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	RacProps Issue 2 - The Rise of Women in Science Fiction
		The crew had all a male main cast, the only women seen were there for only one show at a time and would be there only to see, advice but never to make the important decisions.
		The hero said a few times that the women were always "not to be trusted"; he seemed misogynist at times.
		After the death of the commanding officer, it was a woman that was in charge of the mission, she had a strong character and was a good leader.
	www.racprops.com /issue2/sfwomenrise (2425 words)

	Women in science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Other examples of speculative fiction include utopias and surreal fiction, both of which, again, were written and enjoyed by women as well as men.
		Be that as it may, in the 1960s, the advent of Second Wave Feminism, combined with the growing view of science fiction as the literature of ideas, led to an influx of female SF writers, which gave the appearance that women were appearing for the first time.
		Adherents to this historically incorrect view sometimes distinguish between science fiction as a men's genre, and fantasy as a women's genre; or between "hard science fiction" (e.g., based on physics or astronomy) as a men's genre, and "soft science fiction" (e.g., based on biology or sociology) as a women's genre.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Women_in_science_fiction (425 words)

	New Page 1
		Women writers, readers, and critics have exercised a powerful influence on the development of SF over the last three decades; and SF by women, whether or not it defines itself as feminist, has contributed both to the growing sophistication of the genre and to its increasing heterogeneity.
		The objective of this issue, however, is a feminist one, as we highlight the work of women SF writers and focus attention on their imaginative re-visions of lived reality.
		For these women, writing SF has provided a means for "telling new stories so as to inscribe into the picture of reality characters and events and resolutions that were previously invisible, untold, unspoken (and so unthinkable, unimaginable, 'impossible')" (de Lauretis: 11).
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/documents/introduction51.htm (1714 words)

	Wirehed Magazine Articles » Strong Women of Science Fiction Television
		This small list of strong roles for women in television science fiction demonstrates characters that are not just there to open the communications channels or act as sexual tension for the leading man. In fact, some of these women don’t even get the guy in the end.
		Women who can marry, have children, and run a company all in the same lifetime and, often, at the same time.
		Women who do not consider themselves subordinate to the men in their lives, nor superior.
	www.wirehed.com /articles/index.php?p=4 (1269 words)

	Issue Thirteen- Editorial
		The matter of gender equity in science fiction is neither new, nor is it likely to be resolved by any simple act, gesture or decision.
		When we assess fiction or non-fiction, consider reviewing a book or publishing an article, gender is not a consideration; rather, we base our assessment on what we consider to be good and what we consider to be interesting.
		Science fiction as a genre should attempt to provide material which is of interest to women, and is relevant to women's experience, if it wants women to be involved.
	www.eidolon.net /old_site/issue_13/13_edit.htm (1152 words)

	Calls for Presentations, Papers, Publications: Collection: Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia
		The 2-volume, illustrated Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia is scheduled to be published by Greenwood Press in 2007.
		Entries on how the topics of women and gender have been dealt with by male writers and artists in science fiction and fantasy will also be included.
		This project is interdisciplinary with a women's studies focus, so the editor is especially interested in soliciting writers in the following fields: communications and media studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, film and television studies, gender studies, history, literature, media studies, multicultural studies, sociology, and women's studies.
	www.unm.edu /~loboblog/mort/archives/006101.html (611 words)

	The Swan \| Military Command in Women's Science Fiction: C.J. Cherryh's Signy Mallory
		S.N. Lewitt, in her military science fiction, includes women who fight alongside men as a matter of course, neither the focus of the novels nor their spear carriers, but integral members of the teams who fly the high-tech batwings, stealth craft designed to fight inside or outside of an atmosphere.
		As a science fiction writer, then, she is able both to create a universe in which women can serve in the highest ranks of combat, as women in the airforce today struggle to do, and then explore the meaning of the term "moral war."
		In the mind-puzzles of women's military science fiction, however, weakness as a category is based on a situational lack of agency--skill and weapons--not on sex or gender.
	www.dm.net /~theswan/baconsmith.html (3067 words)

	Browsing Science and Technology -> Exhibitions -> "Victims of the Vortex" exhibit
		From "Women with Weapons" section of the "Victims of the Vortex: Visions of Women in Science Fiction Illustration" exhibition
		From "Women in Containers" section of the "Victims of the Vortex: Visions of Women in Science Fiction Illustration" exhibition
		From "Women Being Rescued" section of the "Victims of the Vortex: Visions of Women in Science Fiction Illustration" exhibition
	imagebase.lib.vt.edu /browse.php?folio_ID=/science/exh/vic (114 words)

	Printed Matter -- Karen Joy Fowler on Tiptree -- Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Fowler, a science fiction writer, described several science fiction novels she read before she and other judges chose the winner.
		Women came to their own in the 1970s when they took over the field.
		The suggestion was made that women wrote only about politics and gender and the exciting scientific extrapolations that were made in earlier science fiction weren't any longer to be found.
	www.dcn.davis.ca.us /go/gizmo/1997/tiptree1.html (612 words)

	AlterNet: Wikipedia vs. Women
		Women must demand thier view is a true one, part of the whole, reflecting all of history, fact, etc. Which had simply been ignored (or taken for granted) in the past.
		Women point out that something is happening in their experience as women, invariably someone condescendingly tells them they're wrong about their own experiences.
		Either women as a general category were not interested in it or the entire system is orrupt and controlled by elitist males that have a secret agenda to oppress women.
	www.alternet.org /columnists/story/45730 (3689 words)

	A Womb With A View: Women in SF
		The history of science fiction has an added difficulty: the genre is dominated by a male tradition in terms of both authors/creators and readers/consumers.
		Women remained largely excluded from scientific endeavours (except as assistants), and their portrayal within SF paralleled this social phenomenon.
		The women who produce and consume this "slash" fiction remain members of a subculture of SF (they can be found on the Internet) but often tend to keep to themselves on the margins of the wider SF community.
	www.spacedoutinc.org /DU-17/WomenInSF.html (4960 words)

	87.02.04: Science Fiction and the Future
		For example, he sees similarities between the magic of a medieval legend and a “time warp.” He states that most science fiction narratives follow the quest romance pattern, and that the characters in a story can be looked at through their relationship to the quest (1, 3).
		Another definition, much broader than Rose’s, states that science fiction “covers every type of story in which the centre of attention is on the results of a possible, though not actual, change in the condition of life” (Rose 54).
		Much of it still depicts women as “mother-children-and-kitchen.” A common attitude of some of the writers before 1970 is that women do not belong in science fiction but if they are, keep them in their place (Lundwall 145).
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1987/2/87.02.04.x.html (4627 words)

	Women In Science Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Commonly referred to as women, these adept organisms have influenced greatly the transcribed codes known "literature".
		While the classification of the sort of "literature" labeled "Science-Fiction" has been popular since it's development, the function of "women" in its genesis and evolution is obtusely unidentified.
		The central dogma in Science Fiction is that the male species dominates transcription.
	www.humboldt.edu /~lab45 (184 words)

	Women in science fiction writing - Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
		During the discussion, the subject of womens' role in science fiction writing was addressed.
		Naomi: I've often felt that women five years older than I am is where it starts; that's the generation of women who dealt with all the discrimination.
		And I feel like women who are five years my senior and older had to deal with discrimination, had to deal with all this stuff that basically laid the foundation for a work environment where I just walk in and it's not even an issue.
	www.andromedatv.com /about/behind_femalewriter.html (555 words)

	Women and Sci-Fi
		In the arena of science fiction, women have been discriminated against, whether as writers or characters.
		The characters are dealing with the effects of the misuse of science and the technology itself is not the focus of the stories.
		Fertile women are used as breeding stock and technology is used to oppress these women.
	www.slais.ubc.ca /COURSES/libr500/05-06-wt2/www/N_Vanhinsberg/women.htm (393 words)

	Women science fiction authors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although the novel Frankenstein, written in 1818 by Mary Shelley, has been called the first science fiction novel, there is a persistent but false belief that women did not enter the field of science fiction writing until the 1960s and 1970s.
		Thanks to the New Wave, championed by Judith Merril, old taboos were broken and a new generation of women writers entered the field.
		A plethora of women writers entered the field in the 1980s and 1990s, and in the early twenty first century, publications by female and male writers appear to be numerically on a par.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Women_science_fiction_authors (327 words)

	The Women in Science Bookshelf
		Piercy is consistently interested in the human consequences of science and technology; science is usually present in the background of her work.
		Anna is a journalist and the second wife of one of the principal investigators on a major international epilepsy project; she documents the work and interactions of the scientists and their subjects.
		A History of Women in Science, from antiquity, through the story of Hypatia of Alexandria, Trotula and the ladies of Salerno, Hildegarde of Bigen, the scientific ladies of the seventeenth century, the woman astronomers, chemists, mathematicians and naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and finally the consequences of the institutionalization and professionalization of science.
	www.sff.net /people/asinclair/scifembk.html (2229 words)

	ARTS/SCIENCE PROGRAMME
		To determine whether there are some instances when science fiction is merely a medium for a different type of narrative, or alternatively if other narratives can cross the boundaries to become science fiction.
		Science Fiction and Humour; since humour is a very individual taste, I want everyone to bring along something they personally have found funny and share it with the group.
		DVD is an extremely useful format for science fiction material, but if you need to use one in class you must book in advance.
	www.geocities.com /neveahfs/coursedocument.htm (3614 words)

	Battle of the Sexes in SF - Excerpt
		This book is about a type of sf story, the battle-of-the-sexes story, and how such stories provide insight into the role of women in science fiction, literally and textually, from the mid-1920s until the present.
		Russ uses the term to refer to sf texts that are explicitly about the "sex war" between men and women and which posit as a solution to this conflict that women accept their position as subordinate to men.
		As a critic, a reviewer, and a teacher, I have spent my life reading a huge amount of extraordinarily bad fiction; sometimes the only way to discharge the emotion aroused by the incessant production of gurry is to beat the gurry to death, especially when it's as marvellously foolish as this was.
	www.justinelarbalestier.com /Battle/excerpt.htm (392 words)

	Teenagers Debut Novel Hopes To Shed a New Modern Light on Women in Science Fiction
		Champion has always been a fan of science fiction, but she has always felt that something was missing.
		She intended to create three-dimensional female characters that were real; strong, no-nonsense women who could survive on their own, while battling their own demons, along with an exciting science fiction drama.
		Champion is currently undertaking a science degree which she feels will add a new level of depth, accuracy and dimension to her future science fiction works.
	www.prnewsnow.com /TextNews/41105.html (493 words)

	Amazon.com: Women of Wonder, the Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s: Books: Pamela ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It's no revelation that men make up the majority of science fiction authors and audiences, but female authors have made substantial contributions to the genre and are becoming increasingly important.
		In the '70s, Sargent edited three Women of Wonder anthologies, and 18 writers from this original trio (some with new stories) are joined here by three newcomers to the series, to give an eye-opening overview of science fiction and women between 1944 and 1978.
		Sargent highlights the history of women in science fiction in an information-packed introduction.
	www.amazon.com /Women-Wonder-Classic-Years-Science/dp/0156000318 (1105 words)

	Science Fiction 101 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Week 11 "Get Away From Her, You BTCH!" Women* in science fiction, from the "set dressing" women professionals of the 1950's, the companions of "Doctor Who", and Ripley of The "Alien" films.
		As a novice science fiction fan, think about what you feel Science Fiction is all about.
		This course is designed for the general non-Science Fiction fan who wishes to learn more about the genre and how it relates to our society.
	www.angelfire.com /journal2/sfzapgun (549 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour -Women in Space
		The science fiction film, ET drew huge family audiences into the cinema — and, of course, it was a woman who provided the voice of ET.
		Jenni is joined by research associate Dr Joan Haran from the University of Cardiff, Kate O’Riordan from the University of Lancaster and and the film critic and novelist Kim Newman.
		Whilst a good number of women feature in the fiction of space — not too many have experienced the fact — of the over 400 astronauts and cosmonauts who’ve been up, only 43 are women and of those only 2 are European.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/womanshour/2006_01_mon_01.shtml (513 words)

	Distance Degree Programs - Online Course
		Although the general public thinks of science fiction (SF) primarily as a phenomenon of escapist movies and television shows, there is also a large body of fine written SF which qualifies as good literature by any standard.
		In the threaded discussion called "Science Fiction Criticism" identify two or three of the critical works that Hollinger discusses which interest you and briefly explain why.
		When discussing fiction, they must attempt to answer at least some of the questions in the related study guide (but please don't write answers to all the study questions; leave some room for other students to contribute).
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/science_fiction/sfgradsyllabus.html (2091 words)

	Feminist SFF & Utopia: Bibliographies, Checklists, and Review Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Statistics about women in science fiction both as authors and readers.
		Du Mont, Mary J. "Images of Women in Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1970, 1980, and 1990: A Comparative Content Analysis." Voice of Youth Advocates, v.
		Index to Female Writers in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopia: 18th Century to the Present.
	feministsf.org /femsf/crit/bibs.html (777 words)

	News & Culture in Silicon Valley \| Technology News
		He received a handful of comments, almost entirely from men, which all boiled down to "I don't know" or "Maybe women are just more collaborative." As far as I know, Ito never got any good answers to his questions.
		Obviously, "women in science fiction" is hardly the same thing as feminist science fiction, in the same way an entry on "operating systems" could hardly be said to replace an entry on "Linux." It wasn't until June of this year that the category "feminist science fiction" was created again, after a great deal of agitation.
		If men are not talking, what women say to each other becomes a different conversation.
	www.metroactive.com /metro/12.20.06/work-0651.html (765 words)

	Bogus Gold Women In Sci-Fi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		If you look to the movies for what they say about us, this is not so much a step backward for women as a step sideways.
		But seriously, it can hardly be argued that women are a silent voice in movies these days.
		Once that movie about the "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" broke a million, American filmography officially achieved a sufficient estrogen level to sustain it through the next century.
	bogusgold.com /posts/1121113653.shtml (691 words)

	Women's Science & Math History Resources
		Women of NASA, features Milestones for Women in Aerospace, Women's Achievements in Aviation and Space, Women Changing the Face of Science, Student Sites, and much more.
		CHRONOLOGY OF WOMEN’S HISTORY IN SCIENCE - a chronology of women’s scientific achievements that illustrates the steady rise of their outstanding accomplishments and discoveries.
		Issue 49 is devoted to women who have achieved the pinnacle of the scientific world & Nobel laureates.
	www.northnet.org /stlawrenceaauw/scimath.htm (285 words)

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