Anthologies

Alien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy
edited by Ellen Datlow. (Roc (Penguin): New York, 1990).

Includes: "Foreword: Strange Attractors" by William Gibson; Introduction; "Her Furry Face" by Leigh Kennedy; "War Bride" by Rick Wilber; "How's the Night Life on Cissalda?" Harlan Ellison; "The Jamesburg Incubus" Scott Baker; "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" Larry Niven; "The First Time" by K. W. Jeter; "The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod" by Philip Jose Farmer; "Husbands" Lisa Tuttle; "When the Fathers Go" Bruce McAllister; "Dancing Chickens" Edward Bryant; "Roadside Rescue" Pat Cadigan; "Omnisexual" Geoff Ryman; "All My Darling Daughters" Connie Willis; "Arousal" by Richard Christian Matheson; "Scales" by Lewis Shiner; "Saving the World at the New Moon Motel" Roberta Lannes; "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side" James Tiptree, Jr.; "Picture Planes" by Michaela Roessner; and "Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates" by Pat Murphy.

See also the sequel: Off Limits

This is not an explicitly feminist anthology, but it does contain a number of very excellent feminist stories and writers (including Lisa Tuttle, Pat Cadigan, Connie Willis, James Tiptree, Jr., and Pat Murphy).
Quick Reviews: Edward Bryant's "Dancing Chickens" was one of the wierdest and most disturbing stories I've ever read. Also, I don't ordinarily love Larry Niven but "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" was quite funny. "All My Darling Daughters" by Connie Willis was excellent -- but not for the faint-of-heart. (More pissed-off at patriarchy and sexual abuse than explicitly feminist.) "Arousal" (Matheson) was hot.
-- lq, rev. 5/27/97

Aliene, amazzoni, astronaute

a cura di Oriana Palusci, Milano, Mondadori, 1990
It is an anthology of feminist's SF about 3 themes: Space voyage, alien bodies, Surviving (after bombs and destruction). -- at

Allskin and Other Tales by Contemporary Czech Women
edited by Alexandra Büchler

Women in Translation: Seattle, 1998.
1-879679-11-6 (pbk)

Includes: "Introduction" by Alexandra Büchler; "Allskin Dances on Tables" by Daniela Fischerová; "Far from the Tree" by Zuzana Brabcová; "The Woman from the Region of Tyre" by Tereza Boucková; "Théa" by Daniela Hodrová; "The Funeral" by Alexandra Berková; "What Nothing Looks Like" by Jana Cervenková; "Between Us Girls" by Eva Hauser; "E = mc2" by Alzbeta Serberová; "Talibe" by Iva Pekárková; "The Martyr of Love" by Eda Kriseová; "The Good New Times" by Lenka Procházková; "Dear Jirka ..." by Zdena Salivarová; "Joseph Stalin" by Zdena Tomin; "A Barbarian Woman in Captivity" by Vera Linhartová; and "Fragments and Likenesses" by Sylvie Richter.

Not entirely sf / fantasy, still many of these stories are relevant. "The first anthology of fiction by Czech women to appear in English ...." "Readers familiar with Czech literature in translation will recognize the characteristic features: its inclination toward the fantastic, the absurd, the grotesque and the surreal, its penchant for political allegory and satire, its sense of irony and black humor, its lopsided view of reality." ... "[The stories in this anthology] tend to draw on a much broader tradition of storytelling that encompasses myth, legend and fairy tale and on folk culture with its belief in magic and the supernatural." (from the Introduction)

Amazons!
edited, with an introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson

Daw (Wollheim): New York, 1979
"Amazons! An anthology of original stories by fine writers about women warriors that was so good that it won the World Fantasy Award as the best collection of the year"

Amazons! includes:
"Introduction: Our Amazon Heritage" by Jessica Amanda Salmonson;
"The Dreamstone" by C. J. Cherryh;
"Wolves of Nakesht" by Janrae Frank;
"Woman of the White Waste" by T. J. Morgan;
"The Death of Augusta" by Emily Brontë, edited by Joanna Russ;
"Morrien's Bitch" by Janet Fox;
"Agbewe's Sword" by Charles R. Saunders;
"Jane Saint's Travails (Part One)" by Josephine Saxton;
"The Sorrows of Witches" by Margaret St. Clair;
"Falcon Blood" by Andre Norton;
"The Rape Patrol" by Michele Belling;
"Bones for Dulath" by Megan Lindholm;
"Northern Chess" by Tanith Lee;
"The Woman Who Loved the Moon" by Elizabeth A. Lynn;
and Additional Reading compiled with Susan Wood.

Amazons II
edited, with an introduction by by Jessica Amanda Salmonson

Daw (Wollheim): New York, 1982
"By popular demand, a brand new anthology of all-original stories by leading fantasy writers ... "

Includes: "Introduction: Art, History, and Amazons" by Jessica Amanda Salmonson;
"For a Daughter" by F. M. Busby;
"The Battle Crow's Daughter" by Gillian Fitzgerald;
"Southern Lights" by Tanith Lee;
"Zroya's Trizub" by Gordon Derevanchuk;
"The Robber Girl" by Phyllis Ann Karr;
"Lady of the Forest End" by Gael Baudino;
"The Ivory Comb" by Eleanor Arnason;
"The Borders of Sabazel" by Lillian Stewart Carl;
"Who Courts a Reluctant Maiden" by Ardath Mayhar;
"The Soul Slayer" by Lee Killough;
"Nightwork" by Jo Clayton;
and "In the Lost Lands" by George R. R. Martin.

Ancient Enchantresses
edited by Kathleen M. Massie-Ferch, Martin H. Greenberg, and Richard Gilliam.

1995. First printing August 1995. Daw Books, Inc.: New York
"Nineteen original tales of sorceresses from around the world and down through the ages."
Includes: Introduction by Melanie Rawn. Includes "The Lady's Gift" by Melanie Rawn; "The Last Spell" by Andre Norton; "The Offering Place" by Diana L. Paxson; "Suffer a Sorceress" by Harry Turtledove; "Saxon Flaxen" by Tanith Lee; "Beyond the Wide World's End" by Susan Shwartz; "The Seven Flowers of Autumn" by Claudia O'Keefe; "Ancient Enchantresses of War" by Kathleen M. Massie-Ferch; "Her City of Ladies" by Steven Rogers; "Unmasking the Ancient Light" by Deborah Wheeler; "A Dying at Blackwater" by Hugh B. Cave; "The Shiksa" by Mike Resnick and Lawrence Shimel; "Mehitabel Goodwin" by Lawrence Watt-Evans; "A Craving for Oysters" by Mary Frances Zambreno; "On the Sun and Moon Mountain" by William F. Wu; "But One Son Living" by Lois Tilton; "A Wind from Heaven" by Laura Resnick; "In His Name" by Jennifer Roberson; "Erdeni's Tiger" by Pamela Sargent; and "Late Words" by Kthleen M. Massie-Ferch.

Angels of Power and Other Reproductive Creations
edited by Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein

Spinifex Press: West Melbourne, Australia, 1991
Angels of Power includes "Introduction" by Renate Klein and Susan Hawthorne (vii-xi); Sandra Shotlander "Angels of Power"; Susan Eisenberg "Battleground"; Carmel Bird "Everything is Ova, Dr. God"; Susan Hawthorne "Just Another Bit of News"; Cait Featherstone "Crib Colours Fade"; Atholee Scott "Another World"; Lucy Sussex "Mother-of-All"; Thalia "Raw Material," "Egg Harvest," "Flushing," "In Vitro Fertilization," and "Eugenics"; Melissa Chan "Forgetting Arachnida"; Maurilia Meehan "Alfalfa Salad"; Susan Hawthorne "Eggs"; Mary O'Brien "Elly"; Karen Malpede "Better People"; Rosaleen Love "Tanami Drift"; Barbara Neely "A Yenga Tale"; "Further Reading"; "Notes on Contributors"; and Acknowledgements.

The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors
edited by Terri Windling

Tor: New York, 1995. ISBN 0-312-86221-0.
1995 Tiptree Shortlist.
Includes: "Introduction" by Terri Windling, "The Armless Maiden" by Midori Snyder, "The Hero's Journey" (essay) by Midori Snyder, "Bedtime Story" (poem) by Lisel Mueller, "Allerleirauh" by Jane Yolen, "Snow White to the Prince" (poem) by Delia Sherman, "She Sleeps in a Tower" by Tanith Lee, "Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)" (poem) by Anne Sexton, "In the House of My Enemy" by Charles de Lint, "Fear of Falling" (poem) by Susan Palwick, "Princess in Puce" by Annita Harlan, "The Stepsister's Story" (poem) by Emma Bull, "The Session" by Steven Gould, "The Mirror Speaks" (poem) by Jane Yolen, "The Juniper Tree" by Peter Straub, "Dolls" (poem) by Guy Summertree Veryzer, "This Is Us, Excellent" by Mark Richards, "Saturn" (poem) by Sharon Olds, "The Twelve-Windowed Tower" by Silvana Siddali, "Now I Lay Me (poem) by Sharon Olds, "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" by Ellen Kushner, "Reading the Brothers Grimm to Jenny" (poem) by Lisel Mueller, "Knives" by Munro Sickafoose, "Scars" (poem) by Munro Sickafoose, "The Pangs of Love" by Jane Gardam, "Brother and Sister" (poem) by Terri Windling, "The Face in the Cloth" by Jane Yolen, "Their Father" (poem) by Gwen Strauss, "The Chrysanthemum Robe" by Kara Dalkey, "Watching the Bobolinks" (memoir) by Caroline Stevermer, "The Boy Who Needed Heroes" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, "Wolves" (memoir) by Sonia Keizas, "Wolf's Heart" by Tappan King, "The Story I Hadn't Planned to Write" (essay) by Tappan King, "Gretel in Darkness" (poem) by Louise Gluck, "The Lily and the Weaver's Heart" by Nancy Etchemendy, "Silvershod" (poem) by Ellen Steiber, "The Lion and the Lark" by Patricia A. McKillip, "The Iron Shoes" (poem) by Johnny Clewell, "The Green Children" by Terri Windling, "Guardian Neighbor" (memoir) by Lynda Barry, "The Little Dirty Girl" by Joanna Russ, "Donkeyskin" (prose poem) by Terri Windling, "In the Night Country" by Ellen Steiber, "A Matter of Seeing" (essay) by Ellen Steiber, "Afterword: Surviving Childhood" (essay) by Terri Windling, "Epilogue: Dream Catcher" by Will Shetterly." About the Contributors. A Short List of Recommended Reading.

The third-wave feminists in the 1970s claimed inc3st and child abuse, brought them into the open, and pushed society to acknowledge these crimes. The therapy movements that emerged from that time continue to shape our personal lives, our media, our arts, and our society. The Armless Maiden is a fantasy anthology with the theme of child abuse, recovery, escape. Many of the stories are revisions of old fairy tales; many of the stories are creations of new fairy tales. The stories follow adults, children, abusers, the abused, those who escape, and those who do not. Many of the stories are published for the first time in this collection. I highly recommend this anthology - if you look around, you will almost certainly know one or several people who were abused in their child (or adult-) hood. -- lq, 5/10/99

Arrows of Eros
edited by Alex Stewart

New English Library: 1989
"Unearthly tales of love and death"
"Original stories of SF, fantasy, and horror in some way related to sexuality ... " Includes: "Introduction" by Alex Stewart; "Wildland" by Brian Stableford; "The Motivation" by David Langford; "Howie Dreams" by Anne Gay; "Odd Attachment" by Iain M. Banks; "Iron Shoes" by Geraldine Harris; "Pamela's Pursuit" by Kim Newman; "The Beautiful Biting Machine" by Tanith Lee; "A Little Magic" by Chris Morgan; "The Palomino Boy" by Freda Warrington; "Cruel as the Grave" by Alex Stewart; "The Song of Women" by Paul Kincaid; "The Amorous Adventures of Hogfoot Right" by Garry Kilworth; "The Horn" by Stephen Gallagher; "Mela Worms" by Diana Wynne Jones; "The Cat and the Sleep Compiler" by Christina Lake; "The Growing Place" by Simon Ounsley; and Acknowledgements.

Aurora: Beyond Equality
edited by Vonda N. McIntyre and Susan Janice Anderson

Fawcett Publications, Inc.: Greewnich, Connecticut, 1976
Aurora includes "Introduction: Feminism and Science Fiction: Beyond BEMS and Boobs" by Susan Janice Anderson; Racoona Sheldon "Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!"; James Tiptree, Jr. "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?"; Dave Skal "The Mothers, the Mothers, How Eerily It Sounds"; Mildred Downey Broxon "The Antrim Hills"; Ursula K. Le Guin "Is Gender Necessary?"; Joanna Russ "Corruption"; P. J. Plauger "Here Be Dragons"; Craig Strete "Why Has the Virgin Mary Never Entered the Wigwam of Standing Bear?"; Marge Piercy "Woman on the Edge of Time"; and a bibliography, "Other Works of Interest."