Index of themes

Reproduction, Sexuality, & Gender-Oriented Themes

• Gendered "Otherness" Experiences in the Body
• Sexuality, Reproduction, Family Arrangements

Gender & Society

• 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
• Dystopias & Utopias
• Sotto Voce Feminism: Assuming without Examining

Rewritings

• Retold Fairy-Tales, Myths, Folk-Tales

Character Oriented Lists

• The Super-Heroic Woman
• Reclaiming the Every-Day Heroic Women

Performing Gender

• The Body (body image, beauty standards; body modification; menstruation, pregnancy, nursing; Aging; sexuality)
• Linguistics, Language & Sexism (see, e.g., Names & Naming, per and Naming Conventions)
• Sex, Erotica, Romance

Gender & the Other

• Women and Nature, the Wild, Animals

Gender & the Self

• Madness & Insanity

References & External Links

• Imagined Sexual Futures by Dr. Elisa Kay Sparks
• Quick Lists: Themes, Characters, Genres, and "if you like..." Lists by Laura Quilter and others at feministsf.org
• Women's Rights and Women's Images in Science Fiction by Christine Alice Corcos
• James Tiptree, Jr. Award lists
• Science Fiction & Fantasy by Women
• Alternative Sexualities in Fantasy and SF Booklist by Mary Anne Mohanraj