List of works with gender role reversal

This is a list of works which explicitly reverse the gender roles for one or more significant aspects of society. See Gender role reversal

Works listed

• Catherine Asaro. The Last Hawk
• Katharine Burdekin, The End of This Day's Business
• Thomas Berger. Regiment of Women (Simon & Schuster, 1973). Anti-feminist blah-blah. You gotta feel sorry for guys like Berger, so obviously afraid of women. Where is Berger now? Anyway, this is a role reversal where the reader is intended to see the absurdity & pathos of a man dressing up & suffering sexual harassment etc. Somehow some very obvious points seem to have eluded Berger ... Oh well. This one is a little too long to be really amusing as an example of fear-of-feminism; the first chapter is fine & amusing, but then it keeps going on ... and on ... and on. Read it & weep, or spend your afternoon a lot more profitably with Gerd Brantenberg's Egalia's Daughters, which also covers role reversal from the perspective of a man, but who is a good writer, astute, observant, and funny to boot. -- lq, 6/11/00
• Marion Zimmer Bradley. The Ruins of Isis (1978) [a heterosexual couple of scholars from an interplanetary federation visit a matriarchal world ... ]
• Gerd Brantenberg's Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes (originally: Egalias døtre) (translated from Norwegian into English by Louis Mackay)
• Jayge Carr. Leviathan's Deep (1979)
• CJ Cherryh, The Pride of Chanur, Chanur's Venture, The Kif Strike Back, Chanur's Homecoming, Chanur's Legacy
  • To quote the author: "Hani are catlike, spacefaring, attitudinal, and protective of their violent and aggressive menfolk; and yes, I've made a little commentary on gender politics; but I've also tried to tell an honest, light, and rowdy story about very different aliens and a strayed human."
• Rokeya Sakhawat-Hossain. "Sultana's Dream" (1905) (a short story in which the Sultana visits Ladyland, where purdah has been reversed to the great benefit of the land)
• Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Matter of Seggri"
• Mack Reynolds. Amazon Planet (1975) (a man visits a planet, ostensibly run by women with a role reversal involving male harems (gynaeca))
• Sheri Tepper Six Moon Dance
• Richard Wilson. The Girls from Planet 5 (1955) [by 1998, women have taken over the government since the 80s, with Texas a masculine hold-out; when 6-foot tall, sexy alien girls come by with an unusual threat, it's men to the rescue. an ostensibly good-humored war-of-the-sexes story]
• Wen Spencer, A Brother's Price

Television examples

• Red Dwarf episode "Parallel Universe", where the all-male crew encounter their female opposites. (Except for the Cat, who is aghast that his opposite is a Dog.)