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Slash

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82.41.225.44: Again the thing about slash being by definition non-canon. It keeps coming up, but in practice, slash just means same-sex/fictional. Canon or not. I've never heard "slasher" used to mean "slash fan".

'''Slash''' is a [[fan fiction]] term designating romantic and/or erotic (and/or [[pornography|pornographic]]) [[same-sex]] relationships between [[fictional characters]].

The term comes from the typographical "slash" character: "/", placed between the names or initials of the characters paired in such a relationship, e.g.: "Kirk/Spock" or "[[K/S]]", after one of the early popular slash pairings.

== Vocabulary ==

* '''Slash ''fiction''''' is also referred to as '''slash''', in an abbreviated way, or "'''slash fic'''".

* The verb '''''to slash''''' derives from the noun. [[Fan]]s use it to designate the ''writing'' of slash fiction, the practice of [[reading]] same-sex relationships in a text, or the making of implications about such relationships (for instance, in fannish conversations about a fandom).

*'''Slash fan''': someone who writes or enjoys slash.

*'''Slashy''', adj., something that has '''slash'''-like qualities. Often refers to [[subtext]] in the source material, notably in acting performances or in the writing. Also designates [[fan]] productions that involve slash, e.g., slashy artwork.

*'''Saffic''': alternative name for slash fiction concerning female character. (It's a pun on "sapphic".) It is sometimes favoured over the term '''femmeslash''', because the construction of the word "femmeslash" carries the implication that '''slash''' is only about ''male'' same-sex relationships.

===Translations of the term "slash"===
*In French:
**'''Biaiser''', verb, meaning "to slash"
*(Insert other translations)

== Practice and Theory of Slash ==

=== Practice ===

;The inventors of slash are [[women]].

[[Women]] have created, named, and driven the '''slash''' phenomenon, and are still the primary producers and consumers of slash.

The position of [[women]] as [[fans]] in a [[male-dominated]], [[heterosexist]] [[popular culture]] is intimately linked to the production of slash, and the [[relations of production]] of slash.

=== Theory ===

There is some controversy over the definition of '''slash''', particularly concerning the requirement of non-[[canon]]icity in slash relationships. This is because the term '''slash''' emerged in a context where [[canon]]ical erotic and/or romantic same-sex relationships were rare to non-existent: products of (primarily) North American and British popular culture in the 1970s, especially on [[television]] and in the [[movies]]. Therefore, in the absence of overt homoerotic material, the distinction between canon and non-canon same-sex relationships became moot.

Since the emergence of canonical same-sex relationships and their increasing overtness in Western popular culture, it has been suggested that the term [[homoerotic]] could usefully co-exist with '''slash''' to designate, respectively, canonical and non-canonical same-sex relationships. However, this suggestion is not standard usage.

Earlier references to '''slash''' also tended to designate only, or primarily, ''male'' same-sex relationships, due to the prevalence of [[male characters]] over female characters onscreen, and the increased importance accorded to them by the producers of popular culture.

== Further reading ==
* Joanna Russ, [[Pornography By Women For Women, With Love]]
* [http://www.trickster.org/symposium/symp139.html "What Is Slash?"], essay at The Fanfic Symposium

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Gendered "Otherness" Experiences in the Body

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Many writers have chosen to explore gender roles and the impact of gender on characters' lives and experiences by having their characters live as the other (or another) gender. In SF, this is often sex changes, or alien sexes; in historical or fantasy fiction, there can be "body swaps", magical transformations, or characters -- often female -- who live and pass as male.

this can be literal body swaps with another character, or

Some examples:

: [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]], [[Hawkmistress!]] (1982) (girl disguises herself as boy and passes for male)
: [[Maureen McHugh]], [[Mission Child]] (woman lives and passes as man)
: [[Geoff Ryman]], [[The Warrior Who Carried Life]] (magical transformation of female to male body)

List of feminist and female writers

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: [[Eleanor Arnason]], (born [[1942]])
: [[Margaret Atwood]], (born [[1939]])
: [[Leigh Brackett]], ([[1915]]-[[1978]])
: [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]], ([[1930]]-[[1999]])
: [[Lois McMaster Bujold]], (born [[1949]])
: [[Octavia E. Butler]], ([[1947]]-[[2006]])
: [[Angela Carter]], ([[1940]]-[[1992]])
: [[Suzy McKee Charnas]], (born [[1939]])
: [[C. J. Cherryh]], (born [[1942]])
: [[Samuel R. Delany]], (born [[1942]])
: [[Candas Jane Dorsey]] (born [[1952]])
: [[L. Timmel Duchamp]]
: [[Suzette Haden Elgin]] (born [[1936]])
: [[Carol Emshwiller]], (born [[1921]])
: [[Kelley Eskridge]], (born [[1960]])
: [[Karen Joy Fowler]], (born [[1950]])
: [[Jane Gaskell]]
: [[Sally Miller Gearhart]], (born [[1931]])
: [[Mary Gentle]], (born [[1956]])
: [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]], ([[1860]]-[[1935]])
: [[Molly Gloss]]
: [[Phyllis Gotlieb]], (born [[1926]])
: [[Hiromi Goto]]
: [[Nicola Griffith]], (born [[1960]])
: [[Eileen Gunn]], (born [[1945]])
: [[Barbara Hambly]], (born [[1951]])
: [[Elizabeth Hand]], (born [[1957]])
: [[Zenna Henderson]], ([[1917]]-[[1983]])
: [[Sonya Dorman Hess]], (born [[1924]])
: [[P. C. Hodgell]], (born [[1951]])
: [[Nalo Hopkinson]], (born [[1960]])
: [[Marie Jakober]], (born [[1941]])
: [[Gwyneth Jones]], (born [[1952]])
: [[Rosemary Kirstein]]
: [[Ellen Kushner]], (born [[1955]])
: [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], (born [[1929]])
: [[Tanith Lee]], (born [[1947]])
: [[Kelly Link]]
: [[Anna Livia]], (born [[1955]])
: [[Jane Loudon]], (born [[1802]]- [[18??]])
: [[Rosaleen Love]]
: [[Elizabeth A. Lynn]], (born [[1946]])
: [[Katherine MacLean]], (born [[1925]])
: [[Laurie J. Marks]]
: [[Maureen F. McHugh]], (born [[1959]])
: [[Vonda N. McIntyre]], (born [[1948]])
: [[Judith Merril]], ([[1923]]-[[1997]])
: [[Naomi Mitchison]], ([[1897]]-[[1999]])
: [[Elizabeth Moon]], (born [[1945]])
: [[C.L. Moore]], ([[1911]]-[[1987]])
: [[Pat Murphy]], (born [[1955]])
: [[E. Nesbit]], ([[1858]]-[[1924]])
: [[Alice Nunn]],
: [[Rebecca Ore]], (born [[1948]])
: [[Marge Piercy]], (born [[1936]])
: [[Doris Piserchia]], (born [[1928]])
: [[Kit Reed]], (born [[1932]])
: [[Joanna Russ]], (born [[1937]])
: [[Mary Doria Russell]], (born [[1950]])
: [[Margaret St. Clair]], ([[1911]]-[[1995]])
: [[Pamela Sargent]], (born [[1948]])
: [[Mary Shelley]], ([[1797]]-[[1851]])
: [[Delia Sherman]], (born [[1951]])
: [[Johanna Sinisalo]], (born [[1958]])
: [[Joan Slonczewski]], (born [[1956]])
: [[Stephanie A. Smith]]
: [[Nancy Springer]], (born [[1948]])
: [[Lucy Sussex]], (born [[1957]])
: [[Sheri S. Tepper]], (born [[1929]])
: [[James Tiptree, Jr]], ([[1915]]-[[1987]]) (Pseudonym of [[Alice Sheldon]])
: [[Lisa Tuttle]], (born [[1952]])
: [[Sydney J. Van Scyoc]], (born [[1939]])
: [[Joan D. Vinge]], (born [[1948]])
: [[Élisabeth Vonarburg]], (born [[1947]])
: [[Kate Wilhelm]], (born [[1928]])
: [[Connie Willis]], (born [[1945]])
: [[Terri Windling]], (born [[1958]])
: [[Monique Wittig]], ([[1935]]-[[2003]])
: [[Jane Yolen]], (born [[1939]])
: [[Sarah Zettel]], (born [[1966]])
: [[Pamela Zoline]], (born [[1941]])

List of feminist and female writers

2006-04-25T15:14:08Z

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: [[Eleanor Arnason]], (born [[1942]])
: [[Margaret Atwood]], (born [[1939]])
: [[Leigh Brackett]], ([[1915]]-[[1978]])
: [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]], ([[1930]]-[[1999]])
: [[Lois McMaster Bujold]], (born [[1949]])
: [[Octavia E. Butler]], ([[1947]]-[[2006]])
: [[Angela Carter]], ([[1940]]-[[1992]])
: [[Suzy McKee Charnas]], (born [[1939]])
: [[C. J. Cherryh]], (born [[1942]])
: [[Samuel R. Delany]], (born [[1942]])
: [[Candas Jane Dorsey]] (born [[1952]])
: [[L. Timmel Duchamp]]
: [[Suzette Haden Elgin]] (born [[1936]])
: [[Carol Emshwiller]], (born [[1921]])
: [[Kelley Eskridge]], (born [[1960]])
: [[Karen Joy Fowler]], (born [[1950]])
: [[Jane Gaskell]]
: [[Sally Miller Gearhart]], (born [[1931]])
: [[Mary Gentle]], (born [[1956]])
: [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]], ([[1860]]-[[1935]])
: [[Molly Gloss]]
: [[Phyllis Gotlieb]], (born [[1926]])
: [[Hiromi Goto]]
: [[Nicola Griffith]], (born [[1960]])
: [[Eileen Gunn]], (born [[1945]])
: [[Barbara Hambly]], (born [[1951]])
: [[Elizabeth Hand]], (born [[1957]])
: [[Zenna Henderson]], ([[1917]]-[[1983]])
: [[Sonya Dorman Hess]], (born [[1924]])
: [[P. C. Hodgell]], (born [[1951]])
: [[Nalo Hopkinson]], (born [[1960]])
: [[Marie Jakober]], (born [[1941]])
: [[Gwyneth Jones]], (born [[1952]])
: [[Rosemary Kirstein]]
: [[Ellen Kushner]], (born [[1955]])
: [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], (born [[1929]])
: [[Tanith Lee]], (born [[1947]])
: [[Kelly Link]]
: [[Anna Livia]], (born [[1955]])
: [[Jane Loudon]], (born [[1802]]- [[18??]])
: [[Rosaleen Love]]
: [[Elizabeth A. Lynn]], (born [[1946]])
: [[Katherine MacLean]], (born [[1925]])
: [[Laurie J. Marks]]
: [[Maureen F. McHugh]], (born [[1959]])
: [[Vonda N. McIntyre]], (born [[1948]])
: [[Judith Merril]], ([[1923]]-[[1997]])
: [[Naomi Mitchison]], ([[1897]]-[[1999]])
: [[Elizabeth Moon]], (born [[1945]])
: [[C.L. Moore]], ([[1911]]-[[1987]])
: [[Pat Murphy]], (born [[1955]])
: [[E. Nesbit]], (born [[1858]])
: [[Alice Nunn]], (born [[]])
: [[Rebecca Ore]], (born [[1948]])
: [[Marge Piercy]], (born [[1936]])
: [[Doris Piserchia]], (born [[1928]])
: [[Kit Reed]], (born [[1932]])
: [[Joanna Russ]], (born [[1937]])
: [[Mary Doria Russell]], (born [[1950]])
: [[Margaret St. Clair]], ([[1911]]-[[1995]])
: [[Pamela Sargent]], (born [[1948]])
: [[Mary Shelley]], ([[1797]]-[[1851]])
: [[Delia Sherman]], (born [[1951]])
: [[Johanna Sinisalo]], (born [[1958]])
: [[Joan Slonczewski]], (born [[1956]])
: [[Stephanie A. Smith]]
: [[Nancy Springer]], (born [[1948]])
: [[Lucy Sussex]], (born [[1957]])
: [[Sheri S. Tepper]], (born [[1929]])
: [[James Tiptree, Jr]], ([[1915]]-[[1987]]) (Pseudonym of [[Alice Sheldon]])
: [[Lisa Tuttle]], (born [[1952]])
: [[Sydney J. Van Scyoc]], (born [[1939]])
: [[Joan D. Vinge]], (born [[1948]])
: [[Élisabeth Vonarburg]], (born [[1947]])
: [[Kate Wilhelm]], (born [[1928]])
: [[Connie Willis]], (born [[1945]])
: [[Terri Windling]], (born [[1958]])
: [[Monique Wittig]], ([[1935]]-[[2003]])
: [[Jane Yolen]], (born [[1939]])
: [[Sarah Zettel]], (born [[1966]])
: [[Pamela Zoline]], (born [[1941]])

List of feminist and female writers

2006-04-25T15:11:51Z

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: [[Eleanor Arnason]], (born [[1942]])
: [[Margaret Atwood]], (born [[1939]])
: [[Leigh Brackett]], ([[1915]]-[[1978]])
: [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]], ([[1930]]-[[1999]])
: [[Lois McMaster Bujold]], (born [[1949]])
: [[Octavia E. Butler]], ([[1947]]-[[2006]])
: [[Angela Carter]], ([[1940]]-[[1992]])
: [[Suzy McKee Charnas]], (born [[1939]])
: [[C. J. Cherryh]], (born [[1942]])
: [[Samuel R. Delany]], (born [[1942]])
: [[Candas Jane Dorsey]] (born [[1952]])
: [[L. Timmel Duchamp]]
: [[Suzette Haden Elgin]] (born [[1936]])
: [[Carol Emshwiller]], (born [[1921]])
: [[Kelley Eskridge]], (born [[1960]])
: [[Karen Joy Fowler]], (born [[1950]])
: [[Jane Gaskell]]
: [[Sally Miller Gearhart]], (born [[1931]])
: [[Mary Gentle]], (born [[1956]])
: [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]], ([[1860]]-[[1935]])
: [[Molly Gloss]]
: [[Phyllis Gotlieb]], (born [[1926]])
: [[Hiromi Goto]]
: [[Nicola Griffith]], (born [[1960]])
: [[Eileen Gunn]], (born [[1945]])
: [[Barbara Hambly]], (born [[1951]])
: [[Elizabeth Hand]], (born [[1957]])
: [[Zenna Henderson]], ([[1917]]-[[1983]])
: [[Sonya Dorman Hess]], (born [[1924]])
: [[P. C. Hodgell]], (born [[1951]])
: [[Nalo Hopkinson]], (born [[1960]])
: [[Marie Jakober]], (born [[1941]])
: [[Gwyneth Jones]], (born [[1952]])
: [[Rosemary Kirstein]]
: [[Ellen Kushner]], (born [[1955]])
: [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], (born [[1929]])
: [[Tanith Lee]], (born [[1947]])
: [[Kelly Link]]
: [[Anna Livia]], (born [[1955]])
: [[Jane Loudon]], (born [[1802]]- [[18??]])
: [[Rosaleen Love]]
: [[Elizabeth A. Lynn]], (born [[1946]])
: [[Katherine MacLean]], (born [[1925]])
: [[Laurie J. Marks]]
: [[Maureen F. McHugh]], (born [[1959]])
: [[Vonda N. McIntyre]], (born [[1948]])
: [[Judith Merril]], ([[1923]]-[[1997]])
: [[Naomi Mitchison]], ([[1897]]-[[1999]])
: [[Elizabeth Moon]], (born [[1945]])
: [[C.L. Moore]], ([[1911]]-[[1987]])
: [[Pat Murphy]], (born [[1955]])
: [[E. Nesbit]]
: [[Alice Nunn]]
: [[Rebecca Ore]], (born [[1948]])
: [[Marge Piercy]], (born [[1936]])
: [[Doris Piserchia]], (born [[1928]])
: [[Kit Reed]], (born [[1932]])
: [[Joanna Russ]], (born [[1937]])
: [[Mary Doria Russell]], (born [[1950]])
: [[Margaret St. Clair]], ([[1911]]-[[1995]])
: [[Pamela Sargent]], (born [[1948]])
: [[Mary Shelley]], ([[1797]]-[[1851]])
: [[Delia Sherman]], (born [[1951]])
: [[Johanna Sinisalo]], (born [[1958]])
: [[Joan Slonczewski]], (born [[1956]])
: [[Stephanie A. Smith]]
: [[Nancy Springer]], (born [[1948]])
: [[Lucy Sussex]], (born [[1957]])
: [[Sheri S. Tepper]], (born [[1929]])
: [[James Tiptree, Jr]], ([[1915]]-[[1987]]) (Pseudonym of [[Alice Sheldon]])
: [[Lisa Tuttle]], (born [[1952]])
: [[Sydney J. Van Scyoc]], (born [[1939]])
: [[Joan D. Vinge]], (born [[1948]])
: [[Élisabeth Vonarburg]], (born [[1947]])
: [[Kate Wilhelm]], (born [[1928]])
: [[Connie Willis]], (born [[1945]])
: [[Terri Windling]], (born [[1958]])
: [[Monique Wittig]], ([[1935]]-[[2003]])
: [[Jane Yolen]], (born [[1939]])
: [[Sarah Zettel]], (born [[1966]])
: [[Pamela Zoline]], (born [[1941]])

Octavia E. Butler

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== '''Complete published works''' ==

'''Patternist'''
[[Wild Seed]] (1980)
[[Mind of My Mind]] (1977)
[[Patternmaster]] (1976)
[[Clay's Ark]] (1984)
[[Survivor]] (1978)

''Kindred'' (1979)

'''Xenogenesis Trilogy'''
[[Dawn]] (1987)
[[Adulthood Rites]] (1988)
[[Imago]] (1989)
trilogy republished in one volume as: ''Lilith's Brood'' (2000)

'''Parable'''
[[Parable of the Sower]] (1994)
[[Parable of the Talents]] (1998)

''Bloodchild and Other Stories'' (1995)
Preface, "Bloodchild" (1984); "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" (1987 / 1988); "Near of Kin" (1979); "Speech Sounds" (1983); "Crossover" (1971); and two essays: "Positive Obsession" (1989, as "Birth of a Writer"); "Furor Scribendi" (1993).

''Fledgling'' (2005)

Influential feminist SF books

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

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

*[[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]
**''[[The Mists of Avalon]]'', 1983

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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