Post-nuclear

Post-nuclear stories are a staple of SF. The setting accomplish multiple purposes and offers multiple advantages for feminist SF:

• patriarchy-bashing: evil patriarchies that destroyed the earth thru militarism, war, greed, lack of care about the environment, and so on
• reset: get rid of patriarchal society & invent an better society
• a believable apocalyptic event that sets the stage for a really dystopic society
• alien intervention!

Here follows a list of feminist and lesbian works set in a post-nuclear setting:

• The Wall, Marlen Haushofer
• A Gift Upon the Shore
• the Isis series by Jean Stewart
• Octavia Butler, Xenogenesis trilogy
• Joan Slonczewski, The Wall Around Eden
• Kim Stanley Robinson's California trilogy: three takes on what a post-nuclear southern California might look like