List of female revolutionaries in SF
This page lists works about women changing the world ... women revolutionaries! OK, I don't include the standard saving-the-world-against-the-forces-of-great-evil motif from fantasy. We're talking changes in society, not just ridding the world of dark shadows and other semi-racist mythography. If they're outside agitators, grassroots organizers, or in other subversive ways, fomenting revolution and causing trouble, then you'll find 'em here! (You'll find more warrior women on the warrior women bibliography.)
- Zainab Amadahy's The Moons of Palmares
- Gertrude Atherton's The White Morning (1918) (German women plan a revolution)
- Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames (1982 film)
- Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower
- Jayge Carr. Leviathan's Deep (1979) (The book is not about revolution, although the protagonist ultimately becomes a revolutionary.)
- Flynn Connolly's The Rising of the Moon
- Zoë Fairbairns' Benefits
- Jane Fletcher. The World Celaeno Chose (1999, Dimsdale Press, London)
- Elizabeth Hand. Waking the Moon. (Illuminati-like secret society of mostly women has been plotting for centuries to resurrect the goddess ....)
- Ursula K. Le Guin's story of Odo (what was its name?)
- Gwen M'Clatchey. "Short Skirts and Patriarchs" in Dangerous Women edited by S. G. Johnson (lesbian terrorists)
- Sam Merwin. Sex War (1950s, I think) - A conspiracy of women to overturn the world, but in this novel the male protagonist (a world-class genius who is desired by all the sexy women, of course) triumphs and saves the world - maybe. (The notion of a secret society of women was handled much more interestingly by Fritz Lieber in Conjure Wife and Elizabeth Hand in Waking the Moon.)
- Pat Murphy's The City, Not Long After
- Cris Newport. The White Bones of Truth (Pride Pubctns, 1994)
Spoiler revolutionaries
- Xena: Warrior Princess, episode "The Black Wolf" (1x--)