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RR 2018/043 Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Utopia Edited by Laura Quilter 1994 URL: http://feministsf.org/ Last visited October 2017 Gratis
As this website founder states, "Science fiction has been traditionally perceived as a male domain: male writers, male readers, male characters. While there have been many wonderful women writers in science fiction and fantasy, nonetheless, few would deny that the genre has certainly been one of the great literary bastions of sexism". To counter this bias, librarian Laura Quilter created this website in 1994, which is "essentially a complex bibliography that lists and cites and describes sf & critical works from a feminist perspective". She compiled the authors based on reference materials, trade journals, cataloguing manuals, and suggestions from the field.
This website has as its core women science fiction writers. However, it expands its scope to include utopian and fantasy: speculative fiction. It also provides bibliographies by format, the strongest in film and television. The very short lists for other media, and no listings under the heading "anime", are evidence of a dynamic website that was not fully built out.
The home page serves as the site map with a detailed hyperlinked...