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Abortion in SF

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SF About Abortion

* [[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)
* [[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)
* Salon.com story
* "Battlestar Galactica" episode

Abortion in SF

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List of female vampires in SF

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==Fiction==
* Anthony, Patricia. "Young Wives" in Eating Memories (crazy old man or dead vampire wife? you decide)

* Bland, Polly. "Julia" in Moonshadows: Fantasies of Love and Magick edited by S. G. Johnson (lesbian vampire)

* Califia, Pat. "The Vampire"
* Codrescu, Andrei. The Blood Countess
* Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Christabel" (1797) (poem; according to Pam Keesey, the first English-language lesbian vampire appearance)
* Collins, Nancy A. Sonya Blue series: Sunglasses After Dark (1989)
: --. In the Blood
: --. Paint It Black
: --. Dead Roses for a Blue Lady
: --. Darkest Heart
* Crozier, Ouida. Shadows After Dark (Vampires from another dimension routinely operate on Earth. Amid the AIDS plague, one vampire (Oupir) falls in love with an earthling.)

* Danaan, Tara. "The Grave's a Fine and Private Place," Sinister Wisdom (Berkeley, Ca.), No. 34 (1988). [lesbian vampire]
* Daniels, Cora Lynn. Sardia: A Story of Love (1891) [lesbian vampire]
* Donnelly, Nisa. The Bar Stories: A Novel After All (1989) [lesbian vampire shows up sometimes]

* Forrest, Katherine V. "O Captain, My Captain" (lesbian vampire spaceship captain doesn't need blood; needs a different bodily fluid) in Dreams and Swords (1987)

* G, Amelia. "Wanting" (lesbian vampire in Blood Kiss)
* Gomez, Jewelle - The Gilda Stories. An Black lesbian vampire. Well, the Black lesbian vampire. Even if there are others, Gilda rules.
* Gotlieb, Sherry. Love Bite
: --. Worse Than Death

* Hamilton, Laurell K. Anita Blake series.
: --. Guilty Pleasures (1993)
: etc.
* Huff, Tanya. Blood Pact.
: --. Blood Debt.
: --. Blood Lines.
: --. Blood Price.
: --. Blood Trail.
: --. Smoke and Shadows (2004)
: --. Smoke and Mirrors (2005)
: --. Smoke and Ashes (2006
: TV series planned.

* Jaivin, Linda. Rock'n'Roll Babes from Outer Space (1998) (Ok, they're aliens not vampires, but they do get up to some lesbo-goth-vampirism.)

* Kaldera, Raven. "Predator" in Sexcrime: An Anthology of Subversive Erotica edited by Cecilia Tan (Circlet Press: 2000) (lesbian SM relationship and a contagious vampirism)

* Lee, Diana. A Taste for Blood (2003) [lesbian vampires historical epic]
* Lee, Tanith. "Nunc Dimittis" in The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror, edited by Charles L. Grant, New York: Dodd, Mead (1983). [vampire female w/ attractive bisexual recruit]
* LeFanu, J. Sheridan. Carmilla (1872) [the classic lesbian vampire story]
* Linssen, John. Tabitha fffoulks: A Love Story About a Reformed Vampire and His Favorite Lady (New York: Arbor, 1978) (lesbian vampire, and others)
* Livia, Anna. Minimax. Like no other lesbian vampire story you may have read.
* Lundoff, Catherine. "El Tigre" (in Best Lesbian Erotica 1999, edited by Tristan Taormino and Chrystos; Cleis Press, 1999) (historical lesbian vampire sm porn)

* Minns, Karen Marie Christa. Bloodsong. Bluestocking Books, Irvine, CA; 1-887237-08-9, April 1997. (lesbian vampire)
: --. Virago (Naiad, 1990) - lesbian couple threatened by a lesbian vampire ...

* Pierce, Meredith Ann. The Darkangel (1992) (YA)
: --. A Gathering of Gargoyles (YA)
: --. The Pearl of the Soul of the World (YA)

Scott, Jody. I, Vampire (1984). (lesbian vampire)

* Tem, Melanie. Desmodus (1995) (matriarchal society of vampires)

* Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn. --. Communion Blood (2000) (Olivia series)
: --. The Angry Angel (1999)
: --. A Candle for D'Artagnan (1994) (Olivia series)
: --. Crusader's Torch (1988)

* Zora: La Vampira [Italian adult graphic novel]

===Anthologies===

* [[Pam Keesey]], editor. Dark Angels: Lesbian Vampire Stories
* [[Pam Keesey]], editor. Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories

==Movies==
* "Vampyr" (1932; based on LeFanu's Carmilla)
* "Dracula's Daughter" (1936; Lambert Hillyer dir.)
* "Blood of Dracula" (1957; Herbert L. Strock, dir.)
* "Lust for a Vampire" (1957; Riccardo Freda, dir.)
* "Blood and Roses" [Et mourir de plaisir] (1960/61; based on LeFanu's Carmilla) (Roger Vadim; writing by Claude Brulé starring Annette Vadim as Carmilla. French. USA release had at least 13 minutes cut.)
* "Castle of Blood" (1963; Anthony Dawson, Antonio Margheriti, dir.)
* "The Vampire of the Opera" (1964; dir. Renato Polselli) (female vampire)
* "Terror in the Crypt" [La Maldición de los Karnstein] (1964; based on LeFanu's Carmilla; dir. by Camilla Mastrocinque; starring Christopher Lee). Italian; as usual the USA release cut time.
* "Queen of the Vampires" (1967; dir. Jean Rollin, Jacqueline Sieger) [edited version released as "Le Viol de Vampire" or "Rape of the Vampire"]
* "Vampyros Lesbos" ["Las Vampiras"] (1970/71) (s0ft-c0re lesbian vampires) (dir. Jesus Franco; German)
* "The Vampire Lovers" (1970, 72) (based on LeFanu's Carmilla; dir. Roy Ward Baker; starring Ingrid Pitt as Carmilla, seducing Madeleine Smith and Kate O'Mara)
* "Countess Dracula" (1970) (Peter Sasdy, dir.; Jeremy Paul, scriptwriter; starring Ingrid Pitt as an Erzebeth Bathory-type person)
* "Le Frisson Des Vampires" (1970; dir. Jean Rollins)
* "Velvet Vampire" (1971; dir. Stephanie Rothman)
* "Lust for a Vampire" (1971; Jimmy Sangster, dir.) (English lesbian vampire)
* "Curse of the Vampire" (1971; Jose Elorieta, dir.)
* "Daughters of Darkness" (1970/71; Harry Kümel; starring Delphine Seyrig as Countess Elizabeth Bathory; lesbian erotic horror)
* "Blood Splattered Bride" (1972; dir. Vincente Aranda) (a woman seduced by a female vampire)
* "Requiem for a Vampire" (1972; dir. Jean Rollin)
* "Twins of Evil" (1972; dir. John Hough) (twin quasi-lesbian vampires; starring Madeleine & Mary Collinson)
" "Daughter of Dracula" (1972; dir. Jess Franco)
" "Female Vampire" (1973) (dir. Jess Franco; starring Lina Romay)
* "Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural" (1973; dir. Richard Blackburn)
* "Veil of Blood" ["Der Fluch der schwarzen Schwestern"] (1973) reissued as "Vampire Ecstasy" (~1999) (Dir. Joseph W. Sarno; starring Nadia Henkowa as a lesbian vampire)
* "Immoral Tales" (1974; dir. Walerian Borowczyk; one of four stories is about Countess Bathory)
* "Vampyres" (Joseé Ramón Larraz; 1974; starring Marianne Morris and Anulka as vampire ghosts of lesbian lovers. Released on film with cuts; released by Anchor Bay with censors intact; and released by Blue Underground in 2002 on DVD with original footage restored.)
* "The Bride's Initiation" (1975; dir. Duncan Stewart) (vampire seduces newlyweds)
* "Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary" (1976; Juan Lopez, dir.)
* "The Hunger" (1983; dir. Tony Scott; starring Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon, and David Bowie)
* "Once Bitten" (1985; dir. Howard Storm)
* "The Mark of Lilith" (1986; dir. Bruna Fionda, Polly Gladwin, Isiling Mack-Nataf)
* "Princess of Darkness" (1987)
* "Vampire Ecstasy" (1988; dir. Joseph W. Sarno)
* "Lair of the White Worm" (1988; dir. Ken Russell; starring Hugh Grant among others; the woman is not strictly a vampire)
* "Mama Dracula" (1988; dir. Boris Szulzinger)
* "Because the Dawn" (1988; dir. Amy Goldstein) (relationship between a female vampire and a photographer)
* "Beverly Hills Vamp" (1988; Dir. Fred Olen Ray) (female vampire)
* "Carmilla" (1990; dir. by Gabrielle Beaumont)
* "Cunt Dykula" (1993; dir. by Lisa Kuhne; 5-minute lesbian safe sex PSA)
* "Embrace of the Vampire" (1994; Anne Goursaud, dir.) (transgender vampire)
* "Interview with a Vamp" (1994; dir. Justin Case; lesbian vampire p0rn)
* "Chickula: Teenage vampire" (1995; dir. Angela Robinson) (lesbian vampire)
* "Nadja" (1995; dir. Michael Almereyda) (lesbian vampire)
* "Red Lips" (1995; dir. Donald Farmer)
* "The Addiction" (1996) (dir. Abel Ferrara; stars Lili Taylor)
* "Caress of the Vampire" (1996; dir. Frank Terranova) (lesbian vampire)
* "Vampire Fantasies" (1997; lesbian vampire p0rn)
* "Vampire Lust" (1997; woman cop chases lesbian vampire)
* "Caress of the Vampire 2: Teenage Ghoul Girl-a-Go-Go" (1997; dir. Bill Hellfire. ?? described as "a tongue-in-cheek look at lesbian vampire cinema" at queer horror)
* "A Religious Experience" (1997; dir. by Karla Carmony, Amy Boyd, Margo Dean) (lesbian couple battle vampires)
* "Club Vampire" (1998; dir. Andy Ruben)
* "Vampire Lovers" (1998; lesbian vampire p0rn)
* "Lesbian Vampire Sex and B0ndage" (1998; lesbian vampire p0rn)
* "Ironbound Vampire" (1998; dir. Karl Petry)
* "Razor Blade Smile" (UK, 1998) (dir. Jake West; starring Eileen Daly)
* "Caress of the Vampire 3: Lust of the Nightstalker" (1999; dir. Mario Cimadavilla)
* "The Velocity of Gary (Not His Real Name)" (1999; dir. Dan Ireland)
* "VamBIres" (1999; dir. by Karen Dior) (vampire p0rn)
* "TITanic 2000" (1999; dir. John P. Fedele) (lesbian vampire p0rn)
* "Mistress of Seduction" (1999; dir. Michele Pacitto)
* "Hot Vampire Nights" (2000; dir. Will Danahur)

==References==
* ''[[Vampires and Violets]]''
* http://queerhorror.com

List of female vampires in SF

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==Fiction==
* Anthony, Patricia. "Young Wives" in Eating Memories (crazy old man or dead vampire wife? you decide)

* Bland, Polly. "Julia" in Moonshadows: Fantasies of Love and Magick edited by S. G. Johnson (lesbian vampire)

* Califia, Pat. "The Vampire"
* Codrescu, Andrei. The Blood Countess
* Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Christabel" (1797) (poem; according to Pam Keesey, the first English-language lesbian vampire appearance)
* Collins, Nancy A. Sonya Blue series: Sunglasses After Dark (1989)
: --. In the Blood
: --. Paint It Black
: --. Dead Roses for a Blue Lady
: --. Darkest Heart
* Crozier, Ouida. Shadows After Dark (Vampires from another dimension routinely operate on Earth. Amid the AIDS plague, one vampire (Oupir) falls in love with an earthling.)

* Danaan, Tara. "The Grave's a Fine and Private Place," Sinister Wisdom (Berkeley, Ca.), No. 34 (1988). [lesbian vampire]
* Daniels, Cora Lynn. Sardia: A Story of Love (1891) [lesbian vampire]
* Donnelly, Nisa. The Bar Stories: A Novel After All (1989) [lesbian vampire shows up sometimes]

* Forrest, Katherine V. "O Captain, My Captain" (lesbian vampire spaceship captain doesn't need blood; needs a different bodily fluid) in Dreams and Swords (1987)

* G, Amelia. "Wanting" (lesbian vampire in Blood Kiss)
* Gomez, Jewelle - The Gilda Stories. An Black lesbian vampire. Well, the Black lesbian vampire. Even if there are others, Gilda rules.
* Gotlieb, Sherry. Love Bite
: --. Worse Than Death

* Hamilton, Laurell K. Anita Blake series.
: --. Guilty Pleasures (1993)
: etc.
* Huff, Tanya. Blood Pact.
: --. Blood Debt.
: --. Blood Lines.
: --. Blood Price.
: --. Blood Trail.
: --. Smoke and Shadows (2004)
: --. Smoke and Mirrors (2005)
: --. Smoke and Ashes (2006
: TV series planned.

* Jaivin, Linda. Rock'n'Roll Babes from Outer Space (1998) (Ok, they're aliens not vampires, but they do get up to some lesbo-goth-vampirism.)

* Kaldera, Raven. "Predator" in Sexcrime: An Anthology of Subversive Erotica edited by Cecilia Tan (Circlet Press: 2000) (lesbian SM relationship and a contagious vampirism)

* Lee, Diana. A Taste for Blood (2003) [lesbian vampires historical epic]
* Lee, Tanith. "Nunc Dimittis" in The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror, edited by Charles L. Grant, New York: Dodd, Mead (1983). [vampire female w/ attractive bisexual recruit]
* LeFanu, J. Sheridan. Carmilla (1872) [the classic lesbian vampire story]
* Linssen, John. Tabitha fffoulks: A Love Story About a Reformed Vampire and His Favorite Lady (New York: Arbor, 1978) (lesbian vampire, and others)
* Livia, Anna. Minimax. Like no other lesbian vampire story you may have read.
* Lundoff, Catherine. "El Tigre" (in Best Lesbian Erotica 1999, edited by Tristan Taormino and Chrystos; Cleis Press, 1999) (historical lesbian vampire sm porn)

* Minns, Karen Marie Christa. Bloodsong. Bluestocking Books, Irvine, CA; 1-887237-08-9, April 1997. (lesbian vampire)
: --. Virago (Naiad, 1990) - lesbian couple threatened by a lesbian vampire ...

* Pierce, Meredith Ann. The Darkangel (1992) (YA)
: --. A Gathering of Gargoyles (YA)
: --. The Pearl of the Soul of the World (YA)

Scott, Jody. I, Vampire (1984). (lesbian vampire)

* Tem, Melanie. Desmodus (1995) (matriarchal society of vampires)

* Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn. --. Communion Blood (2000) (Olivia series)
: --. The Angry Angel (1999)
: --. A Candle for D'Artagnan (1994) (Olivia series)
: --. Crusader's Torch (1988)

* Zora: La Vampira [Italian adult graphic novel]

===Anthologies===

* [[Pam Keesey]], editor. Dark Angels: Lesbian Vampire Stories
* [[Pam Keesey]], editor. Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories

==Movies==
"Vampyr" (1932; based on LeFanu's Carmilla)
"Dracula's Daughter" (1936; Lambert Hillyer dir.)
"Blood of Dracula" (1957; Herbert L. Strock, dir.)
"Lust for a Vampire" (1957; Riccardo Freda, dir.)
"Blood and Roses" [Et mourir de plaisir] (1960/61; based on LeFanu's Carmilla) (Roger Vadim; writing by Claude Brulé starring Annette Vadim as Carmilla. French. USA release had at least 13 minutes cut.)
"Castle of Blood" (1963; Anthony Dawson, Antonio Margheriti, dir.)
"The Vampire of the Opera" (1964; dir. Renato Polselli) (female vampire)
"Terror in the Crypt" [La Maldición de los Karnstein] (1964; based on LeFanu's Carmilla; dir. by Camilla Mastrocinque; starring Christopher Lee). Italian; as usual the USA release cut time.
"Queen of the Vampires" (1967; dir. Jean Rollin, Jacqueline Sieger) [edited version released as "Le Viol de Vampire" or "Rape of the Vampire"]
"Vampyros Lesbos" ["Las Vampiras"] (1970/71) (s0ft-c0re lesbian vampires) (dir. Jesus Franco; German)
"The Vampire Lovers" (1970, 72) (based on LeFanu's Carmilla; dir. Roy Ward Baker; starring Ingrid Pitt as Carmilla, seducing Madeleine Smith and Kate O'Mara)
"Countess Dracula" (1970) (Peter Sasdy, dir.; Jeremy Paul, scriptwriter; starring Ingrid Pitt as an Erzebeth Bathory-type person)
"Le Frisson Des Vampires" (1970; dir. Jean Rollins)
"Velvet Vampire" (1971; dir. Stephanie Rothman)
"Lust for a Vampire" (1971; Jimmy Sangster, dir.) (English lesbian vampire)
"Curse of the Vampire" (1971; Jose Elorieta, dir.)
"Daughters of Darkness" (1970/71; Harry Kümel; starring Delphine Seyrig as Countess Elizabeth Bathory; lesbian erotic horror)
"Blood Splattered Bride" (1972; dir. Vincente Aranda) (a woman seduced by a female vampire)
"Requiem for a Vampire" (1972; dir. Jean Rollin)
"Twins of Evil" (1972; dir. John Hough) (twin quasi-lesbian vampires; starring Madeleine & Mary Collinson)
"Daughter of Dracula" (1972; dir. Jess Franco)
"Female Vampire" (1973) (dir. Jess Franco; starring Lina Romay)
"Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural" (1973; dir. Richard Blackburn)
"Veil of Blood" ["Der Fluch der schwarzen Schwestern"] (1973) reissued as "Vampire Ecstasy" (~1999) (Dir. Joseph W. Sarno; starring Nadia Henkowa as a lesbian vampire)
"Immoral Tales" (1974; dir. Walerian Borowczyk; one of four stories is about Countess Bathory)
"Vampyres" (Joseé Ramón Larraz; 1974; starring Marianne Morris and Anulka as vampire ghosts of lesbian lovers. Released on film with cuts; released by Anchor Bay with censors intact; and released by Blue Underground in 2002 on DVD with original footage restored.)
"The Bride's Initiation" (1975; dir. Duncan Stewart) (vampire seduces newlyweds)
"Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary" (1976; Juan Lopez, dir.)
"The Hunger" (1983; dir. Tony Scott; starring Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon, and David Bowie)
"Once Bitten" (1985; dir. Howard Storm)
"The Mark of Lilith" (1986; dir. Bruna Fionda, Polly Gladwin, Isiling Mack-Nataf)
"Princess of Darkness" (1987)
"Vampire Ecstasy" (1988; dir. Joseph W. Sarno)
"Lair of the White Worm" (1988; dir. Ken Russell; starring Hugh Grant among others; the woman is not strictly a vampire)
"Mama Dracula" (1988; dir. Boris Szulzinger)
"Because the Dawn" (1988; dir. Amy Goldstein) (relationship between a female vampire and a photographer)
"Beverly Hills Vamp" (1988; Dir. Fred Olen Ray) (female vampire)
"Carmilla" (1990; dir. by Gabrielle Beaumont)
"Cunt Dykula" (1993; dir. by Lisa Kuhne; 5-minute lesbian safe sex PSA)
"Embrace of the Vampire" (1994; Anne Goursaud, dir.) (transgender vampire)
"Interview with a Vamp" (1994; dir. Justin Case; lesbian vampire p0rn)
"Chickula: Teenage vampire" (1995; dir. Angela Robinson) (lesbian vampire)
"Nadja" (1995; dir. Michael Almereyda) (lesbian vampire)
"Red Lips" (1995; dir. Donald Farmer)
"The Addiction" (1996) (dir. Abel Ferrara; stars Lili Taylor)
"Caress of the Vampire" (1996; dir. Frank Terranova) (lesbian vampire)
"Vampire Fantasies" (1997; lesbian vampire p0rn)
"Vampire Lust" (1997; woman cop chases lesbian vampire)
"Caress of the Vampire 2: Teenage Ghoul Girl-a-Go-Go" (1997; dir. Bill Hellfire. ?? described as "a tongue-in-cheek look at lesbian vampire cinema" at queer horror)
"A Religious Experience" (1997; dir. by Karla Carmony, Amy Boyd, Margo Dean) (lesbian couple battle vampires)
"Club Vampire" (1998; dir. Andy Ruben)
"Vampire Lovers" (1998; lesbian vampire p0rn)
"Lesbian Vampire Sex and B0ndage" (1998; lesbian vampire p0rn)
"Ironbound Vampire" (1998; dir. Karl Petry)
"Razor Blade Smile" (UK, 1998) (dir. Jake West; starring Eileen Daly)
"Caress of the Vampire 3: Lust of the Nightstalker" (1999; dir. Mario Cimadavilla)
"The Velocity of Gary (Not His Real Name)" (1999; dir. Dan Ireland)
"VamBIres" (1999; dir. by Karen Dior) (vampire p0rn)
"TITanic 2000" (1999; dir. John P. Fedele) (lesbian vampire p0rn)
"Mistress of Seduction" (1999; dir. Michele Pacitto)
"Hot Vampire Nights" (2000; dir. Will Danahur)

==References==
* ''[[Vampires and Violets]]''
* http://queerhorror.com

Abortion in SF

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Abortion in SF

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SF About Abortion

* [[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)
* [[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 ... )
* [[Racoona 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)

Menstruation in SF

2006-06-19T05:21:40Z

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Stories Featuring or About Menstruation

* [[Suzy McKee Charnas]]. "[[Boobs]]" (Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine, 1989; Skin of the Soul, ed. Tuttle, 1990; Penguin book of Modern Fantasy by Women, ed. Williams, 1995)
* [[Stephen Dedman]]. "From Whom All Blessings Flow"
* [[Anita Diamant]]. ''[[The Red Tent]]''.
* [[Jan Dickson]]. "Moonshine Quartet." Women (Baltimore, Maryland), v. 5, no. 1 (1976) (lesbian protagonist)
* [[Katherine Forrest]]. "O Captain, My Captain" (1987) (menstrual blood vampire story)
* [[Judy Grahn]]. ''Mundane's World'' (coming-of-age menstruation ritual)
* [[Barb Lakey]] or [[Barb Rausch]]. "Claire de Lune" (Wimmen's Comix #13, Supernatural Issue)
* [[Alan Moore]]. "Swamp Thing" from DC (included a story on fear of menstruation)
* [[Jody Scott]]. ''[[Passing for Human]]'' (alien/vampire menstrual blood)
* [[Jody Scott]]. ''[[I Vampire]]'' (alien/vampire menstrual blood; sequel)
* [[Theodore Sturgeon]]. "Some of Your Blood"
* [[Sheri S. Tepper]]. ''[[The Gate to Women's Country]]'' (in a sexist society, menstruating women are required to place a red flag on their doors)
* [[Connie Willis]]. "[[Even the Queen]]" (satirizes an anti-menstrual women's cycle)

Menstruation in SF

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Stories Featuring or About Menstruation

* [[Suzy McKee Charnas]]. "[[Boobs]]" (Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine, 1989; Skin of the Soul, ed. Tuttle, 1990; Penguin book of Modern Fantasy by Women, ed. Williams, 1995)
* [[Stephen Dedman]]. "From Whom All Blessings Flow"
* [[Anita Diamant]]. '[[The Red Tent]]'.
* [[Jan Dickson]]. "Moonshine Quartet." Women (Baltimore, Maryland), v. 5, no. 1 (1976) [lesbian protagonist]
* [[Katherine Forrest]]. "O Captain, My Captain" (1987) [menstrual blood vampire story]
* [[Judy Grahn]]. 'Mundane's World' (coming-of-age menstruation ritual)
* [[Barb Lakey]] or [[Barb Rausch]]. "Claire de Lune" (Wimmen's Comix #13, Supernatural Issue)
* [[Alan Moore]]. "Swamp Thing" from DC (included a story on fear of menstruation)
* [[Jody Scott]]. '[[Passing for Human]]' (alien/vampire menstrual blood)
* [[Jody Scott]]. '[[I Vampire]]' (alien/vampire menstrual blood; sequel)
* [[Theodore Sturgeon]]. "Some of Your Blood"
* [[Sheri S. Tepper]]. [[The Gate to Women's Country]] [in a sexist society, menstruating women are required to place a red flag on their doors ... menstruation isn't a major theme of the story, but this kind of menstrual signal appears in a lot of sexist societies]
* [[Connie Willis]]. "[[Even the Queen]]" (satirizes an anti-menstrual women's cycle)

Menstruation in SF

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Stories Featuring or About Menstruation

* [[Suzy McKee Charnas]]. "Boobs" (Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine, 1989; Skin of the Soul, ed. Tuttle, 1990; Penguin book of Modern Fantasy by Women, ed. Williams, 1995)
* [[Stephen Dedman]]. "From Whom All Blessings Flow"
* [[Anita Diamant]]. The Red Tent
* [[Jan Dickson]]. "Moonshine Quartet." Women (Baltimore, Maryland), v. 5, no. 1 (1976) [lesbian protagonist]
* [[Katherine Forrest]]. "O Captain, My Captain" (1987) [menstrual blood vampire story]
* [[Judy Grahn]]. Mundane's World (coming-of-age menstruation ritual)
* Lakey, Barb, or Rausch, Barb. "Claire de Lune" (Wimmen's Comix #13, Supernatural Issue)
* [[Alan Moore]]. "Swamp Thing" from DC (included a story on fear of menstruation)
* [[Jody Scott]]. Passing for Human (alien/vampire menstrual blood)
* [[Jody Scott]]. I Vampire (alien/vampire menstrual blood; sequel)
* [[Theodore Sturgeon]]. "Some of Your Blood"
* [[Sheri Tepper]]. [[The Gate to Women's Country]] [in a sexist society, menstruating women are required to place a red flag on their doors ... menstruation isn't a major theme of the story, but this kind of menstrual signal appears in a lot of sexist societies]
* [[Connie Willis]]. "[[Even the Queen]]" (satirizes an anti-menstrual women's cycle)

Breastfeeding, nursing, breast milk in SF

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Stories Portraying Breastfeeding or Breast Milk:

* [[Piers Anthony]]. "In the Barn" in ''Again, Dangerous Visions'' edited by Harlan Ellison (human women treated as cows)
* [[David Brin]]. "Piecework" in Interzone, Jan./Feb. 1990 (human women used to produce industrial supplies through birth and breast milk)
* [[Suzy McKee Charnas]]. Walk to the End of the World (cheese made of human breast milk)
* [[Hiromi Goto]]. "Tales From the Breast" in Ms. Magazine, Volume VII, Number 2 (Sept./Oct. 1996)
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]. The Notebook of Lazarus Long (adult man nurses from mother)
* [[Nalo Hopkinson]]. Brown Girl in the Ring (woman nurses child)
* [[Ira Levin]]. Rosemary's Baby (nursing at end of story)
* [[Walter M. Miller]], "Vengeance for Nikolai" in No Limits, edited by Joseph W. Ferman (Ballantine 1964)
* [[Toni Morrison]]. Beloved
* [[Theodore Sturgeon]]. Some of Your Blood
* [[John Varley]]. "Options" in Blue Champagne (woman nursing her child)
* [[Elisabeth Vonarburg]]. Silent City
* "M is for the Many"

Kate Wilhelm Guest of Honor Speech

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[[Kate Wilhelm]]

I really want to thank Scott and Kathy for having me and a wonderful time. And I've never seen so much food. I will go home -- I refuse to say fatter - but with more reserves.

I don't have a prepared speech. I thought I'd address a question I get all the time: why do you write what you write. It's a good question and ...

I've been touched by magic. ... That was a magic moment. And all the talk about the magic moments that resulted in who I am today. [is it not working? laughing. technical problems.]

The first magic happened when I was a small child, many when I was a teenager. ... So formative. ... nothing superficial about it, the kind of magic I'm talking about. I was born with a speech defect--nobody could understand a word i said. And we were a reading family--this was before tv, computers -- so I read.

... one of the great [?] was when my mother went to the library and when one of us went with her. i was the 4th of 6 children so my turn didn't come up too often but when it came i was ecstatic.

so my turn ... we went ... cleveland ... So she left me in the children's department and went about doing what parents do. And after a while I decided I wanted to go home and I couldn't find my mother. ... nobody bothered me. I decided to go home. I knew I could get there, all I had to do was follow streetcar tracks. It didn't occur to me that this was 70-something, and we lived [a long way away]. I went outside and didn't recognize anything. ... taken to police. ... lots of ice cream. ... My brothers were extremely jealous when they learned of my adventures.

But that was magic. ...

But I learned that a library of books, magic, words can touch you and change your world.

The next incident, still when I was quite young, when I had a ruptured appendix, and i was desperately ill, and in those days we had oxygen tents. ... in hospital for a long time. One night i woke up and the tent was gone and I was surrounded by fire. And I was burning up with fever. I thought I'd died and gone to hell. I was seven. Late that night I was caught almost to an outside door and captured and taken back to bed and put in restraints. But I learned something else. That was another magic moment. I learned: you don't give in; you escape if you can.

[audience applause] I was on my way out of there.

I learned later -- my mother was a strict southern baptist. her best friend was an equally strict catholic. and because the baptists don't baptize until age of reason ... her best friend ... i'm not sure if i was baptized or given last rites ....learned that night, you don't give in, you don't surrender, you escape.

So in these years, not communicating with anybody, being isolated, being ignored. little child you are ignored. and i was most invisible because i couldn't talk. i learned to read. i don't remember learning to read. but my earliest memories are hiding behind a chair and reading. and that was satisfying. i told myself stories -- that started when i was 3 or 4. i told myself elaborate stories. but i couldn't share them.

they found that my problem was what they called clatter; all my words ran together. and it was very easy to correct because i could read. they made me pro-nounce-e-ver-y-single word and things ngot a little easier. but i had already learned what it is to be alone, not communicating, and i learned what it is to fight back.

.... later my mother insisted that i was the age of reason and i was baptized again. i was saved twice. but for whatever reason i objected to this big man ducking me under water. and i objected strenuously and i fought him. i fought him like a devil. he got as wet as i was. he complained to my mother; my mother was humiliated. i did not want to be drowned and i resisted. a year after that at the age of 12 - which in my case was the age of religion - i turned my back on all organized religion. i thought any religion which fills a child with terror and makes me think that i had died and gone to hell is not for me. (applause) of course that's -- ? ... and if anybody -- (applause) -- of course we have an administration that relies on fear ...

so moving on ... my father read zane grey and so did i. my mother read pearl buck and faith baldwin and so did i. i read my brother's tarzan books and a little later all of his thorne smith books. and of course i didn't understand them but i read them all. and i read my sister's hollywood magazines and romances. i read everything. so i got pretty b ored with children's section pretty quickly.

i remember getting my adult library card. we lived in the woods ... kentucky? -- so i walked into the adult section of the library, the proud possessor of a library card, and i was overwhelmed. and it wasn't anything except the thought: i have to read every book in here. and i began. i devised this system. two novels, two nonfiction books, and the other four divided by biography, poetry, plays and anthologies. and once a week i hit the library and took all my eight books and i read them. and this continued for many years. in high school i was chastised when the teacher caught me reading a robert benchley book. he was a very funny man. but i didn't tell her at home i was also reading dostoyevsky. and dostoyevsky led me to the other russian writers tolstoy and golgo ... i read by association but mostly by alphabet.

and nothing in our library was segregated by genre. i read wells and jules verne and they were in general ... a few things had their own and agatha christie had her own section ... i loved them all. most undiscriminating writer god invented.

all through school ... you're a writer, you're a writer, you should be a writer. and i always told stories. i told my little brothers stories. the only way i could think of taking charge of two little brothers was by telling stories. and i reinvented the serial. i have left more people danglingn off cliffs [laughter] andn facing fearsome monsters - and they loved it - ... so i was making 'em up as fast as i could.

one of my brothers i visited him 3 years ago in florida, and he's a deacon in the baptist church byu the way. he assures me that i've been well saved. he tells me he still remembers some of the stories i told, and i have no recollection.

... in high school they told me i was a writer. i wanted to be a chemist. i was good in science and good in math. i thought it was so exciting to find what was in a rock, what were its parts, what was it made of. and then the dean took me aside and she said no, if you ... chemistry, you will be a teacher, or a man's lab assistant ... i had four brothers and i'd learned to fight real young and i knew i would tangle with any man who was my boss. that was not going to work. so i dropped chemistry and got married right after high school instead. but i kept reading.

then ten years after graduating high school -- i didn't go to college, i had a scholarship, but if i couldn't be what i wanted to be, i didn't want to go at all -- 10 years after college i was reading an anthology ... i said to myself this is really bad, and i said "i could do that" and that day i gave myself permission to write a bad story. and it was calle d 'the ..?ridealong?. station' and john campbell bought it. i wrote it in longhand ...

and i got a letter from john campbell a few weeks after i sent him the story. i had to notarize a document sasying that i was the writer of this story. and i've asked other writers did they have to do that? and they all said no. but ... got check for $17 and bought a typewriter. [applause] and i've been writing ever since.

... and second story sold. so i knew i could tell stories and sell them. ... when they told me all through school that i should be a writer, i didn't see any way on earth that a girl from a working class family, i had never met an editor, ... i didn't see how anybody could bridge that gap from where i was to publishing stories; i just couldn't see it. ...

sold two stories, just kept writing ... still had no mentor, and nobody to tell me how to do it, what i was doing right or wrong ... just selling ... There weren't in those days as many sources of information as you hguys have. and i didn't come across any. ... i never saw a science fiction magazine in those days. i saw the anthologies, and that was all. i learned later there was one story in louisville that sold -- ? magazine. and ... bookie. of course louisville is home of kentucky derby ... and this bookstore had a sign that said no women allowed. i couldln't believe it. so i never came across a magazine. and in those days ... writing everything ... i wrote a mystery story. and the only ones that sold were science fiction. so i became a science fiction writer of sorts. and it wasn't really by choice. ... i was telling stories; that was all i've ever done. i was telling stories. and i've never put a word on paper until i've told the entire story to myself. i tell the story to myself first so that when i write it it goes very fast. ... then can take a long time because i have to rethink and rethink ... it doesn't matter how long, i tell myself first and then i write it.

and i've always written those kind of stories ... and i've always buried them because i make no distinction between this kind and that kind, because that was how i learned to read, reading everything, and that seemed normal to me ... and that's been my mode ever since. in the early days some of the criticism i got, some of the reviews, would say things like another strong wilhelm woman and another weak man. i never saw it that way. i was writing about the kind of women i either knew or admired or wanted to know. i was writing about normal women. and normal men. [applause & laughter] but that criticism persisted quite a while. and you might think it's over & done with now. but one of my novels - this was in the 80s, i was bpublishing at harper & row, this was a novel that i submitted called the clewiston test, and ... the other ? turned it down, and he told me, a man cannot rape his wife ... and that was a pivotal part of the novel, that was the novel, that was what it was going from word one. so i couldn't rewrite it to suit him, i wouldn't have any way. so my agent took it back, i took it back, farrar straus published it. but then farrar straus wrote of a novel of mine called faultlines about a 70-year old woman who has an illegitimate son who is rebelling against his mother b/c she won't conform ... and the son was very unhappy and so was the editor. he said no, this old woman is mistreating her son. i think he had a mother issue. we took it back ... harper & row. so i've been bounced around a lot and it's all been something like this, wehre the editors said, well i don't know or i don't understand or can you change this and i've always said no and i've always found somewhere else.

i've learned to define myself instead of letting them define me ... i write what i want, i won't use a pseudonym. that was advice i got, separate it out ... i said no, i'm the author, and i won't hide, no matter what it is. so i've had a checkered career, i've had a very fulfilling career. the best kind of editor for me is one who doesn't get in the way [laughter] who lets me have my head, who lets me do what i want, without complaint, and they're hard to find. [laughter] gordon ben hill was the first one, and bless gordon ben hill, he took everything i did, i wrote a novel called The Good children ...

good novel, i like it; they didn'tn want to take it. i said if they don't want to take it i'm out of there. ... i do what i do ... and somebody else would have taken it; ... i always win.

... it's been like that; it hasn't been easy; there's been one struggle after another; and if you define yourself and what you're going to do and persevere ... i think what i did is the best way ... i don't let them tell me what i'm going to do b/c they're driven by the market, and i'm not.

the most recent bit of magic that happened to me was with my granddaughter. when she was about 2, she and her father, my son, and his wife ... and every night we took turns, we all read to her, and her parents did ... and one night she brought me one of those hideous supermarket books that used to sell for a quarter or something ... garish ... and i knew she had good books because i'd given her good books ... and it was the same kind of book ... and she pouted. what will you read. and i said i'll read my hands. and i opened my hands and i told her a story ... about a dragon ... the baby dragon who eats the fox and hen. she loved it. so the next night when it was my turn, i said what shall it be, and she said read your hands! [applause] so i read my hands, and for two years, every night, "read your hands" and i made up a story every night for two years at least. so one night ... she was about four ... i cut one of the stories off very short. always at the end i said "the end" and closed my hands and that was it. never any fuss about it until that night and she opened my hands and said "no" and opened my hands and put her hands and told me a decent ending for the story. [applause]

in her ending a magic mermaid came out of the ocean and grabbed that mean old fox and flew back over the ocean and dropped him in and then just to be sure she flew back and got mrs. fox and dropped her in too, and then she closed her hands and said the end.

and i realized i had witnessed real magic - ... storytelling technique ... adult struggle. and she grasped it. she has storytelling technique down pat. and she is now a 15year old and she is a wonderful writer. so i saw magic. but it hasn't been easy. i have to admit ... i worked hard ... i find joy in my work. ... i'm never happier than when i'm writing ... i'll never retired. all of you young people waiting for us old people to get out of the way ... [applause] some of us aren't going away soon. and thank you all. [applause]

[[category:WisCon 30 Events]]

Kate Wilhelm

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== Bibliography ==

=== Science Fiction, Fantasy and Realistic Novels ===
*''[[More Bitter Than Death]]'' ([[1962]])
*''[[The Clone]]'' ([[1965]], with Theodore L. Thomas)
*''[[The Nevermore Affair]]'' ([[1966]])
*''[[The Killer Thing]]'' ([[1967]])
*''[[Let the Fire Fall]]'' ([[1969]])
*''[[The Year of the Cloud]]'' ([[1970]], with Theodore L. Thomas)
*''[[Margaret and I]]'' ([[1971]])
*''[[City of Cain]]'' ([[1974]])
*''[[Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang]]'' ([[1976]])
*''[[The Clewiston Test]]'' ([[1976]])
*''[[Fault Lines]]'' ([[1977]])
*''[[Juniper Time]]'' ([[1979]])
*''[[The Winter Beach]]'' ([[1981]])
*''[[A Sense of Shadow]]'' ([[1981]])
*''[[Oh, Susannah!]]'' ([[1982]])
*''[[Welcome, Chaos]]'' ([[1983]])
*''[[Huysman's Pets]]'' ([[1985]])
*''[[Crazy Time]]'' ([[1988]])
*''[[Cambio Bay]]'' ([[1990]])
*''[[Naming the Flowers]]'' ([[1992]])
*''[[Justice for Some]]'' ([[1993]])
*''[[The Good Children]]'' ([[1998]])
*''[[The Deepest Water]]'' ([[2000]])
*''[[Skeletons|Skeletons: A Novel of Suspense]]'' ([[2002]])
*''[[The Price of Silence]]'' ([[2005]])

=== Mystery Novels ===

'''Barbara Holloway Series'''

*''[[Death Qualified: A Mystery of Chaos]]'' ([[1991]])
*''[[The Best Defense]]'' ([[1994]])
*''[[For the Defense: or, Malice Prepense]]'' ([[1996]])
*''[[Defense for the Devil]]'' ([[1999]])
*''[[No Defense]]'' ([[2000]])
*''[[Desperate Measures]]'' ([[2001]])
*''[[The Clear and Convincing Proof]]'' ([[2003]])
*''[[The Unbidden Truth]]'' ([[2004]])

'''Constance and Charlie Series'''

*''[[The Hamlet Trap]]'' ([[1987]])
*''[[The Dark Door]]'' ([[1988]])
*''[[Smart House]]'' ([[1989]])
*''[[Sweet, Sweet Poison]]'' ([[1990]])
*''[[Seven Kinds of Death]]'' ([[1992]])

=== Story Collections ===
*''[[The Mile-Long Spaceship]]'' ([[1963]], UK title: ''[[Andover and the Android]]'')
*''[[The Downstairs Room (collection)|The Downstairs Room, and Other Speculative Fiction]]'' ([[1968]])
*''[[Abyss (collection)|Abyss: Two Novellas]]'' ([[1971]])
*''[[The Infinity Box (collection)|The Infinity Box: A Collection of Speculative Fiction]]'' ([[1975]])
*''[[Somerset Dreams (collection)|Somerset Dreams and Other Fictions]]'' ([[1978]])
*''[[Better than One]]'' ([[1980]], with [[Damon Knight]])
*''[[Listen, Listen]]'' ([[1981]])
*''[[State of Grace]]'' ([[1991]])
*''[[And the Angels Sing]]'' ([[1992]])
*''[[A Flush of Shadows]]'' ([[1995]], Constance & Charlie mystery stories)
*''[[Children of the Wind]]'' ([[1989]])

=== Non-fiction ===
*''[[Storyteller (memoir)|Storyteller: 30 Years of the Clarion Writers Workshop]]'' ([[2005]])

==Interviews & Speeches==

* [[Kate Wilhelm Guest of Honor Speech|WisCon 30 Guest of Honor Speech]]

== External Links ==
[http://www.katewilhelm.com/ Kate Wilhelm's Web Site]

[[category:1928 Births|Wilhelm, Kate]]
[[category:Hugo Award winning authors|Wilhelm, Kate]]
[[category:Nebula Award winning authors|Wilhelm, Kate]]

Smoke and Shadows

2006-06-17T21:07:24Z

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'''Smoke and Shadows''' ([[2004]]) is a novel by [[Tanya Huff]]. It is the first book in a series that spins off her previous ''Blood'' books, which also featured the character of the [[vampire]] [[Henry Fitzroy]], but here the protagonist is a minor character from those books who takes center stage, a young gay man named Tony Foster.

After moving to Vancouver with Henry, and then tentatively separating from him, Tony is hired as a production assistant for a television show about a vampire detective.

[[category:2004 Publications|Smoke and Shadows]]
[[category:Vampires]]

J.K. Rowling

2006-06-17T21:06:51Z

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'''Joanne Rowling''' (born 31 July [[1965]]) is an English writer and one of the most popular authors in the world.

Her books appear under the name "J.K. Rowling" because her publisher, Bloomsbury, felt that [[initials]] would be more likely to appeal to a male readership than a female name. (The K stands for "Kathleen", her grandmother's name, as Rowling has no middle name.) This is an effect of [[sexism]] in publishing.

Rowling's ''Harry Potter'' series is a world-wide best-seller, which has been translated in dozens of languages, adapted into audiobooks and blockbuster movies, turned into a profitable merchandising franchise, and has inspired millions of [[fan fiction]] stories.

== Bibliography ==

=== Novels ===
* ''Harry Potter'' series
** ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'' ([[1997]])
** ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' ([[1998]])
** ''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' ([[1999]])
** ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' ([[2000]])
** ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' ([[2003]])
** ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'' ([[2005]])
** (seventh book, title as yet unknown) (forthcoming)

=== Booklets ===
Non-profit ''Harry Potter'' tie-in books whose proceeds went to a charitable organisation:
* ''Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'' ([[2001]]) as "Newt Scamander" (fictional character)
* ''Quidditch Through the Ages'' ([[2001]]), as "Kennilworthy Whisp" (fictional character)

== External Links ==
* [http://www.jkrowling.com/ JKRowling Official Site - Harry Potter and more]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling J.K. Rowling - Wikipedia]
* [http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm0746830/ J.K. Rowling filmography at the Internet Movie Database]

[[category:1965 Births|Rowling, J.K.]]
[[category:Hugo Award winning authors|Rowling, J.K.]]
[[category:DeGendered Pen Names]]

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

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[[category:Nebula Award winning authors|Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann]]

==Bibliography==

* ''[[Bronwyn's Bane]]'' - A humorous tale of a giant clumsy princess.

==External Links==

* [http://www.eascarborough.com/ eascarborough.com]

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

2006-06-17T17:07:32Z

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[[category:Nebula Award winning authors|Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann]]

==External Links==

* [http://www.eascarborough.com/ eascarborough.com]

Feminist comic books for kids

2006-06-17T14:14:00Z

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Is it too much to ask for… non-sexist pulp? An exciting story with heroes, villains, monsters, maybe some space ships and giant squids, and some non-irritating female characters?

==Recommended Works==

==Suggested Works==

* Akiko - comic book, but not a superhero. A great adventurer with friends.
* Castle Waiting by [[Linda Medley]]
* Corrector Yui
* Courtney Crumrin by [[Ted Naifeh]]
* Fables and Runways
* Franny K. Stein, mad scientist. Heavily illustrated but not a comic book & not a superhero
* [[Girl Genius: A Gaslamp Fantasy with Adventure, Romance & Mad Science]] by [[Phil Foglio]] and [[Kaja Foglio]] at http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/
* Go Girl by [[Trina Robbins]]
* JLA Unlimited
* Kamichama Karin
* Leave It To Chance by [[James Robinson]]
* Little Lit series, ed. [[Art Spiegelman]]
* Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds. Not quite a superhero, but she flies around on a cool glider and is a scientist with a laboratory and experiments, and is never helpless or captured.
* Neotopia
* Polly and the Pirates by [[Ted Naifeh]]
* PS 238 - An elementary school for children of superheroes
* Runaways - A group of teenagers; story not sexist; points for positive portrayals of gay characters. Story a little advanced for a 6-year-old.
* ''Star Wars: Legend'' series (upcoming) by John Ostrander. "[A] lot of the characters are female and look reasonably authoritative and tough. In other words, there are female fighters and generals, and they’re not all drawn to look like they’re 17 with a Hollywood boob job."
* Teen Titans
* Yotsuba@!
* Young Avengers - points for positive portrayals of gay characters; geared for kids around 10yo
* Young Justice - For kids
* [[The X-Men]] - Some of the specific runs, like [[Dark Phoenix]].

* Movies & TV: "Batman cartoons are slightly less stupid and sexist than Superman ones, and the stories aren’t completely insipid."

==Criticized Works==

==External Links==

* [http://blogs.feministsf.net/?p=21 FeministSF Blog Posting + Comments (2006/6/13)]
* [http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/detailListBooks.asp?idBookLists=192 List of recommended manga, by age group]
* [http://www.abcb.com/parents/ A Parents' Guide to Anime]

Feminist comic books for kids

2006-06-17T14:11:31Z

66.184.216.210: /* External Links */

Is it too much to ask for… non-sexist pulp? An exciting story with heroes, villains, monsters, maybe some space ships and giant squids, and some non-irritating female characters?

==Recommended Works==

==Suggested Works==

* Go Girl by [[Trina Robbins]]
* PS 238 - An elementary school for children of superheroes
* [[The X-Men]] - Some of the specific runs, like [[Dark Phoenix]].
* Young Justice - For kids
* Teen Titans
* JLA Unlimited
* ''Star Wars: Legend'' series (upcoming) by John Ostrander. "[A] lot of the characters are female and look reasonably authoritative and tough. In other words, there are female fighters and generals, and they’re not all drawn to look like they’re 17 with a Hollywood boob job."
* Movies & TV: "Batman cartoons are slightly less stupid and sexist than Superman ones, and the stories aren’t completely insipid."
* Neotopia
* Little Lit series, ed. [[Art Spiegelman]]
* Fables and Runways
* Yotsuba@!
* Corrector Yui
* Kamichama Karin
* Leave It To Chance by [[James Robinson]]
* Polly and the Pirates by [[Ted Naifeh]]
* Courtney Crumrin by [[Ted Naifeh]]
* Runaways - A group of teenagers; story not sexist; points for positive portrayals of gay characters. Story a little advanced for a 6-year-old.
* Franny K. Stein, mad scientist. Heavily illustrated but not a comic book & not a superhero
* Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds. Not quite a superhero, but she flies around on a cool glider and is a scientist with a laboratory and experiments, and is never helpless or captured.
* Akiko - comic book, but not a superhero. A great adventurer with friends.
* Young Avengers - points for positive portrayals of gay characters; geared for kids around 10yo
* Castle Waiting by [[Linda Medley]]
* [[Girl Genius: A Gaslamp Fantasy with Adventure, Romance & Mad Science]] by [[Phil Foglio]] and [[Kaja Foglio]] at http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/

==Criticized Works==

==External Links==

* [http://blogs.feministsf.net/?p=21 FeministSF Blog Posting + Comments (2006/6/13)]
* [http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/detailListBooks.asp?idBookLists=192 List of recommended manga, by age group]
* [http://www.abcb.com/parents/ A Parents' Guide to Anime]

Feminist comic books for kids

2006-06-17T14:02:42Z

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==External Links==

* [http://blogs.feministsf.net/?p=21 FeministSF Blog Posting + Comments (2006/6/13)]

Prophecies relating to women

2006-06-17T02:44:35Z

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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.

Joss Whedon

2006-06-17T02:43:30Z

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Creator of [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]], [[Angel (TV series)|Angel]], [[Firefly]], and [[Serenity]]. Formerly a writer for [[Roseanne]]. Currently a writer for [[The X-Men (comic book series)|The X-Men]].

==Whedon, Women, Feminism==

==Whedon, Race & Ethnicity==

[[category:People|Whedon, Joss]]

Eowyn

2006-06-17T02:38:33Z

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'''Eowyn''' is a fictional character in [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings (book)|The Lord of the Rings]]''.

=== Storyline ===

Niece of King Théoden of Rohan, she chafed at the restrictions placed on women in her society, striving to be a shieldmaiden of reknown, just as her brother Éomer was a doughty warrior.

Éowyn became the nursemaid of her uncle, Théoden, and while serving Théoden, she met Aragorn, the future King, and fell in love with him, unaware that he was betrothed to Arwen.

During the flight to the refuge of Helm's Deep, she was relegated to caring for the women and children, despite her desire to guard the group against attack as the men did.

After Aragorn and his companions took The Paths of the Dead at Dunharrow, she was told to go back to the women while the men rode off to the aid of Gondor. She rebelled against this stricture and disguised herself as a man, Dernhelm, to ride off with the troops. (In the movie, she isn't disguised but somehow escapes the notice of her Uncle and brother.)

In battle with the forces of Sauron, she slew the Witch King (a Nazgûl), fulfilling Glorfindel's [[Prophecies Relating to Women|prophecy]] that the Witch King would never die by the hand of man. She was gravely wounded in the fight, and was at death's door until Aragorn healed her in both mind and spirit with an infusion of athelas (a.k.a. kingsfoil). She was still too weak to travel when Aragorn rode off with the Host of Gondor to the final battle with the forces of Sauron.

She rested in the Houses of Healing with Faramir, Steward of Gondor, also recuperating from grievous wounds, and her eyes were opened. She realized that she loved this gentle man and declared to him, ''"I will be a shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren. No longer do I desire to be a queen."'' (from [http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/lordoftheringstrilogy/ The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien], Book 6, Chapter 5 - The Steward and the King (c. page 300) Text Copyright © 1955 by George Allen and Unwin Ltd.)

Éowyn is an ambiguous figure, as are many of Tolkien's women, on the one hand courageous and noble, yet willing in the end to give up her previous ambitions in order to take on the more traditionally female roles of healer, wife, and mother.

=== Eowyn in the movies ===

Éowyn is played by actress Miranda Otto in the recent [[The Lord of the Rings (movies)|movie adaptation]] of ''The Lord of the Rings''. This adaptation resulted in certain changes to her character.

Among the more amusing conclusions drawn by the forced ellipses of transferring such a huge book to the screen, there is an inference Éowyn will ultimately become queen of Rohan. This is because the sub-plot involving her brother's claims to the throne were omitted from the screenplay. In a line wholly invented for the movie, her uncle King Theoden leaves the succession to her before departing for battle:

''"I have left instruction. The people are to follow your rule in my stead. Take up my seat in the Golden Hall. Long may you defend Edoras if the battle goes ill."''

== Sources ==
*[http://www.supershadow.com/archive/lordoftherings/return_of_the_king/script.html Transcript of ''Return of the King'']

[[category:Notable Female Characters]] [[category:Warrior Women]] [[category:Women Disguised as Men]]

Eowyn

2006-06-17T02:37:50Z

66.184.216.210: /* Storyline */ adding link to prophecies

'''Eowyn''' is a fictional character in [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings (book)|The Lord of the Rings]]''.

=== Storyline ===

Niece of King Théoden of Rohan, she chafed at the restrictions placed on women in her society, striving to be a shieldmaiden of reknown, just as her brother Éomer was a doughty warrior.

Éowyn became the nursemaid of her uncle, Théoden, and while serving Théoden, she met Aragorn, the future King, and fell in love with him, unaware that he was betrothed to Arwen.

During the flight to the refuge of Helm's Deep, she was relegated to caring for the women and children, despite her desire to guard the group against attack as the men did.

After Aragorn and his companions took The Paths of the Dead at Dunharrow, she was told to go back to the women while the men rode off to the aid of Gondor. She rebelled against this stricture and disguised herself as a man, Dernhelm, to ride off with the troops. (In the movie, she isn't disguised but somehow escapes the notice of her Uncle and brother.)

In battle with the forces of Sauron, she slew the Witch King (a Nazgûl), fulfilling Glorfindel's [[prophecies about women|prophecy]] that the Witch King would never die by the hand of man. She was gravely wounded in the fight, and was at death's door until Aragorn healed her in both mind and spirit with an infusion of athelas (a.k.a. kingsfoil). She was still too weak to travel when Aragorn rode off with the Host of Gondor to the final battle with the forces of Sauron.

She rested in the Houses of Healing with Faramir, Steward of Gondor, also recuperating from grievous wounds, and her eyes were opened. She realized that she loved this gentle man and declared to him, ''"I will be a shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren. No longer do I desire to be a queen."'' (from [http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/lordoftheringstrilogy/ The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien], Book 6, Chapter 5 - The Steward and the King (c. page 300) Text Copyright © 1955 by George Allen and Unwin Ltd.)

Éowyn is an ambiguous figure, as are many of Tolkien's women, on the one hand courageous and noble, yet willing in the end to give up her previous ambitions in order to take on the more traditionally female roles of healer, wife, and mother.

=== Eowyn in the movies ===

Éowyn is played by actress Miranda Otto in the recent [[The Lord of the Rings (movies)|movie adaptation]] of ''The Lord of the Rings''. This adaptation resulted in certain changes to her character.

Among the more amusing conclusions drawn by the forced ellipses of transferring such a huge book to the screen, there is an inference Éowyn will ultimately become queen of Rohan. This is because the sub-plot involving her brother's claims to the throne were omitted from the screenplay. In a line wholly invented for the movie, her uncle King Theoden leaves the succession to her before departing for battle:

''"I have left instruction. The people are to follow your rule in my stead. Take up my seat in the Golden Hall. Long may you defend Edoras if the battle goes ill."''

== Sources ==
*[http://www.supershadow.com/archive/lordoftherings/return_of_the_king/script.html Transcript of ''Return of the King'']

[[category:Notable Female Characters]] [[category:Warrior Women]] [[category:Women Disguised as Men]]

Talk:Leprechaun

2006-06-17T02:36:24Z

66.184.216.210: why?

Umm ... what is the relevance of this page to feminist sf?