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Coming of the Patriarchy

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A number of writers have explored themes relating to a pre-Christian or prehistoric goddess-worshipping time, and the decay or attack by patriarchal societies.

* [[Gael Baudino]], [[Strands of Starlight]] and sequels
* Marion Zimmer Bradley [[The Mists of Avalon]] and sequels
* Marie Jakober [[Even the Stones]] (formerly ''High Kamilan'')
* Marie Jakober [[The Black Chalice]]
* Mary Mackey [[The Year the Horses Came]] (1993)

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Separatist societies

2006-06-24T05:24:45Z

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Genders live apart, with little intermingling or only at fixed times.

* Eleanor Arnason. [[A Woman of the Iron People]] and [[Ring of Swords]] (1993)
* Joanna Russ. [[The Female Man]]
* Sheri S. Tepper. [[The Gate to Women's Country]]
* Sheri S. Tepper. [[A Plague of Angels]] (1993) (one community has men and women living separately)

Plus see all the stories in which the [[Gender Ratios|gender ratios]] are skewed.

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Separatist societies

2006-06-24T05:24:18Z

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Skewed gender ratios in SF

2006-06-24T05:20:38Z

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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 ...

* [[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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Parodies and retellings

2006-06-24T05:19:27Z

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Retelling stories is a common way for critics to make a critical point about a work. The commentary might be humorous, as in a humorous parody; critical, as in a work that demonstrates the earlier work's failings of writing or perspective; or exploratory, as in a work that explores new dimensions and resonances of an early story.

Examples are particularly common within science fiction and fantasy, but have also been common outside of sf.

* [[The Wizard of Oz]] ... [[Gregory Maguire]]'s [[Wicked]] and [[Geoff Ryman]]'s [[Was]]
* [[The Hobbit]] ... [[Pat Murphy]]'s [[There and Back Again]]

* numerous fairy tales & myths & folktales, including the King Arthur stories recycled by [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] as [[The Mists of Avalon]], which set off a veritable storm of retellings; [[Pygmalion]] and [[Galatea]] story which has been retold many, many times, including in feminist sf [[Amy Thomson]]'s [[Virtual Girl]]. Another landmark book: [[Ellen Datlow]] and [[Terri Windling]]'s [[Snow White, Blood Red]]. To some extent, all retellings are reappropriations of myths, old or new; without a certain mythic status in a culture, there would be no point in retelling a work.
** [[The Snow Queen]] ... Joan Vinge's The Snow Queen
** Sleeping Beauty ... [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s [[The Gates of Sleep]], [[Sheri S. Tepper]]'s [[Beauty]]...
** Helen of Troy / Iphigenia / Cassandra - Helen of Troy in "Helen Remembers the Stork Club" by Esther M. Friesner; whole saga in Sheri S. Tepper's [[The Gates to Women's Country]]
** Bluebeard -
** The Robber Bride / [[The Robber Bride]] by [[Margaret Atwood]]
** Peter Pan - "[[Lost Girls]]" by [[Pat Cadigan]] (1993)
** swans - Peg Kerr, "The Wild Swans" (1999)
** deerskin - Robin McKinley, ''Deerskin'' (1993)

Some non-SF examples:
* Gone With the Wind ... Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone
* Lolita ... Lo's Diary
* Jane Eyre ... The Wide Sargasso Sea

See [[:category:Mythological Female Characters|Mythological Female Characters]]

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Women and madness in SF

2006-06-24T05:17:57Z

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* [[Lois McMaster Bujold]] - ''[[The Curse of Chalion]]'' and ''[[Paladin of Souls]]''
* [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]] - "[[The Yellow Wallpaper]]"
* [[Justine Larbalestier]] - "Magic or Madness Trilogy"
* [[Norma Marden]] - [[An Eye for Dark Places]] (1993)
* [[Marge Piercy]] - ''[[Woman on the Edge of Time]]''
* [[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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Parodies and retellings

2006-06-24T05:16:37Z

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Retelling stories is a common way for critics to make a critical point about a work. The commentary might be humorous, as in a humorous parody; critical, as in a work that demonstrates the earlier work's failings of writing or perspective; or exploratory, as in a work that explores new dimensions and resonances of an early story.

Examples are particularly common within science fiction and fantasy, but have also been common outside of sf.

* [[The Wizard of Oz]] ... [[Gregory Maguire]]'s [[Wicked]] and [[Geoff Ryman]]'s [[Was]]
* [[The Hobbit]] ... [[Pat Murphy]]'s [[There and Back Again]]

* numerous fairy tales & myths & folktales, including the King Arthur stories recycled by [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] as [[The Mists of Avalon]], which set off a veritable storm of retellings; [[Pygmalion]] and [[Galatea]] story which has been retold many, many times, including in feminist sf [[Amy Thomson]]'s [[Virtual Girl]]. Another landmark book: [[Ellen Datlow]] and [[Terri Windling]]'s [[Snow White, Blood Red]]. To some extent, all retellings are reappropriations of myths, old or new; without a certain mythic status in a culture, there would be no point in retelling a work.
** [[The Snow Queen]] ... Joan Vinge's The Snow Queen
** Sleeping Beauty ... [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s [[The Gates of Sleep]], [[Sheri S. Tepper]]'s [[Beauty]]...
** Helen of Troy / Iphigenia / Cassandra - Helen of Troy in "Helen Remembers the Stork Club" by Esther M. Friesner; whole saga in Sheri S. Tepper's [[The Gates to Women's Country]]
** Bluebeard -
** The Robber Bride / [[The Robber Bride]] by [[Margaret Atwood]]
** Peter Pan - "[[Lost Girls]]" by [[Pat Cadigan]] (1993)
** swans - Peg Kerr, "The Wild Swans" (1999)

Some non-SF examples:
* Gone With the Wind ... Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone
* Lolita ... Lo's Diary
* Jane Eyre ... The Wide Sargasso Sea

See [[:category:Mythological Female Characters|Mythological Female Characters]]

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Virginia Hamilton

2006-06-24T05:13:40Z

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==Bibliography==

* [[Justice and Her Brothers]] (1978)

[[category:Writers|Hamilton, Virginia]]

Virginia Hamilton

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Abortion in SF

2006-06-24T05:11:28Z

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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)
* 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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Sex-changing societies or species

2006-06-24T05:10:39Z

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Some stories imagine societies in which people can change gender freely back and forth at will, or with some effort or particular phases. Another model imagines gender in phases, with little or no ability to switch back and forth.

==Frequent Sex Changing==

* Ursula K. Le Guin, [[Left Hand of Darkness]] - characters are neuter until they enter [[kemmer]]; then, they shift into either male or female mode
* Tanith Lee
* [[Ian McDonald]], "Some Strange Desire" (in ''The Best of Omni III'') (a gender-switching race lives among us)
* John Varley's universe (people can change gender pretty easily)
* [[The X-Files]] episode "[[GenderBender (episode)|GenderBender]]" (episode 13, Season 1) (a species of aliens can change gender; most seem to change gender not that often, but one murderous member of the group changes gender after intercourse)

==Life Cycle Gender==

Societies in which people choose or are fixed into one gender or another, often at adolescence; or a novel in which an individual is forced to choose one or another.

* Gardner, James. Commitment Hour [children switch back and forth between male and female until 21, when they must choose one or the other; a rare discriminated-against few choose a third sex, described as neuter or hermaphroditic]
* Gentle, Mary. Golden Witchbreed (1983) [children are gender neuter]
* Gilman, Carolyn Ives. Halfway Human [children are neuter until adolescence; then they became male, female or neuter]
* David Gerrold. ''Moonstar Odyssey'' (1977) (children are neuter until adolescence)
* McIntyre, Vonda N. "Wings" in The Alien Condition, edited by Stephen Goldin (New York: Ballantine, 1973) [children are gender-neutral and choose at puberty]

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Neuter and androgynous species in SF

2006-06-24T05:09:37Z

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Stories where either the whole species is neuter; there is a neuter sex; or members of the species pass thru a neuter phase

* [[Mary Gentle]]'s [[Golden Witchbreed]] (1983) (children are neuter)
* [[David Gerrold]]'s [[Moonstar Odyssey]] (1977) (children are neuter)
* [[Carolyn Ives Gilman]]'s [[Halfway Human]] (children are neuter until adolescence, and then become male, female, or neuter]]
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s [[Left Hand of Darkness]] (people are neuter unless in [[kemmer]])
* [[R. M. Meluch]]'s [[Wind Child]] (1982) (an androgyne character)
* [[Theodore Sturgeon]]'s [[Venus Plus X]] (1960) (an entire species appears to be neuter)

==Other Possibilities==

* Bilker, Harvey L. "Genetic Faux Pas" in Thomas N. Scortia's Strange Bedfellows (1972)
* Delany, Samuel. "Aye, and Gomorrah ... " (first published in Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison, 1967).

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Index of themes

2006-06-24T05:08:36Z

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=='''Reproduction, Sexuality, & Gender-Oriented Themes'''==
* [[Gendered "Otherness" Experiences in the Body]]
* [[Sexuality, Reproduction, Family Arrangements]]

===Aspects of Reproduction===

* [[Menstruation]]
* [[Abortion]]
* [[Birth Control]]
* [[Childbirth, Labor, Delivery]]
* [[Breastfeeding, Nursing, Breast Milk]]
* [[Infertility & Sterility]]
* ''see [[The Body]]''

===Methods of Reproduction===
* [[Parthenogenesis]]
* [[Reproduction sans Men]]
* [[Three-Way Sexual Reproduction]]

===Social Aspects of Reproduction===
* [[Surrogacy]]
* [[Family Arrangements]]
* [[Adoption & Fostering]]

===Gender & Sex===
* [[Three-Way Sexual Reproduction]] seems to usually involve a third sex/gender
* [[Neuter & Androgynes]]
* [[Hermaphrodites & Intersexed]]
* [[Sex-Changing Societies or Species]]
* [[Individual Ability to Change Sex]]
* [[Transgendered Characters]]
* [[Gender Ambiguity]] - one or more characters in a story is gender-ambiguous (usually on purpose by the author)
* [[Gendered "Otherness" Experiences in the Body]]
* [[Other Gender Stories]]

===Sexuality, Preferences, Orientations, & Behaviors===
* [[Feminist SF Erotica]]
* [[Lesbian Romances]]
* [[Situational Lesbianism]]
* [[Same-Sex Sexuality]]

=='''Gender & Society'''==
* Gender Role Reversal
* [[Gender Ratios]] - women-only worlds, men-only worlds, scarcity of a sex
* [[Separatism]] - sexes living apart
* [[Matriarchies]]
* [[Patriarchies]]
* [[Sex Wars]]
* [[Coming of the Patriarchy]]
* [[Women's vs. Men's Magic/Technology/Skills]]
* [[Dystopia|Dystopias]] & [[Utopia|Utopias]]
* Sotto Voce Feminism: Assuming without Examining

=='''Rewritings'''==
* [[Retellings|Retold Fairy-Tales, Myths, Folk-Tales]]

=='''Character Oriented Lists'''==
* The Super-Heroic Woman
* Reclaiming the Every-Day Heroic Women

=='''Performing Gender'''==
* [[The Body]] (body image, beauty standards; body modification; menstruation, pregnancy, nursing; [[Aging]]; sexuality)
* [[:category:Linguistics|Linguistics]], Language & Sexism (see, e.g., [[:category:Names & Naming|Names & Naming]], [[per]] and [[Naming Conventions]])
* Sex, Erotica, Romance

=='''Gender & the Other'''==
* Women and Nature, the Wild, Animals

=='''Gender & the Self'''==
* Madness & Insanity

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==References & External Links==

* [http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/sffem.html Imagined Sexual Futures] by Dr. Elisa Kay Sparks
* [http://feministsf.org/bibs/ Quick Lists: Themes, Characters, Genres, and "if you like..." Lists] by Laura Quilter and others at feministsf.org
* [http://www.law.indiana.edu/fcrc/bibliographies/corcos.html Women's Rights and Women's Images in Science Fiction] by Christine Alice Corcos
* [http://tiptree.org/ James Tiptree, Jr. Award] lists
* [http://www.lunacat.net/books/index.htm Science Fiction & Fantasy by Women]
* [http://www.mamohanraj.com/balist.html Alternative Sexualities in Fantasy and SF Booklist] by Mary Anne Mohanraj

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Index of themes

2006-06-24T05:07:48Z

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=='''Reproduction, Sexuality, & Gender-Oriented Themes'''==
* [[Gendered "Otherness" Experiences in the Body]]
* [[Sexuality, Reproduction, Family Arrangements]]

===Aspects of Reproduction===

* [[Menstruation]]
* [[Abortion]]
* [[Birth Control]]
* [[Childbirth, Labor, Delivery]]
* [[Breastfeeding, Nursing, Breast Milk]]
* [[Infertility & Sterility]]
* ''see [[The Body]]''

===Methods of Reproduction===
* [[Parthenogenesis]]
* [[Reproduction sans Men]]
* [[Three-Way Sexual Reproduction]]

===Social Aspects of Reproduction===
* [[Surrogacy]]
* [[Family Arrangements]]
* [[Adoption & Fostering]]

===Gender & Sex===
* [[Three-Way Sexual Reproduction]] seems to usually involve a third sex/gender
* [[Neuter & Androgynes]]
* [[Hermaphrodites & Intersexed]]
* [[Sex-Changing Societies or Species]]
* [[Individual Ability to Change Sex]]
* [[Transgendered Characters]]
* [[Gender Ambiguity]] - one or more characters in a story is gender-ambiguous (usually on purpose by the author)
* [[Gendered "Otherness" Experiences in the Body]]
* [[Other Gender Stories]]

===Sexuality, Preferences, Orientations, & Behaviors===
* [[Feminist SF Erotica]]
* [[Lesbian Romances]]
* [[Situational Lesbianism]]
* [[Same-Sex Sexuality]]

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[[category:Themes]]

'''Gender & Society'''
* Gender Role Reversal
* [[Gender Ratios]] - women-only worlds, men-only worlds, scarcity of a sex
* [[Separatism]] - sexes living apart
* [[Matriarchies]]
* [[Patriarchies]]
* [[Sex Wars]]
* [[Coming of the Patriarchy]]
* [[Women's vs. Men's Magic/Technology/Skills]]
* [[Dystopia|Dystopias]] & [[Utopia|Utopias]]
* Sotto Voce Feminism: Assuming without Examining

'''Rewritings'''
* [[Retellings|Retold Fairy-Tales, Myths, Folk-Tales]]

'''Character Oriented Lists'''
* The Super-Heroic Woman
* Reclaiming the Every-Day Heroic Women

'''Performing Gender'''
* [[The Body]] (body image, beauty standards; body modification; menstruation, pregnancy, nursing; [[Aging]]; sexuality)
* [[:category:Linguistics|Linguistics]], Language & Sexism (see, e.g., [[:category:Names & Naming|Names & Naming]], [[per]] and [[Naming Conventions]])
* Sex, Erotica, Romance

'''Gender & the Other'''
* Women and Nature, the Wild, Animals

'''Gender & the Self'''
* Madness & Insanity

==References & External Links==

* [http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/sffem.html Imagined Sexual Futures] by Dr. Elisa Kay Sparks
* [http://feministsf.org/bibs/ Quick Lists: Themes, Characters, Genres, and "if you like..." Lists] by Laura Quilter and others at feministsf.org
* [http://www.law.indiana.edu/fcrc/bibliographies/corcos.html Women's Rights and Women's Images in Science Fiction] by Christine Alice Corcos
* [http://tiptree.org/ James Tiptree, Jr. Award] lists
* [http://www.lunacat.net/books/index.htm Science Fiction & Fantasy by Women]
* [http://www.mamohanraj.com/balist.html Alternative Sexualities in Fantasy and SF Booklist] by Mary Anne Mohanraj

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Skewed gender ratios in SF

2006-06-24T05:05:21Z

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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 Main (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)

* [[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 ...

* [[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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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) 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 ...

* [[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 ...

* [[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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Wen Spencer

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'''[[Ukiah Oregon Series]]'''
* [[Alien Taste]] (2001)
* [[Tainted Trail]] (2002)
* [[Bitter Waters]] (2003)
* [[Dog Warrior]] (2004)

* [[Tinker]] (2003)
* [[A Brother's Price]] (2005)

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List of passing women and women in drag in SF

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The female character has some compelling reason to live as a male, often to avoid physical danger while traveling, or to take advantage of greater adventure or job opportunities. This is a particularly common way for [[YA fiction]] to explore gender issues. "Passing women" have shown up in plenty of non-SF works as well, again, particularly in YA fiction. "[[Passing women]]" are part of a broader phenomena of, usually, members of discriminated-against classes "[[passing]]" themselves as members of the privileged classes. Examples:

* [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]], [[Hawkmistress!]] (1982) (girl disguises herself as boy and passes for male)
* [[Louise Marley]], [[The Terrorists of Irustan]] (1999)
* [[Maureen McHugh]], [[Mission Child]] (woman lives and passes as man)
* [[Tamora Pierce]], [[Alanna: The First Adventure]] (girl disguises herself as boy in order to get education as a knight)

''See [[Gendered "Otherness" Experiences in the Body]]''

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List of passing women and women in drag in SF

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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" between characters, magical transformations, or characters -- often female -- who live and pass as male. Characters may also have "souls" or "spirits" that multiply inhabit the same body, in both science fiction and fantasy.

Some examples:

==="Passing women" and girls ===
The female character has some compelling reason to live as a male, often to avoid physical danger while traveling, or to take advantage of greater adventure or job opportunities. This is a particularly common way for [[YA fiction]] to explore gender issues. "Passing women" have shown up in plenty of non-SF works as well, again, particularly in YA fiction. "[[Passing women]]" are part of a broader phenomena of, usually, members of discriminated-against classes "[[passing]]" themselves as members of the privileged classes. 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)
* [[Tamora Pierce]], [[Alanna: The First Adventure]] (girl disguises herself as boy in order to get education as a knight)

''See [[Transvestites, Drag Queens, Passing Women]]''

===Sex changes, body swaps, soul migrations ===
Focusing on one character who changes their sex, takes over or incarnates into a different sexed body, or swaps bodies with another character, lets the author explore otherness. In the gender context, can provide opportunities for humor and political commentary as psychically "other" characters attempt to adjust to the gender expectations and norms for their new body-gender. Also inherently explores the question of the essentiality of gender and whether it resides in the body or the "soul", or both.

Some authors have also used frequent sex changes as a way of de-essentializing gender or showing that it is No Big Deal; for example, by showing multiple reincarnations across gender, or simple and ubiquitous sex-change technology.

Examples:

* [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s [[A Civil Campaign]] ([[1999]]) (a minor female character undergoes a sex change in order to get around [[primogeniture]])
* [[Angela Carter]]'s [[The Passion of New Eve]]
* [[Samuel R. Delany]]'s [[Triton]]
* "Switch", by Blake Edwards (a man is "punished" for his sexist ways when he dies by coming back as a woman; he redeems his evil ways by dying in childbirth)
* [[Lynn Flewelling]], [[The Bone Doll's Twin]] and [[Hidden Warrior]]
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]], [[I Will Fear No Evil]] (man's brain in woman's body)
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], [[The Left Hand of Darkness]] (classic gender-exploration novel; the world is peopled with hermaphrodites who phase in and out of male or female genders ("[[kemmer]]"); in a later short story, Le Guin explored the differences in sexual experiences across the genders)
* [[Kim Stanley Robinson]], [[The Years of Rice and Salt]] (2002) (reincarnation across multiple genders; some demonstration of sexism in society, but the characters' spiritual essence appears to be genderless)
* [[Geoff Ryman]], [[The Warrior Who Carried Life]] (magical transformation of female to male body)
* [[Thorne Smith]], [[Turnabout]] ([[1931]]) (an early instance of body swapping in literature; probably the thematic inspiration for mostly non-sexual "Freaky Friday" type body swapping films)
* [[Virginia Woolf]], [[Orlando]] ([[1928]]) (and see [[Sally Potter]]'s film adaptation, ([[1993]]))
* Charlotte Perkins Gilmore, 'Turning'; short story about a wife magically transferred into her husband's body, experiencing the freedom of male dress and petty sexisms.

====Technology makes changing sex easy, and fun, too====
* [[Iain M. Banks|Iain M. Banks's]] "Culture" universe, notably ''[[The Player of Games]]''
* [[Tanith Lee]], ''[[Drinking Sapphire Wine]]'' and ''[[Don't Bite the Sun]]''
* [[John Varley|John Varley's]] "Eight Worlds" universe, particularly ''[[Steel Beach]]'' and ''[[The Golden Globe]]''

===Multiple psyches/souls inhabiting the same body===
A special instance of soul migrations etc., but the dual (or multiple) inhabitance in the same body permits the author to engage characters in cross-gender dialogue; verbalize their gender dysphoria; comment on the other person's experience or their own experience of the other person's body; show blended gendered experiences (as in sudden [[bisexual|bisexuality]])
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]], [[I Will Fear No Evil]]
* [[Tanya Huff]], [[Quarters Series]]
* [[Matt Ruff]], [[Set This House in Order]]

See also [[gender]], [[sex]], [[transgender]], [[transsexual]], [[cross-dressing]], [[hermaphroditism]], [[intersex]], [[neuter]], [[sexuality]]

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Women's magic

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* [[Barbara Hambly]], [[Sisters of the Raven]] and sequels
* [[Elizabeth Hand]], [[Waking the Moon]]
* [[Marie Jakober]], [[Even the Stones]]
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], the [[Earthsea]] cycle

'''See also'''
* goddess worship
* Gaea
* [[Women's vs. Men's Magic in Fantasy (WisCon 30 Panel)]]

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Women's magic

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* [[Barbara Hambly]], [[Sisters of the Raven]] and sequels
* [[Marie Jakober]], [[Even the Stones]]
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], the [[Earthsea]] cycle

'''See also'''
* goddess worship
* Gaea
* [[Women's vs. Men's Magic in Fantasy (WisCon 30 Panel)]]

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Women's magic

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* [[Barbara Hambly]], [[Sisters of the Raven]] and sequels
* [[Marie Jakober]], [[Even the Stones]]
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], the [[Earthsea]] cycle

'''See also goddess worship & Gaea'''
* [[Women's vs. Men's Magic in Fantasy (WisCon 30 Panel)]]

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Women's magic

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Women's magic

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* [[Barbara Hambly]], [[Sisters of the Raven]] and sequels
* [[Marie Jakober]], [[Even the Stones]]
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], the [[Earthsea]] cycle

'''See also goddess worship & Gaea'''

Index of themes

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'''Reproduction, Sexuality, & Gender-Oriented Themes'''
* [[Gendered "Otherness" Experiences in the Body]]
* [[Sexuality, Reproduction, Family Arrangements]]

'''Gender & Society'''
* Gender Role Reversal
* [[Gender Ratios]] - women-only worlds, men-only worlds, scarcity of a sex
* [[Separatism]] - sexes living apart
* [[Matriarchies]]
* [[Patriarchies]]
* [[Sex Wars]]
* [[Coming of the Patriarchy]]
* [[Women's vs. Men's Magic/Technology/Skills]]
* [[Dystopia|Dystopias]] & [[Utopia|Utopias]]
* Sotto Voce Feminism: Assuming without Examining

'''Rewritings'''
* [[Retellings|Retold Fairy-Tales, Myths, Folk-Tales]]

'''Character Oriented Lists'''
* The Super-Heroic Woman
* Reclaiming the Every-Day Heroic Women

'''Performing Gender'''
* [[The Body]] (body image, beauty standards; body modification; menstruation, pregnancy, nursing; [[Aging]]; sexuality)
* [[:category:Linguistics|Linguistics]], Language & Sexism (see, e.g., [[:category:Names & Naming|Names & Naming]], [[per]] and [[Naming Conventions]])
* Sex, Erotica, Romance

'''Gender & the Other'''
* Women and Nature, the Wild, Animals

'''Gender & the Self'''
* Madness & Insanity

==References & External Links==

* [http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/sffem.html Imagined Sexual Futures] by Dr. Elisa Kay Sparks
* [http://feministsf.org/bibs/ Quick Lists: Themes, Characters, Genres, and "if you like..." Lists] by Laura Quilter and others at feministsf.org
* [http://www.law.indiana.edu/fcrc/bibliographies/corcos.html Women's Rights and Women's Images in Science Fiction] by Christine Alice Corcos
* [http://tiptree.org/ James Tiptree, Jr. Award] lists
* [http://www.lunacat.net/books/index.htm Science Fiction & Fantasy by Women]
* [http://www.mamohanraj.com/balist.html Alternative Sexualities in Fantasy and SF Booklist] by Mary Anne Mohanraj

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Index of themes

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'''Reproduction, Sexuality, & Gender-Oriented Themes'''
* [[Gendered "Otherness" Experiences in the Body]]
* [[Sexuality, Reproduction, Family Arrangements]]

'''Gender & Society'''
* Gender Role Reversal
* [[Gender Ratios]] - women-only worlds, men-only worlds, scarcity of a sex
* [[Separatism]] - sexes living apart
* [[Matriarchies]]
* [[Patriarchies]]
* [[Sex Wars]]
* [[Coming of the Patriarchy]]
* [[Dystopia|Dystopias]] & [[Utopia|Utopias]]
* Sotto Voce Feminism: Assuming without Examining

'''Rewritings'''
* [[Retellings|Retold Fairy-Tales, Myths, Folk-Tales]]

'''Character Oriented Lists'''
* The Super-Heroic Woman
* Reclaiming the Every-Day Heroic Women

'''Performing Gender'''
* [[The Body]] (body image, beauty standards; body modification; menstruation, pregnancy, nursing; [[Aging]]; sexuality)
* [[:category:Linguistics|Linguistics]], Language & Sexism (see, e.g., [[:category:Names & Naming|Names & Naming]], [[per]] and [[Naming Conventions]])
* Sex, Erotica, Romance

'''Gender & the Other'''
* Women and Nature, the Wild, Animals

'''Gender & the Self'''
* Madness & Insanity

==References & External Links==

* [http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/sffem.html Imagined Sexual Futures] by Dr. Elisa Kay Sparks
* [http://feministsf.org/bibs/ Quick Lists: Themes, Characters, Genres, and "if you like..." Lists] by Laura Quilter and others at feministsf.org
* [http://www.law.indiana.edu/fcrc/bibliographies/corcos.html Women's Rights and Women's Images in Science Fiction] by Christine Alice Corcos
* [http://tiptree.org/ James Tiptree, Jr. Award] lists
* [http://www.lunacat.net/books/index.htm Science Fiction & Fantasy by Women]
* [http://www.mamohanraj.com/balist.html Alternative Sexualities in Fantasy and SF Booklist] by Mary Anne Mohanraj

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Eleanor Arnason

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'''Eleanor A. Arnason''' (born [[1942]]) is an [[United States|American]] author of [[science fiction]] [[novel]]s and [[short stories]]. Her work often depicts cultural change and conflict, usually from the viewpoint of characters who cannot or will not live by their own societies' rules. This anthropological focus has led many to compare her fiction to that of [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]. She has won the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]] and the [[Mythopoeic Awards|Mythopoeic Award]] (both for ''[[A Woman of the Iron People]]''), the [[Spectrum Award]] (for "Dapple") and the [[Homer Award|HOMer Award]] (for "Stellar Harvest"). She lives in [[Minnesota]].

==Bibliography==
===Novels===
*''[[The Sword Smith]]'' ([[1978]])
*''[[To the Resurrection Station]]'' ([[1986]])
*''[[Daughter of the Bear King]]'' ([[1987]])
*''[[A Woman of the Iron People]]'' ([[1991]])
*''[[Ring of Swords]]'' ([[1993]])

===Short Story Collections===
*''[[Ordinary People: A Collection]]'' (2005)

===Short stories===
'''Hwarhath stories'''
*"The Hound of Merin" ([[1993]])
*"The Lovers" ([[1994]])
*"The Semen Thief" ([[1994]])
*"The Small Black Box of Morality" ([[1996]])
*"The Gauze Banner" ([[1998]])
*"Feeding the Mother: A Hwarhath Religious Anecdote" ([[1998]])
*"Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance" ([[1999]])
*"The Actors" ([[1999]])
*"Origin Story" ([[2000]])
*"The Potter of Bones" ([[2002]])
*"The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance" ([[2004]])

'''Lydia Duluth stories'''
*"Stellar Harvest" ([[1999]])
*"The Cloud Man" ([[2000]])
*"Lifeline" ([[2001]])
*"Moby Quilt" ([[2001]])

'''Selected other stories'''
*"The Warlord of Saturn's Moons" ([[1974]])
*"The Dog's Story" ([[1996]])
*"The Grammarian's Five Daughters" ([[1999]])
*"Knapsack Poems" ([[2002]])

==External links==
*[http://freesfonline.de/authors/arnason.html Eleanor Arnason's online fiction] at [http://freesfonline.de/ Free Speculative Fiction Online]
*[http://www.tc.umn.edu/%7Ed-lena/Eleanor%20&%20trog.html Eleanor Arnason website]

==Categories & Tags==

[[Category:1942 Births|Arnason, Eleanor Atwood]]
[[Category:American science fiction writers|Arnason, Eleanor Atwood]]
[[Category:Living people|Arnason, Eleanor Atwood]]
[[category:Female Writers|Arnason, Eleanor]]
[[category:Tiptree Award Winning Authors|Arnason, Eleanor]]

Molly Gloss

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==Bibliography==

* [[The Dazzle of Day]] (1997)

[[category:Tiptree Award Winning Writers|Gloss, Molly]]

Greer Ilene Gilman

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Stella Atrium

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==Bibliography==

* [[Goulep]] (1997/98)

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Gertrude Atherton

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Gertrude Franklin Atherton.

October 30, 1857 - June 14, 1948.

[[category:1857 Births|Atherton, Gertrude]]
[[category:1948 Deaths|Atherton, Gertrude]]
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Coming of the Patriarchy

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Index of themes

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'''Reproduction, Sexuality, & Gender-Oriented Themes'''
* [[Gendered "Otherness" Experiences in the Body]]
* [[Sexuality, Reproduction, Family Arrangements]]

'''Gender & Society'''
* Gender Role Reversal
* [[Gender Ratios]] - women-only worlds, men-only worlds, scarcity of a sex
* [[Separatism]] - sexes living apart
* [[Matriarchies]]
* [[Patriarchies]]
* [[Sex Wars]]
* [[Coming of the Patriarchy]]
* [[Dystopia|Dystopias]] & [[Utopia|Utopias]]
* Sotto Voce Feminism: Assuming without Examining

'''Rewritings'''
* [[Retellings|Retold Fairy-Tales, Myths, Folk-Tales]]

'''Character Oriented Lists'''
* The Super-Heroic Woman
* Reclaiming the Every-Day Heroic Women

'''Performing Gender'''
* [[The Body]] (body image, beauty standards; body modification; menstruation, pregnancy, nursing; [[Aging]]; sexuality)
* Language & Sexism (see, e.g., [[per]] and [[Naming Conventions]])
* Sex, Erotica, Romance

'''Gender & the Other'''
* Women and Nature, the Wild, Animals

'''Gender & the Self'''
* Madness & Insanity

==References & External Links==

* [http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/sffem.html Imagined Sexual Futures] by Dr. Elisa Kay Sparks
* [http://feministsf.org/bibs/ Quick Lists: Themes, Characters, Genres, and "if you like..." Lists] by Laura Quilter and others at feministsf.org
* [http://www.law.indiana.edu/fcrc/bibliographies/corcos.html Women's Rights and Women's Images in Science Fiction] by Christine Alice Corcos
* [http://tiptree.org/ James Tiptree, Jr. Award] lists
* [http://www.lunacat.net/books/index.htm Science Fiction & Fantasy by Women]
* [http://www.mamohanraj.com/balist.html Alternative Sexualities in Fantasy and SF Booklist] by Mary Anne Mohanraj

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Mary Mackey

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==Bibliography==

* [[The Year the Horses Came]] (1993)

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Rosaleen Love

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==Bibliography==

* [[Evolution Annie and Other Stories]] (1993) (collection)

[[category:1940 Births|Love, Rosaleen]]
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Rosaleen Love

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==Bibliography==

* [[Evolution Annie and Other Stories]] (1993) (collection)

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Kij Johnson

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==Bibliography==

* "Schrödinger's Cathouse" in ''Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (1993)

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Colin Greenland

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==Bibliography==

* [[Harm's Way]] (1993)

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M.J. Engh

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==Bibliography==

* [[The Rainbow Man]] (1993)

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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)
* [[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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Parodies and retellings

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Retelling stories is a common way for critics to make a critical point about a work. The commentary might be humorous, as in a humorous parody; critical, as in a work that demonstrates the earlier work's failings of writing or perspective; or exploratory, as in a work that explores new dimensions and resonances of an early story.

Examples are particularly common within science fiction and fantasy, but have also been common outside of sf.

* [[The Wizard of Oz]] ... [[Gregory Maguire]]'s [[Wicked]] and [[Geoff Ryman]]'s [[Was]]
* [[The Hobbit]] ... [[Pat Murphy]]'s [[There and Back Again]]

* numerous fairy tales & myths & folktales, including the King Arthur stories recycled by [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] as [[The Mists of Avalon]], which set off a veritable storm of retellings; [[Pygmalion]] and [[Galatea]] story which has been retold many, many times, including in feminist sf [[Amy Thomson]]'s [[Virtual Girl]]. Another landmark book: [[Ellen Datlow]] and [[Terri Windling]]'s [[Snow White, Blood Red]]. To some extent, all retellings are reappropriations of myths, old or new; without a certain mythic status in a culture, there would be no point in retelling a work.
** [[The Snow Queen]] ... Joan Vinge's The Snow Queen
** Sleeping Beauty ... [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s [[The Gates of Sleep]], [[Sheri S. Tepper]]'s [[Beauty]]...
** Helen of Troy / Iphigenia / Cassandra - Helen of Troy in "Helen Remembers the Stork Club" by Esther M. Friesner; whole saga in Sheri S. Tepper's [[The Gates to Women's Country]]
** Bluebeard -
** The Robber Bride / [[The Robber Bride]] by [[Margaret Atwood]]
** Peter Pan - "[[Lost Girls]]" by [[Pat Cadigan]] (1993)

Some non-SF examples:
* Gone With the Wind ... Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone
* Lolita ... Lo's Diary
* Jane Eyre ... The Wide Sargasso Sea

See [[:category:Mythological Female Characters|Mythological Female Characters]]

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David Brin

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Author of ''[[Glory Season]]'', which he had reportedly hoped would win the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]].

==Setting==

Planet [[Stratos]]

==Intertextual References==

''Glory Season'''s towns and people have feminist sf homage names, such as "Herlandia" and "Ursulaburg", and "Vondaites", "Tiamatians", and "Perkites".

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David Brin

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Author of ''[[Glory Season]]'', which he had reportedly hoped would win the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]].

==Intertextual References==

''Glory Season'''s towns and people have feminist sf homage names, such as "Herlandia" and "Ursulaburg", and "Vondaites", "Tiamatians", and "Perkites".

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Sex-changing societies or species

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Some stories imagine societies in which people can change gender freely back and forth at will, or with some effort or particular phases. Another model imagines gender in phases, with little or no ability to switch back and forth.

==Frequent Sex Changing==

* Ursula K. Le Guin, [[Left Hand of Darkness]] - characters are neuter until they enter [[kemmer]]; then, they shift into either male or female mode
* Tanith Lee
* [[Ian McDonald]], "Some Strange Desire" (in ''The Best of Omni III'') (a gender-switching race lives among us)
* John Varley's universe (people can change gender pretty easily)
* [[The X-Files]] episode "[[GenderBender (episode)|GenderBender]]" (episode 13, Season 1) (a species of aliens can change gender; most seem to change gender not that often, but one murderous member of the group changes gender after intercourse)

==Life Cycle Gender==

Societies in which people choose or are fixed into one gender or another, often at adolescence; or a novel in which an individual is forced to choose one or another.

* Gardner, James. Commitment Hour [children switch back and forth between male and female until 21, when they must choose one or the other; a rare discriminated-against few choose a third sex, described as neuter or hermaphroditic]
* Gentle, Mary. Golden Witchbreed (1983) [children are gender neuter]
* Gilman, Carolyn Ives. Halfway Human [children are neuter until adolescence; then they became male, female or neuter]
* McIntyre, Vonda N. "Wings" in The Alien Condition, edited by Stephen Goldin (New York: Ballantine, 1973) [children are gender-neutral and choose at puberty]

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Index to sex, gender, sexuality, and reproduction

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==Aspects of Reproduction==

* [[Menstruation]]
* [[Abortion]]
* [[Birth Control]]
* [[Childbirth, Labor, Delivery]]
* [[Breastfeeding, Nursing, Breast Milk]]
* [[Infertility & Sterility]]
* ''see [[The Body]]''

===Methods of Reproduction===
* [[Parthenogenesis]]
* [[Reproduction sans Men]]
* [[Three-Way Sexual Reproduction]]

===Social Aspects of Reproduction===
* [[Surrogacy]]
* [[Family Arrangements]]
* [[Adoption & Fostering]]

==Gender & Sex==
* [[Three-Way Sexual Reproduction]] seems to usually involve a third sex/gender
* [[Neuter & Androgynes]]
* [[Hermaphrodites & Intersexed]]
* [[Sex-Changing Societies or Species]]
* [[Individual Ability to Change Sex]]
* [[Transgendered Characters]]
* [[Gender Ambiguity]] - one or more characters in a story is gender-ambiguous (usually on purpose by the author)
* [[Gendered "Otherness" Experiences in the Body]]
* [[Other Gender Stories]]

==Sexuality, Preferences, Orientations, & Behaviors==
* [[Feminist SF Erotica]]
* [[Lesbian Romances]]
* [[Situational Lesbianism]]
* [[Same-Sex Sexuality]]

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Index of themes

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'''Reproduction, Sexuality, & Gender-Oriented Themes'''
* [[Gendered "Otherness" Experiences in the Body]]
* [[Sexuality, Reproduction, Family Arrangements]]

'''Gender & Society'''
* Gender Role Reversal
* [[Gender Ratios]] - women-only worlds, men-only worlds, scarcity of a sex
* [[Separatism]] - sexes living apart
* [[Dystopia|Dystopias]] & [[Utopia|Utopias]]
* Sotto Voce Feminism: Assuming without Examining

'''Rewritings'''
* [[Retellings|Retold Fairy-Tales, Myths, Folk-Tales]]

'''Character Oriented Lists'''
* The Super-Heroic Woman
* Reclaiming the Every-Day Heroic Women

'''Performing Gender'''
* [[The Body]] (body image, beauty standards; body modification; menstruation, pregnancy, nursing; [[Aging]]; sexuality)
* Language & Sexism (see, e.g., [[per]] and [[Naming Conventions]])
* Sex, Erotica, Romance

'''Gender & the Other'''
* Women and Nature, the Wild, Animals

'''Gender & the Self'''
* Madness & Insanity

==References & External Links==

* [http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/sffem.html Imagined Sexual Futures] by Dr. Elisa Kay Sparks
* [http://feministsf.org/bibs/ Quick Lists: Themes, Characters, Genres, and "if you like..." Lists] by Laura Quilter and others at feministsf.org
* [http://www.law.indiana.edu/fcrc/bibliographies/corcos.html Women's Rights and Women's Images in Science Fiction] by Christine Alice Corcos
* [http://tiptree.org/ James Tiptree, Jr. Award] lists
* [http://www.lunacat.net/books/index.htm Science Fiction & Fantasy by Women]
* [http://www.mamohanraj.com/balist.html Alternative Sexualities in Fantasy and SF Booklist] by Mary Anne Mohanraj

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Gender Biases (TorCon 3 Panel)

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Gender Biases Among SF Magazine Editors, Publishers and Reviewers

==Panelists==
Gordon van Gelder, Stephen M. Stirling, Scott Edelman, Karen Traviss

[[category:TorCon 3 Panels]]
[[category:Sexism in SF Industry]]

Feminist SF Wiki - User contributions [en]

Other gender stories

Coming of the Patriarchy

Separatist societies

Separatist societies

Skewed gender ratios in SF

Parodies and retellings

Women and madness in SF

Parodies and retellings

Virginia Hamilton

Virginia Hamilton

Abortion in SF

Sex-changing societies or species

Neuter and androgynous species in SF

Index of themes

Index of themes

Skewed gender ratios in SF

Skewed gender ratios in SF

Wen Spencer

List of passing women and women in drag in SF

List of passing women and women in drag in SF

Gendered "Otherness" Experiences in the Body

Women's magic

Women's magic

Women's magic

Women's magic

Women's magic

Index of themes

Index of themes

Eleanor Arnason

Molly Gloss

Greer Ilene Gilman

Stella Atrium

Gertrude Atherton

Coming of the Patriarchy

Index of themes

Mary Mackey

Rosaleen Love

Rosaleen Love

Kij Johnson

Colin Greenland

M.J. Engh

Abortion in SF

Parodies and retellings

David Brin

David Brin

Sex-changing societies or species

Other gender stories

Index to sex, gender, sexuality, and reproduction

Index of themes

Gender Biases (TorCon 3 Panel)