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* Series run-dates: ?  
* Series run-dates: ?  


==Mission==
==Mission / About==
"The Women's Press science fiction series features new titles by contemporary writers and reprints of classic works by well known authors. Our aim is to publish science fiction by women and about women; to present exciting and provocative feminist images of the future that will offer an alternative vision of science and technology, and challenge male domination of the science fiction tradition itself.
: '''Mission''': "The Women's Press science fiction series features new titles by contemporary writers and reprints of classic works by well known authors. Our aim is to publish science fiction by women and about women; to present exciting and provocative feminist images of the future that will offer an alternative vision of science and technology, and challenge male domination of the science fiction tradition itself.


"We hope that the series will encourage more women both to read and write science fiction, and give the traditional science fiction readership a new and stimulating perspective."
: "We hope that the series will encourage more women both to read and write science fiction, and give the traditional science fiction readership a new and stimulating perspective."


They have published a number of SF works without any indication on the work itself of belonging to the "science fiction series"; e.g., [[Rosaleen Love]]'s collection ''[[Evolution Annie and Other Stories]]''; [[Sandi Hall]]'s ''[[The Godmothers]]'' (labeled on the front, however, "A Science Fiction Novel"); [[Suniti Namjoshi]]'s ''[[The Mothers of Maya Diip]]''.
==Publications==
* [[Octavia E. Butler]], ''[[Kindred]]''
* [[Octavia E. Butler]], ''[[Parable of the Sower]]''
* [[Octavia E. Butler]], ''[[Parable of the Talents]]''


Others published by the Women's Press that need verification as to whether they were SF series or not:
* [[Candas Jane Dorsey]], ''[[Machine Sex]]''
* [[Rosaleen Love]], ''[[The Total Devotion Machine]]''


==Publications==
* [[Suzy McKee Charnas]], ''[[Walk to the End of the World]]/[[Motherlines]]''
* [[Octavia E. Butler]], ''[[Kindred]]''
* [[Suzy McKee Charnas]], ''[[The Vampire Tapestry]]''
* [[Suzy McKee Charnas]], ''[[The Furies]]''




* [[Emily Devenport]], ''[[Shade]]''
* [[Esmé Dodderidge]], ''[[The New Gulliver|The New Gulliver, or The Adventures of Lemuel Gulliver Jr in Capovolta]]''
* [[Esmé Dodderidge]], ''[[The New Gulliver|The New Gulliver, or The Adventures of Lemuel Gulliver Jr in Capovolta]]''
* [[Marcia Douglas]], ''[[Madam Fate]]''




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* [[Margaret Elphinstone]], ''[[The Incomer]]''
* [[Margaret Elphinstone]], ''[[The Incomer]]''
* [[Carol Emshwiller]], ''[[Carmen Dog]]''
* [[Carol Emshwiller]], ''[[Carmen Dog]]''
* [[Carol Emshwiller]], ''[[The Start of the End of it All and Other Stories]]''
* [[Katherine V. Forrest]], ''[[Daughters of a Coral Dawn]]''
* [[Karen Joy Fowler]], [[Pat Cadigan]] and [[Pat Murphy]], ''[[Letters from Home]]''




* [[Sally Miller Gearhart]], ''[[The Wanderground]]''
* [[Sally Miller Gearhart]], ''[[The Wanderground]]''
* [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]], ''[[Herland]]''
* [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]], ''[[Herland]]''
* [[Patricia Grace]], ''[[The Sky People]]''
* [[Patricia Grace]], ''[[Baby No-Eyes]]''
* [[Jen Green]] and [[Sarah Lefanu]], eds., ''[[Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind]]''
* [[Jen Green]] and [[Sarah Lefanu]], eds., ''[[Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind]]''




* [[Tanith Lee]], ''[[Women as Demons]]''
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], ''[[The Language of the Night]]''
* [[Tanith Lee]], ''[[Women as Demons (collection)|Women as Demons: The Male Perception of Women Through Space and Time]]''
* [[Sarah Lefanu]], ''[[In the Chinks of the World Machine|In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction]]''
* [[Rhoda Lerman]], ''[[The Book of the Night]]''
* [[Rhoda Lerman]], ''[[The Book of the Night]]''




* [[Melisa Michaels]], ''[[Skirmish]]''
* [[Lorna Mitchell]], ''[[The Revolution of Saint Jone]]''
* [[Lorna Mitchell]], ''[[The Revolution of Saint Jone]]''
* [[Naomi Mitchison]], ''[[Memoirs of a Spacewoman]]''
* [[Naomi Mitchison]], ''[[Memoirs of a Spacewoman]]''
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* [[Jane Palmer]], ''[[The Planet Dweller]]''
* [[Jane Palmer]], ''[[The Planet Dweller]]''
* [[Jane Palmer]], ''[[The Watcher]]''
* [[Jane Palmer]], ''[[The Watcher]]''
* [[Jane Palmer]], ''[[Moving Moosevan]]''
* [[Marge Piercy]], ''[[Woman on the Edge of Time]]''
* [[Marge Piercy]], ''[[Woman on the Edge of Time]]''
* [[Doris Piserchia]], ''[[Star Rider]]''
* [[Doris Piserchia]], ''[[Star Rider]]''
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* [[Joanna Russ]], ''[[The Female Man]]''
* [[Joanna Russ]], ''[[The Female Man]]''
* [[Joanna Russ]], ''[[Extra(Ordinary) People]]''
* [[Joanna Russ]], ''[[Extra(Ordinary) People]]''
* [[Joanna Russ]], ''[[How to Suppress Women's Writing]]''
* [[Joanna Russ]], ''[[On Strike Against God]]''
* [[Joanna Russ]], ''[[The Two of Them]]''
* [[Joanna Russ]], ''[[The Two of Them]]''
* [[Joanna Russ]], ''[[We Who Are About To...]]''
* [[Joanna Russ]], ''[[We Who Are About To...]]''
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* [[Jody Scott]], ''[[I, Vampire]]''
* [[Jody Scott]], ''[[I, Vampire]]''
* [[Joan Slonczewski]], ''[[A Door Into Ocean]]''
* [[Joan Slonczewski]], ''[[A Door Into Ocean]]''
* [[Joan Slonczewski]], ''[[The Wall Around Eden]]''




* [[Melanie Tem]], ''[[Blood Moon]]''
* [[Sue Thomas]], ''[[Correspondence]]''
* [[Lisa Tuttle]], ''[[A Spaceship Built of Stone and Other Stories]]''
* [[Lisa Tuttle]], ''[[A Spaceship Built of Stone and Other Stories]]''
* [[Lisa Tuttle]] ed., ''[[Skin of the Soul: New Horror Stories by Women]]''
* [[Élisabeth Vonarburg]], ''[[The Silent City]]''


* [[Vema Willis]], ''[[Two Old Women]]''
* [[Charlotte Watson Sherman]], ''[[One Dark Body]]''
* [[Jess Wells]], ''[[Aftershocks]]''
* [[Helen Windrath]] ed., ''[[The Women's Press Book of New Myth and Magic]]''




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* [[Sandi Hall]], ''[[The Godmothers]]'' (labeled on the front "A Science Fiction Novel")
* [[Sandi Hall]], ''[[The Godmothers]]'' (labeled on the front "A Science Fiction Novel")
* [[Rosaleen Love]], ''[[Evolution Annie and Other Stories]]''
* [[Rosaleen Love]], ''[[Evolution Annie and Other Stories]]''
* [[Rosaleen Love]], ''[[The Total Devotion Machine]]'' (labeled on the front with a big "SF" though)
* [[Suniti Namjoshi]], ''[[The Mothers of Maya Diip]]''
* [[Suniti Namjoshi]], ''[[The Mothers of Maya Diip]]''
* [[Monique Wittig]], ''[[Across the Acheron]]''
* [[Monique Wittig]], ''[[Across the Acheron]]''
* [[Pamela Zoline]], ''[[The Heat Death of the Universe (collection)|Busy About the Tree of Life and Other Stories]]''


==References==
==References==
* Information taken from Women's Press edition of [[Joanna Russ]]' ''[[The Hidden Side of the Moon]]
* Information taken from Women's Press edition of [[Joanna Russ]]' ''[[The Hidden Side of the Moon]]
* [[Liz Henry]], [http://blogs.feministsf.net/?p=871 FSFblog] (2008)


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Latest revision as of 04:42, 15 June 2011

The Women's Press science fiction series is a series of titles published by The Women's Press.

  • Series Editor: ?
  • Series run-dates: ?

Mission / About

Mission: "The Women's Press science fiction series features new titles by contemporary writers and reprints of classic works by well known authors. Our aim is to publish science fiction by women and about women; to present exciting and provocative feminist images of the future that will offer an alternative vision of science and technology, and challenge male domination of the science fiction tradition itself.
"We hope that the series will encourage more women both to read and write science fiction, and give the traditional science fiction readership a new and stimulating perspective."

Publications















Women's Press works that are also SF; need to verify whether published as part of the SF series

References

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