Anthologies with female protagonists

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See also

• Anthologies of SF with gender themes
  • Anthologies of SF by women
    • Collections of fairy tales by women
  • Anthologies of SF with female protagonists
• Anthologies of SF with sex themes
• Anthologies of queer SF
• Anthologies of regional or ethnic SF with gender themes
• Series of sex- and gender-themed SF anthologies
• Anthologies of feminist SF studies

This is a list of anthologies that are thematically centered around female protagonists (or other major female characters).

• Amazons! edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• Amazons II edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• Ancient Enchantresses
• The Chick Is in the Mail edited by Esther M. Friesner
• Chicks 'n Chained Males edited by Esther M. Friesner
• Chicks in Chainmail edited by Esther M. Friesner
• Cinderella on the Ball
• Dangerous Women
• Dark Angels edited by Pamela Keesey
• Daughters of Darkness edited by Pamela Keesey
• Daughters of the Moon
• Did You Say Chicks?! edited by Esther M. Friesner
• Don't Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear
• Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters
• Free Amazons of Darkover
• Girls' Night Out
• Girls to the Rescue
• Hags, Sirens, and Other Bad Girls of Fantasy
• Hecate's Cauldron ed. by Susan M. Shwartz
• Hellebore and Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic edited by Catherine Lundoff and JoSelle Vanderhooft (2011)
• Maiden, Matron, Crone
• Millennial Women (aka The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories]])
• More Women of Wonder edited by Pamela Sargent
• New Amazons
• New Eves
• The New Women of Wonder edited by Pamela Sargent
• Renunciates of Darkover
• Sisters of the Night
• Sleeping Beauty, Indeed, and Other Lesbian Fairytales edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft (2009)
• Space Sirens (Full Throttle Space Tales #2 ed. by Carol Hightshoe)
• Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories ed. by JoSelle Vanderhooft (2010)
• Steam-Powered 2: More Lesbian Steampunk Stories ed. by JoSelle Vanderhooft (2011)
• Sword and Sorceress (all the series; original volumes edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley)
• Tangle Girls edited by Nicole Kimberling (2009)
• Turn the Other Chick edited by Esther M. Friesner
• The Virago Book of Witches ed. by Shahrukh Husain (1993)
• Warrior Enchantresses
• Warrior Princesses
• When Women Rule ed. by Sam Moskowitz (1972) (anthology about matriarchies; most told from other perspective, however)
• Wise Women: Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World retold and ed. by Suzanne I. Barchers (1997)
• A Woman's Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women ed. by Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (2001)
• Women at War
• Women of War
• Women Who Run With the Werewolves edited by Pamela Keesey
• Women Who Wear the Breeches ed. by Shahrukh Husain
• Women of Wonder edited by Pamela Sargent
• Women of Wonder, The Classic Years edited by Pamela Sargent
• Women of Wonder, The Contemporary Years edited by Pamela Sargent
• Womenfolk and Fairy Tales