Link: The History of Women in Sci-Fi Isn’t What You Think | WIRED

[potofsoup]

The History of Women in Sci-Fi Isn’t What You Think | WIRED

So why do we have such a distorted view of history? Yaszek says that the first science fiction anthologies were published during a backlash against first-wave feminism, and that male editors such as John W. Campbell and Groff Conklin specifically excluded women from their lineups.

“For whatever reasons, they had it in their heads that women couldn’t write,” she says, “and when they sat down to make the first anthologies—the genre was finally old enough to tell its own history—they really consciously dropped women out of that history.”

Comments

[katherine]

Thanks for linking to this, it was a sad and interesting read.

[potofsoup]

right? As if I didn't have enough reasons to be frustrated with Joseph Campbell

[minoanmiss]

Rargh yes.