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The role of women in speculative fiction has changed a great deal since the early to mid-20th century. There are several aspects to women's roles, including their participation as authors of speculative fiction and their role in science fiction fandom. Regarding authorship, in 1948, 10–15% of science fiction writers were female.
Moore is an example of a woman successfully writing pulp speculative fiction tales under a genderless pen-name. Her story "No Woman Born" (1944), [b] in which a female character's mind is transferred into a powerful robot body with feminine attributes is an early example of a work that challenged gender stereotypes of its day by combining ...
These authors often blurred the boundaries of feminist SF fiction and feminist speculative fiction, but their work laid substantive foundations for second-wave feminist SF authors to directly engage with the feminist project. "Simply put, women turned to SF in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s because it provided them with growing audiences for ...
There is a long tradition of female-only places in literature and mythology, starting with the Amazons and continuing into some examples of feminist utopias.In speculative fiction, women-only worlds have been imagined to come about, among other approaches, by the action of disease that wipes out men, along with the development of technological or mystical method that allow women to reproduce ...
Speculative fiction portal This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Science fiction writers . It includes writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Nisi Shawl (born 1955) is an African American writer, editor, and journalist. They are best known as an author of science fiction and fantasy short stories [1] who writes and teaches about how fantastic fiction might reflect real-world diversity of gender, sexual orientation, race, physical ability, age, and other sociocultural factors.
Amid a terrifying political moment, escapism can be dangerous. But as we celebrate ten years of the Southern Reach trilogy, N.K. Jemisin reminds us that stories can help deconstruct colonial power.
Chinese American speculative fiction written by and about women work on creating the feeling of nostalgia in readers, focusing in on experiences by second-generation Americans. [10] Women's experiences are also explored through the lens of cyberpunk fiction, with an emphasis on the female body.