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


===Aspects of reproduction===
* [[Menstruation]]
* [[Abortion]]
* [[Birth control]]
* [[Childbirth, Labor, Delivery]]
* [[Breastfeeding, Nursing, Breast Milk]]
* [[Infertility & Sterility]]
* ''see [[The Body]]''


'''Gender & Society'''
===Methods of reproduction===
* Gender Role Reversal
* [[Parthenogenesis]]
* [[Gender Ratios]] - women-only worlds, men-only worlds, scarcity of a sex
* [[Reproduction sans Men]]
* [[Separatism]] - sexes living apart
* [[Three-Way Sexual Reproduction]]
* [[Dystopia|Dystopias]] & [[Utopia|Utopias]]
: Sotto Voce Feminism: Assuming without Examining


===Social aspects of reproduction===
* [[Surrogacy]]
* [[Family Arrangements]]
* [[Adoption & Fostering]]


'''Rewritings'''
===Gender and sex===
: [[Retellings|Retold Fairy-Tales, Myths, Folk-Tales]]
* [[Three-Way Sexual Reproduction]] seems to usually involve a third sex/gender
 
* [[Neuter & Androgynes]]
 
* [[Hermaphrodites & Intersexed]]
'''Character Oriented Lists'''
* [[Sex-Changing Societies or Species]]
: The Super-Heroic Woman
* [[Individual Ability to Change Sex]]
: Reclaiming the Every-Day Heroic Women
* [[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]]
'''Performing Gender'''
* [[Other Gender Stories]]
: [[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


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


==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]]


==Rewritings, herstory, and telling untold stories==
* [[Retellings|Retold Fairy-Tales, Myths, Folk-Tales]]


==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


==References & External Links==
==Gender and the Self==
* Madness & Insanity


==References ==
* [http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/sffem.html Imagined Sexual Futures] by Dr. Elisa Kay Sparks
* [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://feministsf.org/bibs/ Quick Lists: Themes, Characters, Genres, and "if you like..." Lists] by Laura Quilter and others at feministsf.org
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* [http://www.lunacat.net/books/index.htm Science Fiction & Fantasy by Women]
* [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
* [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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[[Category:Indexes]]

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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