Menstruation in SF

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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)
  • Lakey, Barb, or Rausch, Barb. "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 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)