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Women and madness in SF

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* [[Lois McMaster Bujold]] - ''[[The Curse of Chalion]]'' and ''[[Paladin of Souls]]''
* [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]] - "[[The Yellow Wallpaper]]"
* [[Gwyneth Jones]] - ''[[Life]]'' - A major character has a mental / nervous breakdown for some weeks.
* [[Justine Larbalestier]] - "Magic or Madness Trilogy" - A major character has a mental breakdown; madness hangs over many characters.
* [[Norma Marden]] - [[An Eye for Dark Places]] (1993)
* [[Marge Piercy]] - ''[[Woman on the Edge of Time]]'' (in "utopian" future society it is discussed that one character had a breakdown; mental breakdowns are not treated negatively. This is in contrast with treatment of protagonist in modern-day US society, where diagnosis is affected by racism and sexism, and treatment is inhumane and stigmatizing.)
* [[Raccoona Sheldon]] - "[[Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!]]"
* [[Sarah Waters]] - ''[[Affinity]]''

==suggestions & possibilities==

* "A Very Little Madness Goes a Long Way" by M. Rickert

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List of fictional female scientists in SF

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* Dr. Susan Calvin in Asimov's Foundation series
* ''[[Life]]'' by [[Gwyneth Jones]] ("Dr. Anna Senoz")
* ''[[The Clewiston Test]]'' by [[Kate Wilhelm]]

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List of fictional female scientists in SF

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* ''[[Life]]'' by [[Gwyneth Jones]]

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Abortion in SF

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SF About Abortion

* [[Flynn Connolly]], [[The Rising of the Moon]] (1993) (Future Ireland; abortion is still illegal)

* [[Elizabeth DeVos]]. "Out of the Fire" (in Imagination Fully Dilated: Science Fiction, ed. by Robert Kruger & Patrick Swenson) (a phoenix decides not to die; right-to-lifers are concerned that the phoenix will never be reborn)
* [[Lucy Ferriss]]. ''The Misconceivers'' (all about future abortionists)
* [[Esther M. Friesner]]. "A Birthday" (short story, dystopian)
* Joan Givner. ''Half Known Lives'' (2001) (anti-choice male politician is impregnated)
* [[Robert J. Howe]]. "Miscarriage of Justice" (in <I>Salon.com</I>, 2004 March 24) (punishment for abortion is a "life sentence of hard labor")
* [[Marie Jakober]]. ''[[Even the Stones]]'' (originally published as ''High Kamilan'') (abortion scene at beginning of novel; abortion turns out to have been an important aspect of plot)
* [[Thomas F. Monteleone]]. "Breath's a Ware That Will Not Keep" (in Dystopian Visions, edited by Roger Elwood (Prentice Hall: 1975).
* [[Rachel Cosgrove Payes]]. "Come Take a Dip with Me in the Genetic Pool" (in Dystopian Visions, edited by Roger Elwood (Prentice Hall: 1975).
* [[Josephine Saxton]]. "[[Big Operation on Altair Three]]" (in Jen Green & Sarah Lefanu, editors, Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, The Women's Press: 1985) (In a hyper-real world of future advertising, a real live surgery is performed to sell cars ... )
* [[Raccoona Sheldon]]. "Morality Meat" (in Jen Green & Sarah Lefanu, editors, Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, The Women's Press: 1985) (What happens to all the extra babies in a near-future US when abortion has been outlawed?)
* [[Rick Lawler]], editor. ''Abortion Stories: Fiction on Fire'' (1992) (23 stories about abortion; many are SF)
* "[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 television series)|Battlestar Galactica]]" episodes "Epiphanies" (forced abortion) and "The Captain's Hand" (abortion is outlawed with the intent of increasing the population)

see: [[Birth Control]]

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Nicola Griffith

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Award-winning author of [[Ammonite]] and [[Slow River]]. Editor, with [[Stephen Pagel]], of the [[Bending the Landscape]] trilogy of queer fantasy, SF, and horror (respectively). Two non-SF novels: [[The Blue Place]] and the sequel [[Stay]].

==Bibliography==

===Novels===
* ''[[Ammonite]]''
* ''[[Slow River]]''
* ''[[The Blue Place]]''
* ''[[Stay]]''

===Edited Anthologies===
* ''[[Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction]]'' (edited with [[Stephen Pagel]])
* ''[[Bending the Landscape: Fantasy]]'' (edited with [[Stephen Pagel]])
* ''[[Bending the Landscape: Horror]]'' (edited with [[Stephen Pagel]])

==Biography==

Partner with [[Kelley Eskridge]]

==External Links==
* Nicola Griffith's website, at http://nicolagriffith.com/
* The Nicola Griffith Mailing List, at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nicolagriffith/

[[category:Tiptree Award Winning Authors|Griffith, Nicola]]

Joanna Russ

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Joanna Russ (born 22 February 1937), American writer, pioneer of feminist science fiction, essayist.

== Bibliography ==

=== Novels ===
* ''[[Picnic on Paradise]]'' ([[1968]])
* ''[[And Chaos Died]]'' ([[1970]])
* ''[[The Female Man]]'' ([[1975]])
* ''[[We Who Are About To...]]'' ([[1977]])
* ''[[Kittatinny: A Tale of Magic]]'' ([[1978]])
* ''[[The Two of Them]]'' ([[1978]])
* ''[[On Strike Against God]]'' ([[1980]])

=== Collections ===
* ''[[The Adventures of Alyx]]'' ([[1976]])
* ''[[The Zanzibar Cat]]'' ([[1983]])
* ''[[Extra(Ordinary) People]]'' ([[1985]])
* ''[[The Hidden Side of the Moon]]'' ([[1987]])

=== Nonfiction ===
* "[[The Image of Women in Science Fiction]]" ([[1971]])
* ''[[How to Suppress Women's Writing]]'' ([[1983]])
* ''[[Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts: Feminist Essays]]'' ([[1985]])
* ''[[To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction]]'' ([[1995]])
* ''[[What Are We Fighting For? Sex, Race, Class, and the Future of Feminism]]'' ([[1998]])
* ''[[The Country You Have Never Seen]]'' (forthcoming)

=== Notable Short Stories ===
* "[[The Zanzibar Cat (story)|The Zanzibar Cat]]" ([[1971]])
* "[[When It Changed]]" ([[1972]])
* "[[Souls]]" ([[1982]])

=== Interviews ===

* Interviewed by [[Samuel R. Delany]] at [[WisCon 30]] (2006)

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Joanna Russ

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Joanna Russ (born 22 February 1937), American writer, pioneer of feminist science fiction, essayist.

== Bibliography ==

=== Novels ===
* ''[[Picnic on Paradise]]'' ([[1968]])
* ''[[And Chaos Died]]'' ([[1970]])
* ''[[The Female Man]]'' ([[1975]])
* ''[[We Who Are About To...]]'' ([[1977]])
* ''[[Kittatinny: A Tale of Magic]]'' ([[1978]])
* ''[[The Two of Them]]'' ([[1978]])
* ''[[On Strike Against God]]'' ([[1980]])

=== Collections ===
* ''[[The Adventures of Alyx]]'' ([[1976]])
* ''[[The Zanzibar Cat]]'' ([[1983]])
* ''[[Extra(Ordinary) People]]'' ([[1985]])
* ''[[The Hidden Side of the Moon]]'' ([[1987]])

=== Nonfiction ===
* "[[The Image of Women in Science Fiction]]" ([[1971]])
* ''[[How to Suppress Women's Writing]]'' ([[1983]])
* ''[[Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts: Feminist Essays]]'' ([[1985]])
* ''[[To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction]]'' ([[1995]])
* ''[[What Are We Fighting For? Sex, Race, Class, and the Future of Feminism]]'' ([[1998]])
* ''[[The Country You Have Never Seen]]'' (forthcoming)

=== Notable Short Stories ===
* "[[The Zanzibar Cat (story)|The Zanzibar Cat]]" ([[1971]])
* "[[When It Changed]]" ([[1972]])
* "[[Souls]]" ([[1982]])

=== Interviews ===

* Interview with [[Samuel R. Delany]] at [[WisCon 30]] (2006)

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[[category:Hugo Award winning authors|Russ, Joanna]]
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Matt Ruff

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Kelly Link

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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'''Ursula Kroeber Le Guin''' (born [[October 21]] [[1929]] in Berkeley, California) is an [[American]] author of [[science fiction]], [[fantasy]], realistic fiction and poetry.

She won four [[Hugo Award]] and three [[Nebula Award]].

== Bibliography ==

=== Novels ===

*''[[Always Coming Home]]'' ([[1985]], Harper & Row)
*''[[The Beginning Place]]'' ([[1980]], Harper & Row; UK title: Threshold)
*''[[City of Illusions]]'' ([[1967]], Ace) [[Ekumen]]
*''[[The Dispossessed|The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia]]'' ([[1974]], Harper & Row) [[Ekumen]]
*''[[The Eye of the Heron]]'' ([[1982]], Victor Gollancz)
*''[[The Farthest Shore]]'' ([[1972]], Atheneum) [[Earthsea]], book 3
*''[[Gifts]]'' ([[2004]], Harcourt) [[Western Shore]], book 1
*''[[The Lathe of Heaven]]'' ([[1971]], Scribner)
*''[[The Left Hand of Darkness]]'' ([[1969]], Ace) [[Ekumen]]
*''[[Malafrena]]'' ([[1979]], Putnam)
*''[[The Other Wind]]'' ([[2001]], Harcourt) [[Earthsea]], book 6
*''[[Planet of Exile]]'' ([[1966]], Ace Double) [[Ekumen]]
*''[[Rocannon's World]]'' ([[1966]], Ace Double) [[Ekumen]]
*''[[Tehanu|Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea]]'' ([[1990]], Atheneum) [[Earthsea]], book 4
*''[[The Telling]]'' ([[2000]], Harcourt) [[Ekumen]]
*''[[The Tombs of Atuan]]'' ([[1971]], Atheneum) [[Earthsea]], book 2
*''[[Very Far Away from Anywhere Else]]'' ([[1976]], Atheneum; UK title: A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else)
*''[[Voices]]'' (forthcoming, [[2006]], Harcourt) [[Western Shore]], book 2
*''[[A Wizard of Earthsea]]'' ([[1968]], Parnassus Press) [[Earthsea]], book 1
*''[[The Word for World Is Forest]]'' ([[1976]], Berkley) [[Ekumen]]

=== Short Story Collections ===
*''[[The Birthday of the World]]'' ([[2002]], HarperCollins) [[Ekumen]]
*''[[Buffalo Gals, and Other Animal Presences]]'' ([[1987]], Capra Press)
*''[[Changing Planes]]'' ([[2003]], Harcourt)
*''[[The Compass Rose]]'' ([[1982]], Harper & Row)
*''[[A Fisherman of the Inland Sea]]'' ([[1994]], HarperPrism) [[Ekumen]]
*''[[Four Ways to Forgiveness]]'' ([[1995]], HarperPrism) [[Ekumen]]
*''[[Orsinian Tales]]'' ([[1976]], Harper & Row)
*''[[Searoad|Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand]]'' ([[1991]], HarperCollins)
*''[[Tales from Earthsea]]'' ([[2001]], Harcourt) [[Earthsea]], book 5
*''[[The Wind's Twelve Quarters]]'' ([[1975]], Harper & Row) [[Earthsea]] and [[Ekumen]]
*''[[Unlocking the Air and Other Stories]]'' ([[1996]], HarperCollins)

=== Children's Books ===
*''[[Catwings]]'' ([[1988]], Orchard)
*''[[Catwings Return]]'' ([[1989]], Orchard)
*''[[The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune]]'' ([[1982]], Cheap Street)
*''[[Fire and Stone]]'' ([[1989]], Atheneum)
*''[[Fish Soup]]'' ([[1992]], Atheneum)
*''[[Jane on her Own]]'' ([[1999]], Orchard)
*''[[Leese Webster]]'' ([[1979]], Atheneum)
*''[[A Ride on the Red Mare's Back]]'' ([[1992]], Orchard)
*''[[Solomon Leviathan's Nine Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World]]'' ([[1984]], Cheap Street)
*''[[Tom Mouse]]'' ([[2002]], Roaring Brook)
*''[[A Visit from Dr. Katz]]'' ([[1988]], Atheneum)
*''[[Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings]]'' ([[1994]], Orchard)

=== Poetry Collections ===
*''[[Going Out with Peacocks]]'' ([[1994]], HarperCollins)
*''[[Hard Words and Other Poems]]'' ([[1981]], Harper & Row)
*''[[No Boats]]'' ([[1991]], Ygor and Buntho Make Books)
*''[[Sixty Odd]]'' ([[1999]], Shambhala)
*''[[Tillai and Tylissos]]'' (with Theodora Kroeber, [[1980]], Red Bull)
*''[[Wild Angels]]'' ([[1974]], Capra)
*''[[Wild Oats and Fireweed]]'' ([[1988]], Harper & Row)

=== Non-Fiction ===
*''[[Dancing at the Edge of the World|Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places]]'' ([[1989]], Grove Press)
*''[[The Language of the Night|The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction]]'' ([[1979]], G.P. Putnam; 1989, Women's Press; 2nd edition published in [[1992]] by HarperCollins)
*''[[Steering the Craft|Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew]]'' ([[1998]], Eight Mountain)
*''[[The Wave in the Mind|The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination]]'' ([[2004]], Shambhala)

=== Translations ===
*''[[Kalpa Imperial]]'' (Angélica Gorodischer, [[2003]], Small Beer Press)
*Lao Tzu: ''[[Tao Te Ching|Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way]]'' ([[1997]], Shambhala)
*Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral (Gabriela Mistral), University of New Mexico Press, 2003)

=== Collaborations ===
*''[[Blue Moon over Thurman Street]]'' (with Roger Dorband, photographer, [[1993]], New Sage)
*[[Music and Poetry of the Kesh]] (with Todd Barton, composer, [[1985]], Valley Productions)
*''[[Rigel Nine]]: An Opera'' (with David Bedford, composer, [[1985]], Charisma)
*''[[The Twins, The Dream]]'' / Las Gemelas, El Sueño (with Diana Bellessi, poet & translator, [[1997]], Arte Público)
*[[Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts]] (with Elinor Armer, composer, [[1996]], Koch)

=== Edited Anthologies ===
*''[[Edges]]'' ([[1980]], Pocket)
*''[[Interfaces]]'' ([[1980]], Ace)
*''[[Nebula Award Stories XI]]'' ([[1977]], Harper & Row)
*''[[The Norton Book of Science Fiction]]'' (with [[Brian Attebery]] & [[Karen Joy Fowler]], [[1993]], Norton)

=== Uncollected Stories and Essays ===
*"Along the River" ([[1993]], Omni Best Science Fiction Three)
*"Earthsea Revisioned" ([[1993]], Green Bay booklet)
*"The Lost Children" ([[1996]], Thirteenth Moon)
*"The Ursula Major Construct: or, A Far Greater Horror Loomed" ([[1973]], Clarion III)
*"The Wild Girls" ([[2002]], Asimov's)

==Adaptations of Works==
*[[The Lathe of Heaven (1980; PBS)]]
*[[The Lathe of Heaven (2002; A&E)]]
*[[Earthsea (2004; Sci-Fi)]]
*[[Tales of Earthsea (Studio Ghibli)]]
*[[The Left Hand of Darkness (1994-95; Lifeline Theater, Chicago, IL)]]

== Intertextual References ==

Le Guin's [[ansible]] technology (from the [[Ekumen]] universe) has been referenced in [[Orson Scott Card]]'s [[Ender's Game]].

== External Links ==

*(en) [http://www.ursulakleguin.com Her Site]
*(it) [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin Her page in Italian Wikipedia.org]

== Categories ==

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[[category:Nebula Award winning authors|Le Guin, Ursula K.]]
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Elizabeth Hand

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==Bibliography==

* ''Bibliomancy''

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Joe Haldeman

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Theodore Roszak

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M. John Harrison

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Geoff Ryman

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Johanna Sinisalo

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Nancy Springer

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Maureen F. McHugh

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== Bibliography ==

=== Novels ===

*''[[China Mountain Zhang]]'' ([[1992]])
*''[[Half the Day Is Night]]'' ([[1994]])
*''[[Mission Child]]'' ([[1998]])
*''[[Nekropolis]]'' ([[2001]])

=== Short Story Collections ===

*''[[Mothers and Other Monsters]]'' ([[2005]])

== External Links ==

[http://my.en.com/~mcq/ Maureen McHugh's Web Site]

[[category:1959 Births|McHugh, Maureen F.]]
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Gwyneth Jones

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== Bibliography ==

=== Science Fiction Novels ===
'''Divine Endurance Series'''
*''[[Divine Endurance (novel)|Divine Endurance]]'' ([[1984]])
*''[[Flower Dust (novel)|Flower Dust]]'' ([[1993]])

'''Aleutian Series'''
*''[[White Queen (novel)|White Queen]]'' ([[1991]], co-winner of the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award|Tiptree Award]])
*''[[North Wind (novel)|North Wind]]'' ([[1994]], shortlisted for the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award|Tiptree Award]])
*''[[Phoenix Café (novel)|Phoenix Café]]'' ([[1997]])

'''Bold as Love Series'''
*''[[Bold as Love (novel)|Bold as Love]]'' ([[2001]], winner of the [[Arthur C. Clarke Award]])
*''[[Castles Made of Sand (novel)|Castles Made of Sand]]'' ([[2002]])
*''[[Midnight Lamp (novel)|Midnight Lamp]]'' ([[2003]])
*''[[Band of Gypsies (novel)|Band of Gypsies]]'' ([[2005]])
*''[[Rainbow Bridge (novel)|Rainbow Bridge]]'' ([[2006]])

'''Standalone Novels'''
*''[[Escape Plans (novel)|Escape Plans]]'' ([[1986]])
*''[[Kairos (novel)|Kairos]]'' ([[1995]])
*''[[Life (novel)|Life]]'' ([[2004]], winner of the [[Philip K. Dick Award]], shortlisted for the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award|Tiptree Award]])

=== Children's Books===
'''Inland Series'''
*''[[The Daymaker]]'' ([[1987]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[Transformations]]'' ([[1988]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[The Skybreaker]]'' ([[1990]], as Ann Halam)

'''Standalone Novels'''
*''[[Water in the Air]]'' ([[1977]])
*''[[The Influence of Ironwood]]'' ([[1978]])
*''[[The Exchange]]'' ([[1979]])
*''[[Dear Hill]]'' ([[1980]])
*''[[Ally, Ally, Aster]]'' ([[1981]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[The Alder Tree]]'' ([[1982]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[King Death's Garden]]'' ([[1986]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[The Hidden Ones]]'' ([[1988]])
*''[[Dinosaur Junction]]'' ([[1991]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[The Haunting of Jessica Raven]]'' ([[1993]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[The Fear Man]]'' ([[1995]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[The Powerhouse]]'' ([[1997]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[Crying in the Dark]]'' ([[1998]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[The N.I.M.R.O.D. Conspiracy]]'' ([[1999]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[The Shadow on the Stairs]]'' ([[2000]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[Don't Open Your Eyes]]'' ([[2000]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[Taylor Five]]'' ([[2002]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[Dr. Franklin's Island]]'' ([[2003]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[Finders Keepers]]'' ([[2004]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[Siberia (novel)|Siberia]]'' ([[2005]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[The Visitor]]'' ([[2006]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[Snakehead]]'' ([[2006]], as Ann Halam)

=== Story Collections ===
*''[[Identifying the Object]]'' ([[1993]])
*''[[Seven Tales and a Fable]]'' ([[1995]], winner of the [[World Fantasy Award]])

=== Essay Collections ===
*''[[Deconstructing the Starships]]'' ([[1999]])

== Quotes ==

* "I often awarded my Aleutians quirks of taste and opinion belonging to one uniquely different middle-aged, middle-class, leftish Englishwoman. And I was entertained to find them hailed by US critics as 'the most convincingly alien beings to grace science fiction in years.'" Quoted in [[Decoding Gender in Science Fiction]] by [[Brian Attebery]]

== External Links ==
* [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gwynethann/ Gwyneth Jones Web Site]
* [http://blog.boldaslove.co.uk/ Bold as Love, Gwyneth Jones' blog]

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Candas Jane Dorsey

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Nicola Griffith

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Award-winning author of [[Ammonite]] and [[Slow River]]. Editor, with [[Stephen Pagel]], of the [[Bending the Landscape]] trilogy of queer fantasy, SF, and horror (respectively). Two non-SF novels: [[The Blue Place]] and the sequel [[Stay]].

==Biography==

Partner with [[Kelley Eskridge]]

==External Links==
* Nicola Griffith's website, at http://nicolagriffith.com/
* The Nicola Griffith Mailing List, at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nicolagriffith/

[[category:Tiptree Award Winning Authors|Griffith, Nicola]]

Mary Doria Russell

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John Kessel

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Suzy McKee Charnas

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'''Suzy McKee Charnas''' (born [[1939]] in [[New York City]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[novel]]ist and [[short story]] writer, writing primarily in the genres of [[science fiction]] and [[fantasy]]. She has won several awards for her fiction, including the [[Hugo Award]], the [[Nebula Award]] and the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]]. She lives in [[New Mexico]].

== Bibliography ==

=== Novels ===

*''[[Dorothea Dreams]]'' ([[1986]])
*''[[The Kingdom of Kevin Malone]]'' ([[1993]])
*''[[The Ruby Tear]]'' ([[1997]])

=== Series ===

*[[The Holdfast Chronicles]]
**''[[Walk to the End of the World]]'' ([[1974]])
**''[[Motherlines]]'' ([[1978]])
**''[[The Furies]]'' ([[1994]])
**''[[The Conqueror's Child]]'' ([[1999]])

*[[Sorcery Hill]]
**''[[The Bronze King]]'' ([[1985]])
**''[[The Silver Glove]]'' ([[1988]])
**''[[The Golden Thread]]'' ([[1989]])

=== Collections ===

*''[[The Vampire Tapestry]]'' ([[1980]])
*''[[Moonstone and Tiger-Eye]]'' ([[1992]])
*''[[Music of the Night]]'' ([[2001]]) ''ebook''

=== Non-fiction ===

*''[[Strange Seas]]'' ([[2001]]) ''ebook''
*''[[My Father's Ghost]]'' ([[2002]])

=== Notable Short Works ===

*"[[Scorched Supper on New Niger]]" ([[1980]])
*"[[Unicorn Tapestry]]" ([[1980]])
*"[[Listening to Brahms]]" ([[1988]])
*"[[Boobs (short story)|Boobs]]" ([[1989]])

== External links ==

* [http://www.suzymckeecharnas.com/ The web site of Suzy McKee Charnas.]

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Raphael Carter

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The Kappa Child

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The 2001 [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award|Tiptree Award]] winning novel by [[Hiromi Goto]]. Also nominated for the [[Sunburst Award]].

[[category:2001 Publications|Kappa Child, The]]
[[category:Tiptree Award Winning Fiction|Kappa Child, The]]

The Kappa Child

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Magic or Madness Trilogy

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Series by [[Justine Larbalestier]].

[[category:Series]]

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (collection)

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Collection of short stories by [[James Tiptree, Jr.]].

[[category:1990 Publications]]
[[category:Collections]]

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that anyone can edit</div>
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<center><big><big><big>a secret conspiracy</big></big></big>
</center>

Current highlighted projects:
* [[Black Warrior Woman]]
* [[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

* 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!
* 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]]

Main Page

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Welcome to the<BR />feministSF wiki (fsfwiki)</h1>
<div style="top: +0.2em; font-size: 95%">A collective knowledge base<BR />of all things feminist, fictional, and speculative ... <BR />
that anyone can edit</div>
<div id="articlecount" style="width:100%;text-align:center;font-size:85%;">[[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles available.</div>
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|style="width:15%;font-size:95%"|
*[[:Category:About|About]]
*[[:Category:Awards|Awards]]
*[[:Category:Events|Events]]
|style="width:15%;font-size:95%;color:#000"|
*[[:Category:Organizations & Communities|Groups]]
*[[:Category:People|People]]
*[[:Category:Scholarship|Scholarship]]
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*[[Timeline|Timeline]]
*[[:Category:Works|Works]]
*[[:Category:Writers|Writers]]
|}

<center><big><big><big>a secret conspiracy</big></big></big>
</center>

Current highlighted projects:
* [[Black Warrior Woman]]
* [[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

* 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!
* look at the [[Special:Recent changes|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]]

Initials

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'''Initials''' are sometimes used to disguise the names of female authors, which, by neutralising their gender, can allow them to [[passing|pass]] for male and obtain the attention awarded by male high-status, whether intentionally, incidentally (if they have a different reason for using initials), or at the demand of their publishers.

=== Authors who have used initials ===
* [[E.M. Broner]]
* [[C.J. Cherryh]]
* [[L. Timmel Duchamp]]
* [[M.J. Engh]]
* [[P.C. Hodgell]]
* [[J. Hunter Holly]]
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], for "[[Nine Lives]]" ("U.K. Le Guin")
* [[C.L. Moore]]
* [[E. Nesbit]]
* [[J.K. Rowling]]
* [[M.K. Wren]]

[[category:Business of SF]]
[[category:Names & Naming]]

Initials

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'''Initials''' are sometimes used to disguise the names of female authors, which, by neutralising their gender, can allow them to [[passing|pass]] for male and obtain the attention awarded by male high-status, whether intentionally, incidentally (if they have a different reason for using initials), or at the demand of their publishers.

=== Authors who have used initials ===
* [[E.M. Broner]]
* [[C.J. Cherryh]]
* [[L. Timmel Duchamp]]
* [[M.J. Engh]]
* [[P.C. Hodgell]]
* [[J. Hunter Holly]]
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], for "[[Nine Lives]]"
* [[C.L. Moore]]
* [[E. Nesbit]]
* [[J.K. Rowling]]
* [[M.K. Wren]]

[[category:Business of SF]]
[[category:Names & Naming]]

Talk:Joss Whedon

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I am *not* trying to collect only the (relatively) few materials that critique Joss. This is horribly unbalanced right now! We need a lot more of the pro-Joss materials. LQ (with irony noted later)

: Perish the thought! *eyeroll* Oh, this horrible idea that we might not render unto Joss, etc. smacks of obeisance anxiety. The man's feminism is not going to free any one of us if we live in deference to it. Sheesh! (Psst, you forgot to sign your comment.) --[[User:Ide Cyan|Ide Cyan]] 01:32, 14 July 2006 (PDT)

Goddess worship in SF

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* Anthony, Patricia. "Two-Bag Goddess" in Eating Memories
* Kim Antieau. ''[[The Jigsaw Woman]''

* Gael Baudino - much of her work
* Marion Zimmer Bradley. The Renunciates: Free Amazons trilogy of the Darkover series
* [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]. ''[[The Mists of Avalon]]''

* Elizabeth Hand's ''[[Waking the Moon]]''

* Marie Jakober. ''[[The Black Chalice]]'' (2000) - about the coming of patriarchal religion displacing goddess worship / paganism
* [[Marie Jakober]]. ''[[High Kamilan]]'' (aka ''[[Even the Stones]]'')

* Mary J. Jones. ''[[Avalon]]'' (Naiad, 1991)

* Clysta Kinstler. ''[[The Moon Under Her Feet]]'' (1988) - retelling of the myth of Jesus, from the perspective of Mari the Magdalene ...

* Rachel Pollack. ''[[Godmother Night]]''.

* Starhawk. ''[[The Fifth Sacred Thing]]''

==Related==

See
* [[:Category:Mythological Female Characters|Mythological Female Characters]]
* [[Women's vs. Men's Magic/Technology/Skills]]

[[category:Reading & Media Lists]]

Goddess worship in SF

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==Related==

See
* [[:Category:Mythological Female Characters|Mythological Female Characters]]
* [[Women's vs. Men's Magic/Technology/Skills]]

[[category:Reading & Media Lists]]

Goddess worship in SF

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==Related==

See
* [[Mythological Female Characters]]
*

[[category:Reading & Media Lists]]

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 ...

* 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.

* [[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.

* [[Élizabeth Vonarburg]]'s In the Mother's Country

* [[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.

* [[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

2006-07-14T12:10:24Z

24.218.198.113: /* 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 ...

* 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.

* [[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.

* [[Élizabeth Vonarburg]]'s In the Mother's Country

* [[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.

* [[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

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Prophecies relating to women

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* [[The Books of Great Alta]] by [[Jane Yolen]]
* The prophecy in [[Return of the King]] by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], that the Witch-King would never die by the hand of man--which meant of course that a woman could slay him.

''see also [[Mythological Female Characters]]

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Asherah

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A Mesopotamian/Semitic goddess.
Possibly related to or confused with [[Astarte]]; Asherah or Astarte was described as the "queen of heaven" in Jeremiah.

==Representations in Modern Fiction==

* Neal Stephenson, ''Snow Crash''
* Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel universe, in ''Kushiel's Chosen''

[[category:Mythological Female Characters]]

Talk:Joss Whedon

2006-07-14T11:52:08Z

24.218.198.113: must ... communicate ... humor/irony ... overtly.

I am *not* trying to collect only the (relatively) few materials that critique Joss. This is horribly unbalanced right now! We need a lot more of the pro-Joss materials. LQ (with irony)

: Perish the thought! *eyeroll* Oh, this horrible idea that we might not render unto Joss, etc. smacks of obeisance anxiety. The man's feminism is not going to free any one of us if we live in deference to it. Sheesh! (Psst, you forgot to sign your comment.) --[[User:Ide Cyan|Ide Cyan]] 01:32, 14 July 2006 (PDT)

Talk:Joss Whedon

2006-07-14T11:25:32Z

24.218.198.113: added sig

I am *not* trying to collect only the (relatively) few materials that critique Joss. This is horribly unbalanced right now! We need a lot more of the pro-Joss materials. LQ

: Perish the thought! *eyeroll* Oh, this horrible idea that we might not render unto Joss, etc. smacks of obeisance anxiety. The man's feminism is not going to free any one of us if we live in deference to it. Sheesh! (Psst, you forgot to sign your comment.) --[[User:Ide Cyan|Ide Cyan]] 01:32, 14 July 2006 (PDT)

Race and feminist SF

2006-07-11T18:42:47Z

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Black warrior woman stereotype

2006-07-11T14:06:53Z

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A number of notable SF works have portrayed strong, warrior-like women of African heritage. While we can celebrate the growth in images of strong, active, women of color, it is not an unproblematic choice. We can interrogate how much the characters generally, and whether some characters in particular, rely on racial stereotypes or race-based ideologies in drawing the character.

For instance, a female warrior character may be described as Black or African in order to make her appear even ''more'' extreme than a female warrior, relying on stereotyped views of Africans and Black people as primitive, violent, highly athleticized, and so on.

Likewise, an African or Black character may be turned into more of a warrior woman figure, again out of (or playing on) the sense that Black people are inherently violent or physically strong.

Questions of exoticism, eroticism, the male gaze, and the "white gaze" may also be raised. Are white male authors particularly prone to making Black women characters also warriors, or female warriors also Black? If so, what does that mean-- are they doing it because they have more privilege to stretch readers' and publishers' boundaries, or are they doing it out of their own racism or as a form of cultural appropriation? When does it matter what the author's motivations are?

And are these characters disproportionately lesbian? (not that there's anything wrong with that.) Writer choices to make a Black woman warrior also a lesbian may be a means of exoticizing them, making them seem ''more'' "other", more fearsome, or even more readily identifiable-with by the male reader/viewer.

Comparing the images of warrior women across ethnicity, culture, and race could lead to some fruitful insights.

On the other hand, a kick-ass woman of color is to be welcomed in a very friendly fashion.

==Relevant Works & Characters==
* ''[[Blake's 7]]'' (created by [[Terry Nation]]): [[Dayna Mellanby|Dayna]]
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' (1997-2003) (created by [[Joss Whedon]]) - [[Kendra]] played by Bianca Lawson
* "[[Conan the Destroyer]]" (1984) (dir. Richard Fleischer) - [[Zula]] played by [[Grace Jones]]
* ''[[Firefly]]'' & ''[[Serenity]]'' (2002; 2005) (created by [[Joss Whedon]]) - [[Zoe Alleyne|Zoe]] played by Gina Torres
* "[[Strange Days]]" (1995) (dir. [[Kathryn Bigelow]]) - [[Lornette 'Mace' Mason|Mace]] played by [[Angela Bassett]]
* "[[Sin City]]" (2005) (dir. Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino) - Gail played by Rosario Dawson
* ''[[Neverwhere]]'' (1996) (TV mini-series created by [[Neil Gaiman]]) - Hunter played by Tania Moodie

* ''[[Matadora]]'' by [[Steve Perry]] - [[Dirisha Zuri]] (lesbian/bisexual)
* Nantucket Series by [[S. M. Stirling]] - Coast Guard Captain [[Marian Alston]] (lesbian)
* ''[[Tales of Nevèrÿon]]'', by [[Samuel R. Delany]] - Raven
* Gaia Trilogy ([[Titan]], [[Demon]], [[Wizard]]) by [[John Varley]] - [[Cirocco Jones]] (bisexual)

* [[Veronna]] (DC Comics) (created by [[Beau Smith]])
* [[The X-Men]] - Ororo Munro, a.k.a. [[Storm (X-Men Character)|Storm]]
* ''[[Y the Last Man]]'' (created by [[Brian K. Vaughn]]) - [[Agent 355]]

[[category:Reading & Media Lists]] [[category:Types of Female Characters]]

Black warrior woman stereotype

2006-07-11T14:06:16Z

24.218.198.113: /* Relevant Works & Characters */

A number of notable SF works have portrayed strong, warrior-like women of African heritage. While we can celebrate the growth in images of strong, active, women of color, it is not an unproblematic choice. We can interrogate how much the characters generally, and whether some characters in particular, rely on racial stereotypes or race-based ideologies in drawing the character.

For instance, a female warrior character may be described as Black or African in order to make her appear even ''more'' extreme than a female warrior, relying on stereotyped views of Africans and Black people as primitive, violent, highly athleticized, and so on.

Likewise, an African or Black character may be turned into more of a warrior woman figure, again out of (or playing on) the sense that Black people are inherently violent or physically strong.

Questions of exoticism, eroticism, the male gaze, and the "white gaze" may also be raised. Are white male authors particularly prone to making Black women characters also warriors, or female warriors also Black? If so, what does that mean-- are they doing it because they have more privilege to stretch readers' and publishers' boundaries, or are they doing it out of their own racism or as a form of cultural appropriation? When does it matter what the author's motivations are?

And are these characters disproportionately lesbian? (not that there's anything wrong with that.) Writer choices to make a Black woman warrior also a lesbian may be a means of exoticizing them, making them seem ''more'' "other", more fearsome, or even more readily identifiable-with by the male reader/viewer.

Comparing the images of warrior women across ethnicity, culture, and race could lead to some fruitful insights.

On the other hand, a kick-ass woman of color is to be welcomed in a very friendly fashion.

==Relevant Works & Characters==
* ''[[Blake's 7]]'' (created by [[Terry Nation]]): [[Dayna Mellanby|Dayna]]
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' (1997-2003) (created by [[Joss Whedon]]) - [[Kendra]] played by Bianca Lawson
* "[[Conan the Destroyer]]" (1984) (dir. Richard Fleischer) - [[Zula]] played by [[Grace Jones]]
* ''[[Firefly]]'' & ''[[Serenity]]'' (2002; 2005) (created by [[Joss Whedon]]) - [[Zoe Alleyne|Zoe]] played by Gina Torres
* "[[Strange Days]]" (1995) (dir. [[Kathryn Bigelow]]) - [[Lornette 'Mace' Mason|Mace]] played by [[Angela Bassett]]
* "[[Sin City]]" (2005) (dir. Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino) - Gail played by Rosario Dawson
* ''[[Neverwhere]]'' (1996) (TV mini-series created by [[Neil Gaiman]]) - Hunter played by Tania Moodie

* ''[[Matadora]]'' by [[Steve Perry]] - [[Dirisha Zuri]] (lesbian/bisexual)
* Nantucket Series by [[S. M. Stirling]] - Coast Guard Captain [[Marian Alston]] (lesbian)
* ''[[Tales of Nevèrÿon]]'', by [[Samuel R. Delany]] - Raven
* Gaia Trilogy ([[Titan]], [[Demon]], [[Wizard]]) by [[John Varley]] - [[Cirocco Jones]] (bisexual)

* [[Veronna]] (DC Comics) (created by [[Beau Smith]])
* [[The X-Men]] - Ororo Munro, a.k.a. [[Storm (X-Men Character)|Storm]]
* ''[[Y the Last Man]]'' (created by [[Brian K. Vaughn]]) - Agent 355

[[category:Reading & Media Lists]] [[category:Types of Female Characters]]

Black warrior woman stereotype

2006-07-11T14:05:27Z

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A number of notable SF works have portrayed strong, warrior-like women of African heritage. While we can celebrate the growth in images of strong, active, women of color, it is not an unproblematic choice. We can interrogate how much the characters generally, and whether some characters in particular, rely on racial stereotypes or race-based ideologies in drawing the character.

For instance, a female warrior character may be described as Black or African in order to make her appear even ''more'' extreme than a female warrior, relying on stereotyped views of Africans and Black people as primitive, violent, highly athleticized, and so on.

Likewise, an African or Black character may be turned into more of a warrior woman figure, again out of (or playing on) the sense that Black people are inherently violent or physically strong.

Questions of exoticism, eroticism, the male gaze, and the "white gaze" may also be raised. Are white male authors particularly prone to making Black women characters also warriors, or female warriors also Black? If so, what does that mean-- are they doing it because they have more privilege to stretch readers' and publishers' boundaries, or are they doing it out of their own racism or as a form of cultural appropriation? When does it matter what the author's motivations are?

And are these characters disproportionately lesbian? (not that there's anything wrong with that.) Writer choices to make a Black woman warrior also a lesbian may be a means of exoticizing them, making them seem ''more'' "other", more fearsome, or even more readily identifiable-with by the male reader/viewer.

Comparing the images of warrior women across ethnicity, culture, and race could lead to some fruitful insights.

On the other hand, a kick-ass woman of color is to be welcomed in a very friendly fashion.

==Relevant Works & Characters==
* ''[[Blake's 7]]'' (created by [[Terry Nation]]): [[Dayna Mellanby|Dayna]]
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' (1997-2003) (created by [[Joss Whedon]]) - [[Kendra]] played by Bianca Lawson
* "[[Conan the Destroyer]]" (1984) (dir. Richard Fleischer) - [[Zula]] played by [[Grace Jones]]
* ''[[Firefly]]'' & ''[[Serenity]]'' (2002; 2005) (created by [[Joss Whedon]]) - [[Zoe Alleyne|Zoe]] played by Gina Torres
* "[[Strange Days]]" (1995) (dir. [[Kathryn Bigelow]]) - [[Lornette 'Mace' Mason|Mace]] played by [[Angela Bassett]]
* "[[Sin City]]" (2005) (dir. Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino) - Gail played by Rosario Dawson
* ''[[Neverwhere]]'' (1996) (TV mini-series created by [[Neil Gaiman]]) - Hunter played by Tania Moodie

* ''[[Matadora]]'' by [[Steve Perry]] - [[Dirisha Zuri]] (lesbian/bisexual)
* Nantucket Series by [[S. M. Stirling]] - (lesbian)
* ''[[Tales of Nevèrÿon]]'', by [[Samuel R. Delany]] - Raven
* Gaia Trilogy ([[Titan]], [[Demon]], [[Wizard]]) by [[John Varley]] - [[Cirocco Jones]] (bisexual)

* [[Veronna]] (DC Comics) (created by [[Beau Smith]])
* [[The X-Men]] - Ororo Munro, a.k.a. [[Storm (X-Men Character)|Storm]]
* ''[[Y the Last Man]]'' (created by [[Brian K. Vaughn]]) - Agent 355

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Black warrior woman stereotype

2006-07-11T14:04:31Z

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A number of notable SF works have portrayed strong, warrior-like women of African heritage. While we can celebrate the growth in images of strong, active, women of color, it is not an unproblematic choice. We can interrogate how much the characters generally, and whether some characters in particular, rely on racial stereotypes or race-based ideologies in drawing the character.

For instance, a female warrior character may be described as Black or African in order to make her appear even ''more'' extreme than a female warrior, relying on stereotyped views of Africans and Black people as primitive, violent, highly athleticized, and so on.

Likewise, an African or Black character may be turned into more of a warrior woman figure, again out of (or playing on) the sense that Black people are inherently violent or physically strong.

Questions of exoticism, eroticism, the male gaze, and the "white gaze" may also be raised. Are white male authors particularly prone to making Black women characters also warriors, or female warriors also Black? If so, what does that mean-- are they doing it because they have more privilege to stretch readers' and publishers' boundaries, or are they doing it out of their own racism or as a form of cultural appropriation? When does it matter what the author's motivations are?

And are these characters disproportionately lesbian? (not that there's anything wrong with that.) Writer choices to make a Black woman warrior also a lesbian may be a means of exoticizing them, making them seem ''more'' "other", more fearsome, or even more readily identifiable-with by the male reader/viewer.

Comparing the images of warrior women across ethnicity, culture, and race could lead to some fruitful insights.

On the other hand, a kick-ass woman of color is to be welcomed in a very friendly fashion.

==Relevant Works & Characters==
* ''[[Blake's 7]]'' (created by [[Terry Nation]]): [[Dayna Mellanby|Dayna]]
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' (1997-2003) (created by [[Joss Whedon]]) - [[Kendra]] played by Bianca Lawson
* "[[Conan the Destroyer]]" (1984) (dir. Richard Fleischer) - [[Zula]] played by [[Grace Jones]]
* ''[[Firefly]]'' & ''[[Serenity]]'' (2002; 2005) (created by [[Joss Whedon]]) - [[Zoe Alleyne|Zoe]] played by Gina Torres
* "[[Strange Days]]" (1995) (dir. [[Kathryn Bigelow]]) - [[Lornette 'Mace' Mason|Mace]] played by [[Angela Bassett]]
* "[[Sin City]]" (2005) (dir. Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino) - Gail played by Rosario Dawson
* ''[[Neverwhere]]'' (1996) (TV mini-series created by [[Neil Gaiman]]) - Hunter played by Tania Moodie

* ''[[Matadora]]'' by [[Steve Perry]] - [[Dirisha Zuri]] (lesbian/bisexual)
* Nantucket Series by [[S. M. Stirling]] - (lesbian)
* ''[[Tales of Nevèrÿon]]'', by [[Samuel R. Delany]] - Raven
* Gaia Trilogy ([[Titan]], [[Demon]], [[Wizard]]) by [[John Varley]] - [[Cirocco Jones]] (bisexual)

* [[Veronna]] (DC Comics) (created by [[Beau Smith]])
* [[The X-Men]] -- ([[Ororo Munro]], a.k.a. [[Storm (X-Men Character)|Storm]])
* ''[[Y the Last Man]]'' (created by [[Brian K. Vaughn]]) - Agent 355

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Black warrior woman stereotype

2006-07-11T13:58:44Z

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A number of notable SF works have portrayed strong, warrior-like women of African heritage. While we can celebrate the growth in images of strong, active, women of color, it is not an unproblematic choice. We can interrogate how much the characters generally, and whether some characters in particular, rely on racial stereotypes or race-based ideologies in drawing the character.

For instance, a female warrior character may be described as Black or African in order to make her appear even ''more'' extreme than a female warrior, relying on stereotyped views of Africans and Black people as primitive, violent, highly athleticized, and so on.

Likewise, an African or Black character may be turned into more of a warrior woman figure, again out of (or playing on) the sense that Black people are inherently violent or physically strong.

Questions of exoticism, eroticism, the male gaze, and the "white gaze" may also be raised. Are white male authors particularly prone to making Black women characters also warriors, or female warriors also Black? If so, what does that mean-- are they doing it because they have more privilege to stretch readers' and publishers' boundaries, or are they doing it out of their own racism or as a form of cultural appropriation? When does it matter what the author's motivations are?

And are these characters disproportionately lesbian? (not that there's anything wrong with that.) Writer choices to make a Black woman warrior also a lesbian may be a means of exoticizing them, making them seem ''more'' "other", more fearsome, or even more readily identifiable-with by the male reader/viewer.

Comparing the images of warrior women across ethnicity, culture, and race could lead to some fruitful insights.

On the other hand, a kick-ass woman of color is to be welcomed in a very friendly fashion.

==Relevant Works & Characters==
* ''[[Blake's 7]]'' (created by [[Terry Nation]]): [[Dayna Mellanby|Dayna]]
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' (created by [[Joss Whedon]]) - [[Kendra]]
* "[[Conan the Destroyer]]" (dir. Richard Fleischer) - Zula played by [[Grace Jones]]
* ''[[Firefly]]'' (created by [[Joss Whedon]]) - Zoe
* "[[Strange Days]]" (dir. [[Kathryn Bigelow]]) - Mace played by [[Angela Bassett]]
* "[[Sin City]]" (dir. Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino) - Gail played by Rosario Dawson
* ''[[Neverwhere]]'' (TV series created by [[Neil Gaiman]]) - Hunter

* ''[[Matadora]]'' by [[Steve Perry]] - [[Dirisha Zuri]] (lesbian/bisexual)
* Nantucket Series by [[S. M. Stirling]] - (lesbian)
* ''[[Tales of Nevèrÿon]]'', by [[Samuel R. Delany]] - Raven
* Gaia Trilogy ([[Titan]], [[Demon]], [[Wizard]]) by [[John Varley]] - [[Cirocco Jones]] (bisexual)

* [[Veronna]] (DC Comics) (created by [[Beau Smith]])
* [[The X-Men]] -- ([[Ororo Munro]], a.k.a. [[Storm (X-Men Character)|Storm]])
* ''[[Y the Last Man]]'' (created by [[Brian K. Vaughn]]) - Agent 355

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Talk:FSFblog communication guidelines

2006-07-10T03:29:49Z

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'''Feminist''' guidelines should relate to THIS forum, not to "any and all forums, on any and all topics, among any and all people." Sheesh. Universal standards won't frelling WORK in a situation of political inequality, so I scrapped that series of qualifiers and put in a Very Important Caveat. --[[User:Ide Cyan|Ide Cyan]] 19:27, 9 July 2006 (PDT)

Don't you *want* feminists & feminist values to take over everything? grin -- Seriously, I didn't mean to suggest that we should tone down feminism to be applicable to every forum; but rather that feminist analysis and conversation techniques are applicable in every situation. [[User:24.218.198.113|24.218.198.113]] 20:28, 9 July 2006 (PDT) LQ