Women in Science Fiction : Biblio of Imagined Sexual Futures

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Female-Dominated Societies | Women Only Worlds

Feminist Dystopias | Feminist/ Egalitarian Utopias

Multi-World Comparisons | Feminine Magic Vs. Masculine Science

Andogynous or Sex-Changing Species and Individuals

Sex-Exchange

Anthologies

FDS's: FEMALE DOMINATED SOCIETIES

As Imagined by Men

Russ, Joanna. "Amor Vincit Foeminam: The Battle of the Sexes in SF." Science Fiction Studies 7 (1980): 2-15. Rpt. in To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction (Indiana UP, 1995)

1965 Laumer, Keith. "War Against the Yukks"
1969 Farmer, Philip Jose. Flesh
1972 Cooper, Edmund. Gender Genocide
1972 Moskowitz, Sam, ed. When Women Rule (anthology)
1973 Berger, Thomas. Regiment of Women
1984 Harrison, Harry. West of Eden (FDS in alien culture )
1993Brin, David, Glory Season

As Imagined by Women (Exclusive of WOW's)

1977 Warner, Sylvia Townsend. Kingdoms of Elfin (faery)
1978 Bradley, Marion Zimmer. The Ruins of Isis (Atlantean )
1978 Dodderidge, Esme. The New Gulliver
1979 Carr, Jayge. Leviathan's Deep
186 Sargent, Pamela. The Shore of Women
1986 Slonczewski, Joan. A Door into Ocean
1987 Hall, Sandi. Wingwomen of Hera
1988 Tepper, Sheri. The Gate to Woman's Country
1989 Salterberg, B. J. The Outlander: Captivity
Vonarburg, Elisabeth, In the Mother's Land
1995 Hand, Elizaabeth, Waking the Moon

WOW's: WOMEN ONLY WORLDS

As Imagined by Men

1952 Wylie, Philip. The Disappearance (multi-world)
1956 Wyndham, John. "Consider her Ways" [men die from plague]
1977 Handley, Max, Meanwhile (multi-world)

As Imagined by Women

1890 Lane, Mary E. Bradley. Mizora
1915 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Herland
1975 Russ, Joanna. The Female Man. (3 different worlds)
1975 Tiptree, James. "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?"
1978 Charnas, Suzy McGee. Motherlines
1979 Gearheart, Sally Miller. The Wanderground [WOW and ESP]
1993 Griffith, Nicola,Ammonite

MDS's: MALE DOMINATED SOCIETIES/ FEMINIST DYSTOPIAS/ BATTLE OF SEXES

1937 Burdekin, Katherine (as Murray Constantine) Swastika Night
1969/1974 Wittig, Monique. Les Guerilleres [ wm fight men/language]
1970 Niven, Larry. Ringworld. [males only are sapient]
1974 Charnas, Suzy McGee. Walk to the End of the World.
1975 Russ, Joanna. The Female Man. (3 different worlds)
1979 Fairbanks, Zoe Ann, Benefits
1981/1988 Vonarburg, Elisabeth, The Silent City
1985 Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale.
1983 Elgin, Suzette H. Native Tongue.
1985 ---. The Judas Rose. (Women linguists create their own language in a masculinist culture.)
1988? Teppler, Sherri. Grass
1989 Gom, Leona, The Y Chromosome
1990 Teppler, Sherri. Raising the Stones.
Teppler, Sherri Gibbon's Decline and Fall
1997 Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing: Walking to Mercury

FEMINIST/EGALITARIAN UTOPIAS

Criticism on Feminist Utopias

James Schmitz, The Witches of Karres
1971 Bryant, Dorothy. The Kin of Atra Are Waiting for You v.t. The Comforter
1971 Alexander, Thea Plym. 2150 A.D.
1974 Le Guin, Ursula. The Dispossessed.
1975 Callenbach, Ernst. Ecotopia. (West Coast secedes)
1975 Delany, Samuel. Triton
1975 Foster, M.A. The Warriors of Dawn
1976 Piercy, Marge, Woman on the Edge of Time (multi-worlds)
1977 Foster, M.A. The Game Players of Zan
1979 Foster, M.A. The Day of the Klesh
1979 Le Guin, Ursula. "The Eye of the Heron"
1979 Varley, John. "Options"
1980 Lynn, Elizabeth. The Northern Girl.
1980 Sargent, Pamela. Watchstar (Arcadian)
1981 Callenbach, Ernst. Ecotopia Emerging
1982 Miesel, Sandra. Dreamrider (Shamanism and talking otters)
1983 Gentle, Mary. Golden Witchbreed (children neuter)
1988 Tepper, Sheri. The Gate to Woman's Country.

MULTI-WORLDS (Two or more worlds in comparison)

1952 Wylie, Philip. The Disappearance

1960 Farmer, Philip Jose. Flesh [FDS/NOSEX/MDS]
1975 Russ, Joanna. The Female Man
1976 Piercy, Marge, Woman on the Edge of Time
1977 Handley, Max, Meanwhile
1982 Hall, Sandi. The Godmothers
1983 Godwin, Gail. A Mother and Two Daughters

Feminine Magic Vs. Masculine Science

Norton, Andre, The Witch World Series
Bradbury, Marion Zimmer, Darkover Series
Elgin, Suzette, Cyote Jones Series
McIntyre, Vonda, Dreamsnake

ANDROGYNOUS OR SEX-CHANGING SPECIES

1951 Heinlein, Robert, The Puppet Masters
1960 Sturgeon, Theodore. Venus Plus X
1969 Le Guin, Ursula. The Left Hand of Darkness
1970 DeVet, Charles and Katherine MacLean. "Second Game "
1974 Niven, Larry and Jerry Pournelle. The Mote in God's Eye
1979 Varley, John. Titan
1980 Varley, John. Wizard
1987 Storm Constantine, The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit
1988 Storm Constantine, The Bewitchments of Love and Hate
1988 Storm Constantine, The Fulfillments of Fate and Desire

LONE/SINGLE ANDROGYNES

1971 Bradely, Marion Zimmer. The World Wreckers
Marge Piercy, He, She, and It.
1992 Thomas T. Thomas, Crygender

SEX-EXCHANGE (Men in Women's Bodies and Vice Versa)

1966 Robert Sheckley, Mindswap
1968 Hank Stein. Season of the Witch
1970 Heinlein, Robert. I Will Fear No Evil
1972 Carlson, William, "Dinner at Helen's" in Scortia (Palmbo says about reversible sex change. Allen and Helen are same person. Comp to Varley.)
1980 John Varley. "Options"

ANTHOLOGIES

1972 Scortia, Thomas Strange Bedfelllows: Sex and Science Fiction
1973 Joseph Elder, ed. Eros in Orbit (Trident)
1974 Sargent, Pamel, ed. Women of Wonder (Vintage)
1976 Susan Janice Anderson and Vonda McIntyre, eds. Aurora: Beyond Equality (Fawcett)
1976 Sargent, Pamlea, ed. More Women of Wonder (Vintage)
1977 ---. New Women of Wonder (Vintage)
1978 Virginia Kidd, ed. Millineal Women (Dell)
1990 Datlow, Ellen, ed. Alien Sex

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