@article{ref1,
title="Women in science fiction",
journal="Sex roles",
year="1982",
author="Bainbridge, William Sims",
volume="8",
number="10",
pages="1081-1093",
abstract="Science fiction has become an important medium of communication for new ideas and values concerning sex roles, and the influx of women into this previously male literary subculture is a change of significance for popular culture. This article uses the first large well-collected body of social science survey data to examine the ideological orientations of women readers and authors. None of the leading women authors write the traditional Hard-Science variety of science fiction that explores innovations in physicial science and technology, and there is a slight tendency for women readers to prefer this type less than men do. Women authors tend to write either Sword-and-Sorcery, a variety of heroic fantasy, or New-Wave science fiction, a politically liberal and stylistically progressive form. Many of the women authors use their fiction as a medium for advocating social change from a feminist perspective. Science fiction has become a forum for women authors' uninhibited public analysis of contemporary sex roles and consideration of options for the future.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0360-0025",
doi="10.1007/BF00291002",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00291002"
}