, but somehow by taking the genetics of the women ...

* [[Anne Rice]], ''[[Queen of the Damned]]''. Akasha wants women everywhere to rise up and kill most of the men because of their violence.

* [[Leigh Richards]]. [[Califia's Daughters]]. After a biological disaster, women outnumber men and men are prized above all things.

* [[Joanna Russ]]. [[The Female Man]]. The classic women-only world. Actually, there are several worlds portrayed, but one of them -- [[Whileaway]] -- is a women-only world. --. "[[When It Changed]]" (initially published: 1972, in Again, Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison) (This was the first story published about Whileaway. In this story, Whileaway is "found" by men from Earth, who think it a tragedy that men have disappeared from the world 30-odd generations ago, and promise to rectify the situation. This story was a "dangerous vision": women have created a world and lived just fine without men; this was not a feminist utopia, but the women have done just fine and apparently not missed men at all. What kind of world do you have when you have only one sex? A world of people.
:Read The Female Man for more [[Whileaway]]; or read Nicola Griffith's Ammonite for another very human world in which neither the people on the planet nor the reader ever miss males. For more encounters between all-woman societies and men, see: Tiptree's "Houston, Houston, Do You Read" and Merril Mushroom's Daughters of Khaton.

* [[Pamela Sargent]]'s The Shore of Women.

* [[Joan Slonczewski]]. A Door Into Ocean - an all-female aquatic race that reproduces by parthenogenesis. Encounters men.

* [[James Tiptree, Jr.]]. "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" (1976) - a spaceship of men encounters a future earth populated only by women.

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

* [[Susan Weston]]. Children of the Light. Post-holocaust US. Most men have mysteriously died; society is continued in small enclaves visited by government men who impregnate the women (and very young women). One young man is transported into this grim future and makes a life with the women and children of a small village.

* [[Liz Williams]]' [[Banner of Souls]] (2004)

* [[John Wyndham]]. "Consider Her Ways" (1956)

* [[Donna J. Young]]. Retreat: As It Was! (Naiad, 1979) (A long, long time ago, the human race is all women ... )

* [[Zana]]. "Man Plague," [[Sinister Wisdom]] [Berkeley, California], no. 34 (1988)

* [[Molleen Zanger]]. The Year Seven (1993)

* [[Y, the Last Man]]

[[category:Reading & Media Lists]]