Anthologies of SF with gender themes

This is the master-list of gender-oriented SF anthologies. This list includes all anthologies of fiction that have a gender or sexuality theme. The anthology theme may be either themes within the stories themselves (e.g., feminist perspectives, women characters, queer characters, a gender-specific or historically-gender-associated role) or thematic selection of works based on the author (e.g., works by women authors).

See also

• Anthologies of SF with gender themes
  • Anthologies of SF by women
    • Collections of fairy tales by women
  • Anthologies of SF with female protagonists
• Anthologies of SF with sex themes
• Anthologies of queer SF
• Anthologies of regional or ethnic SF with gender themes
• Series of sex- and gender-themed SF anthologies
• Anthologies of feminist SF studies

Critical anthologies

Critical anthologies for feminist SF studies include:

• Daughters of Earth (anthology) ed. by Justine Larbalestier
• Women of Wonder: The Classic Years ed. by Pamela Sargent
• Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years ed. by Pamela Sargent
• The James Tiptree, Jr. Award anthologies

Several good anthologies for supernatural fiction exist; consider:

• Daughters of the Moon
• Forbidden Journeys
• The Lifted Veil (aka The Penguin Book of Classic Fantasy by Women)
• What Did Miss Darrington See?

Anthologies of particular historical note include:

• Alien Sex
• Amazons!
• Sword and Sorceress
• Women of Wonder (the first)

A

• Alien Sex ed. by Ellen Datlow (1990)
• Aliene, amazzoni, astronaute ed. by Oriana Palusci (1990)
• Allskin ed. by Alexandra Büchler (1998)
• Amazons! ed. by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (1979)
• Amazons II ed. by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (1982)
• Ancient Enchantresses ed. by Kathleen M. Massie-Ferch, Martin H. Greenberg, and Richard Gilliam (1995)
• Angels of Power and Other Reproductive Creations ed. by Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein (1991)
• The Armless Maiden ed. by Terri Windling (1995)
• Arrows of Eros ed. by Alex Stewart (1989)
• Aurora: Beyond Equality ed. by Vonda N. McIntyre and Susan Janice Anderson (1976)

B

• Beautiful Angiola: The Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach gathered, written, and commented by Laura Gonzenbach; translated by Jack Zipes
• Bending the Landscape: Original Gay and Lesbian: Fantasy ed. by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (1997)
• Bending the Landscape: Original Gay and Lesbian Writing: Science Fiction ed. by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (1998)
• Bending the Landscape: Original Gay and Lesbian Writing: Horror ed. by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (2001)
• Blood Sisters: Lesbian Vampire Tales ed. by Cece Ross (2006)

C

• Cassandra Rising ed. by Alice Laurance (1978)
• The Chick Is in the Mail ed. by Esther M. Friesner (2000)
• Chicks 'n Chained Males ed. by Esther M. Friesner (1999)
• Chicks in Chainmail ed. by Esther M. Friesner (1995)
• Chicks Kick Butt ed. by Kerrie Hughes and Rachel Caine (2011)
• Cinderella on the Ball from Attic Press (date?)
• A Circle of Witches ed. by Peter Haining (1971)
• The Cold Embrace ed. by Alex Hamilton (1967)
• Cybersex: Aliens, Neurosex and Cyborgasms ed. by Richard Glyn Jones (1996)

D

• Dangerous Women ed. by S. G. Johnson (1994)
• Daring to Dream ed. by Carol Farley Kessler (1984 1st ed.; 1995 2nd ed.)
• Dark Angels: Lesbian Vampire Stories ed. by Pam Keesey (1995)
• Dark Seductions: Tales of Erotic Horror ed. by Alice Alfonsi and John Scognamiglio (1993)
• Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories ed. by Pam Keesey (1993)
• Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century ed. by Justine Larbalestier (2006)
• Daughters of the Moon: Witch Tales from Around the World ed. by Shahrukh Husain (1995)
• Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind ed. by Jen Green and Sarah Lefanu (1985)
• Did You Say Chicks?! ed. by Esther M. Friesner (1998)
• Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England ed. by Jack Zipes (1986)
• Don't Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear ed. by Jody Lynn Nye (1996)
• Dreams in a Minor Key: Tales of Magic Realism by Women ed. by Susanna Sturgis (1991)
• Dying for It ed. by Gardner Dozois (1997)

E

• Embracing the Dark: Tales of Gay and Lesbian Horror ed. by Eric Garber (1991)
• Eros in Orbit ed. by Joseph Elder (1973)
• The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories - see Millennial Women (1978) ed. by Virginia Kidd

F

• Fantastic Women: 18 Tales of the Surreal and the Sublime from Tin House edited by Rob Spillman (2011)
• Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters ed. by Kathleen Ragan (1998)
• Femmes au Futur ed. by Marianne Leconte (1976)
• Flying Cups and Saucers ed. by Debbie Notkin & the Secret Feminist Cabal (1998)
• Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers (ed. by Nina Auerbach and U.C. Knoepflmacher (1992)
• Free Amazons of Darkover ed. by Marion Zimmer Bradley and the Friends of Darkover (1985)
• The Future Is Queer: A Science Fiction Anthology ed. by Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel (2006)
• Futurelove: A Science Fiction Triad by Anne McCaffrey, John H. Holly, and Jeffrey Carver (1977)

G

• The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies, ed. Peter Haining (1967)
• The Ghost of Carmen Miranda and Other Spooky Gay and Lesbian Tales ed. by Scott Brassart and Julie K. Trevelyan (1998)
• Ghostly Gentlewomen ed. by Seon Manley and Gogo Lewis (1977)
• Girls' Night Out: Twenty-Nine Female Vampire Stories ed. by Martin H. Greenberg (1997)
• Girls to the Rescue ed. by Bruce Lansky

H

• Hags, Sirens, & Other Bad Girls of Fantasy ed. by Denise Little (2006)
• Handsome Heroines: Women as Men in Folklore - see Women Who Wear the Breeches ed. by Shahrukh Husain (1995)
• Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories ed. by Catherine Lundoff (2008)
• Haunted Women: The Best Supernatural Tales by American Women Writers ed. by Alfred Bendixen (1987)
• Haunting Women ed. by Alan Ryan (1988)
• Hear the Silence: Stories by Women of Myth, Magic and Renewal ed. by Irene Zahava (1986)
• Hecate's Cauldron ed. by Susan M. Shwartz (1982)
• Hellebore and Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic edited by Catherine Lundoff and JoSelle Vanderhooft (2011)
• Hot Blood series of erotic horror anthologies: Hot Blood, Hotter Blood: More Tales of Erotic Horror, etc.
• Hotter Blood: More Tales of Erotic Horror edited by Michael Garrett and Jeff Gelb (1991)

J

• The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1: Sex, the Future, & Chocolate Chip Cookies, edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (2005)
• The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2, edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (2006)
• The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3, edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (2007)
• The James Tiptree Award Anthology 4

K

• Killing Me Softly: Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love ed. by Gardner Dozois (1995) ("a hauntingly seductive collection by today's most daring authors")
• Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction Stories, edited by Jeffrey M. Elliot (1984)

L

• Ladies of the Gothics edited by Seon Manley and Gogo Lewis (1975)
• Ladies of Horror edited by Seon Manley and Gogo Lewis (1971)
• Lethal Kisses ed. by Ellen Datlow (1996)
• Letters from Home edited by Sarah Lefanu (1989)
• The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women, 1800 - World War II, edited by A. Susan Williams (1992)
• Little Deaths ed. by Ellen Datlow (1994)

M

• Mad & Bad Fairies - Attic Press (1987; 1990)
• The Magic Within ed. by Emily Alward, Diane Holmes, Alicia Rasley (1994)
• The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World ed. by Ethel Johnston Phelps (1981)
• Maiden, Matron, Crone ed. by Kerrie Hughes and Martin H. Greenberg (2005)
• The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women ed. by Stephen Jones (2002)
• Marriage and the Family Through Science Fiction ed. by Val Clear, Patricia Warrick, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander (1976)
• Memories and Visions: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction ed. by Susanna J. Sturgis (1989)
• Men Writing Science Fiction as Women, ed. by Mike Resnick (YEAR)
• Millennial Women: Tales for Tomorrow ed. by Virginia Kidd (1978) [aka The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories]
• Mistresses of the Dark edited by Stefan R Dziemianowicz, Denise Little and Robert E Weinberg (1998)
• More Women of Wonder ed. by Pamela Sargent (1976)
• Ms. Muffet and Others from Attic Press

N

• New Amazons ed. by Margaret Weis (2000)
• New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow edited by Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (1994)
• The New Women of Wonder: Recent Science Fiction Stories by Women About Women ed. by Pamela Sargent (1978)
• Night Bites: Vampire Stories by Women - Tales of Blood and Lust ed. by Victoria A. Brownworth (1996)
• Night Shade: Gothic Tales by Women ed. by Victoria A. Brownworth and Judith A. Redding (1999)
• Not of Woman Born ed. by Constance Ash (1999)

O

• Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex ed. by Ellen Datlow (1996)
• The Old Wives' Book of Fairy Tales ed. by Angela Carter (2000) - See The Virago Book of Fairy Tales
• Once Upon a Time ed. by Michael Ford (1996)

P

• The Penguin Book of Classic Fantasy by Women: see The Lifted Veil ed. by A. Susan Williams (1992)
• The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women ed. by A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones (1991)

Q

• The Queen's Mirror: Fairy Tales by German Women, 1780-1900, ed. and transl. by Shawn C. Jarvis and Jeannine Blackwell (2001)

R

• Rapunzel's Revenge by Attic Press
• Rapunzel's Revenge: More Feminist Fairytales by Attic Press (1995)
• Renunciates of Darkover ed. by Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Friends of Darkover (1991)
• Restless Spirits: Ghost Stories by American Women, 1872-1926 ed. by Catherine A. Laudie (1997)
• Ride on Rapunzel from Attic Press (1992)
• The Robber with a Witch's Head: More Stories from the Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach / by Laura Gonzenbach; edited and translated by Jack Zipes

S

• SCI-FI Womanthology edited by Pam Keesey and Forrest J. Ackerman (2000)
• The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales edited by Angela Carter (1992)
• Secret Weavers: Stories of the Fantastic by Women of Argentina and Chile edited by Marjorie Agosin (1992)
• She's Fantastical edited by Lucy Sussex and Judith Raphael Buckrich (1995)
• Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers ed. by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (HarperPrism 1998; Avon 2002)
• Sisters in Fantasy edited by Susan Shwartz and Martin H. Greenberg (1995)
• Sisters in Fantasy 2 edited by Susan Shwartz and Martin H. Greenberg (1996)
• Sisters of the Night edited by Barbara Hambly and Martin H. Greenberg (1995)
• Sisters of Sorcery edited by Seon Manley and Gogo Lewis (1976)
• Skin of the Soul edited by Lisa Tuttle (1990)
• Sleeping Beauty, Indeed, and Other Lesbian Fairytales edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft (2009)
• So Fey: Queer Faery Fiction ed. by Steve Berman (2007)
• Space of Her Own: Twenty Outstanding Science Fiction Stories by Women Writers edited by Shawna McCarthy (1983)
• Space Sirens: Full-Throttle Space Tales #2 ed. by Carol Hightshoe (2009)
• Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories ed. by JoSelle Vanderhooft (2010)
• Steam-Powered 2: More Lesbian Steampunk Stories ed. by JoSelle Vanderhooft (2011)
• Strange Bedfellows ed. by Thomas N. Scortia (1972)
• Sweeping Beauties
• Sword and Sorceress (#1) (1984)
• Sword and Sorceress 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
• Swords of the Rainbow edited by Eric Garber and Jewelle Gomez (1996)

T

• Tales of Magic Realism by Women: Dreams in a Minor Key ed. by Susanna Sturgis (1991)
• Tangle Girls edited by Nicole Kimberling (2009)
• Things Invisible to See: Gay and Lesbian Tales of Magic Realism, ed. by Lawrence Schimel (1998)
• Through Other Eyes: Animal Stories by Women ed. by Irene Zahava (1988)
• Turn the Other Chick ed. by Esther M. Friesner (2004)

V

• Victorian Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers ed. by Richard Dalby
• The Venus Factor edited by Vic Ghidalia and Roger Elwood (1972)
• The Virago Book of Fairy Tales edited by Angela Carter (1990)
• The Virago Book of Ghost Stories edited by Richard Dalby (1987)
• The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: Vol. 2 The 20th Century edited by Richard Dalby (1991)
• The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories edited by Richard Dalby (1988)
• The Virago Book of Witches edited by Shahrukh Husain (1993)

W

• Warrior Enchantresses edited by Kathleen M. Massie-Ferch and Martin H. Greenberg (1996)
• Warrior Princesses edited by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough and Martin H. Greenberg (1998)
• What Did Miss Darrington See? An Anthology of Feminist Supernatural Fiction (1989)
• Whedonistas: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Deborah Stanish (2011)
• When Women Rule ed. by Sam Moskowitz (1972) (anthology about matriarchies; most told from other perspective, however)
• Wise Women: Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World retold and ed. by Suzanne I. Barchers (1997)
• Witches Brew: Horror and Supernatural Stories by Women ed. by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini (1984)
• Woman Space: Future and Fantasy: Stories and Art by Women ed. by The New Victoria Collective (1981)
• A Woman's Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women ed. by Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (2001)
• Women of Darkness ed. by Kathryn Ptacek (1988)
• Women of Darkness 2 ed. by Kathryn Ptacek (1990)
• Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism ed. by Helen Merrick and Tess Williams (1999)
• Women at War ed. by Lois McMaster Bujold and Roland J. Green (1995)
• Women of War ed. by Tanya Huff and Alexander Potter (2005)
• Women Who Run With the Werewolves: Tales of Blood, Lust and Metamorphosis ed. by Pam Keesey (1996)
• The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction ed. by Susanna Sturgis (1990)
• Women Who Wear the Breeches ed. by Shahrukh Husain (YEAR)
• Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Stories by Women about Women ed. by Pamela Sargent (1974)
• Women of Wonder, The Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s ed. by Pamela Sargent (1995)
• Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s ed. by Pamela Sargent (1995)
• Women Writing Science Fiction as Men ed. by Mike Resnick (2003)
• Womenfolk and Fairy Tales ed. by Rosemary Minard (1975)
• Women's Fantastic Adventures : Stories ed. by Brigitte Scheer-Schäzler (1992)
• The Women's Press Book of New Myth and Magic ed. by Helen Windrath (1993)
• Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. by Camilla Decarnin, Eric Garber, and Lyn Paleo (1986)

See also

• Category:Anthologies
• List of sexuality themed SF anthologies
• List of queer SF anthologies

References

• Copied from http://feministsf.org/anths/ (2007/2/28)