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Subject: feminist SF....
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Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 10:17:06 EDT
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> From: Caro.PA@Xerox.ARPA
> 
> Here are my favorites:
> 
> * The Screwfly Solution, James Tiptree Jr.
> For a man, Tiptree sure writes strong female characters well.  I
> also enjoy the upbeat endings that his novels always have.
> 
> * Witch World, etc., by Andre Norton
> Another male writer who espouses feminist views.  His female
> characters are also very well written.

Perhaps these two write about women so well because they ARE women!
Writing under pseudomyms, y'know? (I'm probably only the millionth
person to point this out.)


> Others have suggested that John Norman's Gor series treat women in a
> radically different way than most other authors, but I haven't had a
> chance to read any of those books.

Yeah, I'd say that "radically different" is proabably an appropriate
description, but Norman's approach is NOT likely to be appreciated by
most feminists! Hardcore chauvinists, maybe....


> From: rti-sel!wfi@topaz.rutgers.edu (William Ingogly)
> 
> You might check out a couple of collections of SF by women that came
> out a few years back: "Women Of Wonder" and "More Women Of Wonder."
> I'm not sure about the name of the second collection. Both were
> available in paperback a few years ago.

I believe both titles are correct, and I think they were both edited by
Pamela Sargent (thought this might help you find them). Another collection
along the same lines was "Millennial Women" edited, I think, by Virginia
Kidd. (Confirmation, anyone?)


Regards,
	   --- Jeff Rogers
	       jcr@Mitre-Bedford.ARPA