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: Gender Role Reversal
==Reproduction, sexuality, and gender-oriented themes==
: Elimination or Minimization of a Gender
* [[Gendered "Otherness" Experiences in the Body]]
: Dystopia
* [[Sexuality, Reproduction, Family Arrangements]]
: [[Utopia]]


: [[Gendered "Otherness" Experiences in the Body]]
===Aspects of reproduction===
: Sexuality, Reproduction, Family Arrangements
* [[Menstruation]]
* [[Abortion]]
* [[Birth control]]
* [[Childbirth, Labor, Delivery]]
* [[Breastfeeding, Nursing, Breast Milk]]
* [[Infertility & Sterility]]
* ''see [[The Body]]''


: [[Retellings|Retold Fairy-Tales, Myths, Folk-Tales]]
===Methods of reproduction===
* [[Parthenogenesis]]
* [[Reproduction sans Men]]
* [[Three-Way Sexual Reproduction]]


: The Super-Heroic Woman
===Social aspects of reproduction===
: Reclaiming the Every-Day Heroic Women
* [[Surrogacy]]
* [[Family Arrangements]]
* [[Adoption & Fostering]]


: The Body
===Gender and 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]]


: Women and ...
===Sexuality, preferences, orientations, and behaviors===
* [[Feminist SF Erotica]]
* [[Lesbian Romances]]
* [[Works featuring situational homosexuality]]
* [[Same-Sex Sexuality]]


: Sotto Voce Feminism: Assuming without Examining
==Gender and society==
* [[List of works with 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
* [[Women and war]]


: Women and Nature, the Wild, Animals
==Rewritings, herstory, and telling untold stories==
* [[Retellings|Retold Fairy-Tales, Myths, Folk-Tales]]


: Language & Sexism (see, e.g., [[per]])
==Characterization==
* ''See [[:category:Characterization|Characterization]]
* [[Character]]
* [[Encyclopedia of female characters]]
* The Super-Heroic Woman
* Reclaiming the Every-Day Heroic Women
 
==Gender, the body, and social performance==
* [[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 and the Other==
* Women and Nature, the Wild, Animals
 
==Gender and the Self==
* Madness & Insanity
 
==References ==
* [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
 
===General works on SF themes===
* Thomas Clareson. ''Many Futures, Many Worlds: Theme and Form in Science Fiction.'' (1977)
 
 
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Latest revision as of 18:05, 15 April 2008

Reproduction, sexuality, and gender-oriented themes

Aspects of reproduction

Methods of reproduction

Social aspects of reproduction

Gender and sex

Sexuality, preferences, orientations, and behaviors

Gender and society

Rewritings, herstory, and telling untold stories

Characterization

Gender, the body, and social performance

Gender and the Other

  • Women and Nature, the Wild, Animals

Gender and the Self

  • Madness & Insanity

References

General works on SF themes

  • Thomas Clareson. Many Futures, Many Worlds: Theme and Form in Science Fiction. (1977)
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