Violence and feminist SF

Feminists may have a wide variety of views towards violence, and feminist SF likewise may represent various views towards violence. For instance:

• feminist pacifists see a relationship between feminism and pacifism, and hold that violence is inherently anti-feminist; some feminists see violence as inherently male, either biologically or culturally.
  • Sally Miller Gearhart's The Wanderground imagines a utopia, contrasting the non-violent, spiritual female inhabitants with the violent male patriarchal denizens of the dystopian cities.
  • Sheri S. Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country imagines a dystopic future, in which women have determined that masculine violence is threatening to the survival of humanity and that it is, moreover, biologically based, and can be bred out.

• power feminists or equality feminists might see violence as part of the human condition, and that women are as susceptible or prone to it as men.
  • Nicola Griffith's Ammonite asks what would happen to a world with only women on it, and discovers that it would have power-seeking, violent people, just as bi-sexed worlds