Menstruation in SF
Stories Featuring or About Menstruation
- Suzy McKee Charnas. "Boobs" (Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine, 1989; Skin of the Soul, ed. Tuttle, 1990; Penguin book of Modern Fantasy by Women, ed. Williams, 1995)
- Stephen Dedman. "From Whom All Blessings Flow"
- Anita Diamant. 'The Red Tent'.
- Jan Dickson. "Moonshine Quartet." Women (Baltimore, Maryland), v. 5, no. 1 (1976) [lesbian protagonist]
- Katherine Forrest. "O Captain, My Captain" (1987) [menstrual blood vampire story]
- Judy Grahn. 'Mundane's World' (coming-of-age menstruation ritual)
- Barb Lakey or Barb Rausch. "Claire de Lune" (Wimmen's Comix #13, Supernatural Issue)
- Alan Moore. "Swamp Thing" from DC (included a story on fear of menstruation)
- Jody Scott. 'Passing for Human' (alien/vampire menstrual blood)
- Jody Scott. 'I Vampire' (alien/vampire menstrual blood; sequel)
- Theodore Sturgeon. "Some of Your Blood"
- Sheri S. Tepper. The Gate to Women's Country [in a sexist society, menstruating women are required to place a red flag on their doors ... menstruation isn't a major theme of the story, but this kind of menstrual signal appears in a lot of sexist societies]
- Connie Willis. "Even the Queen" (satirizes an anti-menstrual women's cycle)