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Davin reports that only L. Taylor Hansen concealed her sex in early years, and that C. L. Moore wanted to hide her career as a science fiction author from her job. Women writers were in a minority: during the '50s and '60s, almost 1,000 stories published in science fiction magazines by over 200 female-identified authors between 1926 and 1960 ...
"Introduction: Women in Science Fiction" – Pamela Sargent In this essay, Sargent provides a short history of women in science fiction up to 1974. She discusses some of the earlier prominent women writers, from Mary Shelley to C. L. Moore, then looks at how women characters have been ignored or stereotyped by writers like Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and Robert Heinlein.
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Feminist science fiction spans a wider range than science fiction itself, covering fantasy, utopia and dystopia, horror (such as Anne Rice's vampire stories). [6] Marleen S. Barr says that what is described as feminist ‘SF’ is not really ‘SF’ at all, because it is not concerned with ‘hard science’ but with women's drive for power.
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.
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Gender has been an important theme explored in speculative fiction.The genres that make up speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, supernatural fiction, horror, superhero fiction, science fantasy and related genres (utopian and dystopian fiction), have always offered the opportunity for writers to explore social conventions, including gender, gender roles, and beliefs about gender.
The New Women of Wonder is the third anthology in a series of three volumes published in the 1970s, preceded by Women of Wonder (1975), and More Women of Wonder (1976). These volumes are considered one of the first science fiction collections to focus on women in science fiction both as authors and as varied and complex characters.