Intentional communities with gender separatism
This is a list of works featuring intentional communities designed along gender lines. The fictional communities themselves were planned. This is distinguished from worlds where gender division happened through disease or mishap. (See, e.g., Works featuring skewed gender ratios; works simply featuring matriarchies for whatever reason.) It is closely related to works featuring separatism, but some intentional communities designed along gender lines may not be separatist communities.
Works
- Elizabeth Bear, Carnival (planetary colony: female-planned society with some gender separatism; matriarchy. New Amazonia is a world designed (by women, presumably) to eliminate patriarchy.)
- David Brin, Glory Season (planetary colony: female-planned society with gender separatism to eliminate patriarchy)
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos (planetary colony: male-planned society with only men)
- A. Bertram Chandler, Spartan Planet (aka False Fatherland) and sequel, The Last Amazon (planetary colony: a male-only society in the first story; amazon separatists try to take it over in the second)
- Katherine Forrest, Daughters of a Coral Dawn and sequels (a race of superior earth-women / lesbians leave Earth & colonize a new world; no men allowed)
- Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, "Sultana's Dream" (1905) (women got men to go into purdah, and now women run Ladyland)
- Joan Slonczewski, A Door Into Ocean (planetary colony: female-planned society with only-female species)
- Norman Spinrad, A World Between (an all-male society and an all-female society meet)
- separatist societies within larger societies
- Amazons generally are intentionally separatist
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, Free Amazons of Darkover
- Sally Miller Gearhart, The Wanderground
- Diana Rivers, Hadra
- Jean Stewart, Isis series
- Sheri S. Tepper, The Gate to Women's Country (post-apocalyptic Earth: female-run society with gender separatism)
- John Varley's Gaean trilogy volumes 2 & 3 (Wizard and Demon) have a lesbian separatist society