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Women of Speculative Fiction: Nonfiction
1.
Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories
by:
Nichelle Nichols
3.89 avg rating β 768 ratings
2.
Conversations with Octavia Butler
by:
Octavia E. Butler
4.50 avg rating β 214 ratings
3.
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
by:
Jill Lepore
3.73 avg rating β 16,561 ratings
4.
Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing
by:
Isabel Cristina Pinedo
4.02 avg rating β 130 ratings
5.
Born with Teeth
by:
Kate Mulgrew
3.93 avg rating β 10,015 ratings
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The Princess Diarist
by:
Carrie Fisher
3.70 avg rating β 88,148 ratings
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
by:
Ruth Franklin
4.02 avg rating β 5,210 ratings
8.
Reflections: On the Magic of Writing
by:
Diana Wynne Jones
4.32 avg rating β 951 ratings
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James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
by:
Julie Phillips
4.24 avg rating β 1,381 ratings
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Space Oddities: Women and Outer Space in Popular Film and Culture, 1960-2000
by:
Marie Lathers
3.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Superheroines and the Epic Journey: Mythic Themes in Comics, Film and Television
by:
Valerie Estelle Frankel
4.15 avg rating β 13 ratings
12.
Women in Doctor Who: Damsels, Feminists and Monsters
by:
Valerie Estelle Frankel
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 13 ratings
12.
Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
by:
Rhonda V. Wilcox
4.12 avg rating β 962 ratings
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Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
by:
Carol J. Clover
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3,006 ratings
14.
Gothic for Girls: Misty and British Comics
by:
Julia Round
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 11 ratings
14.
A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit
by:
Julia Briggs
3.73 avg rating β 41 ratings
14.
The Invention of Angela Carter
by:
Edmund Gordon
4.28 avg rating β 456 ratings
14.
The Geek Feminist Revolution
by:
Kameron Hurley
3.86 avg rating β 4,235 ratings
14.
Delving into Lower Decks : Easter Eggs, Homages, and Other Hilarious Salutes for SciFi Fans in the Know
by:
Valerie Estelle Frankel
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
20.
The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy
by:
Grace Lee Whitney
3.66 avg rating β 116 ratings
20.
Investigating Lois Lane: The Turbulent History of the Daily Planet's Ace Reporter
by:
Tim Hanley
3.85 avg rating β 243 ratings
20.
Joanna Russ
by:
Gwyneth Jones
3.82 avg rating β 34 ratings
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I'm Screaming As Fast As I Can
by:
Linnea Quigley
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
20.
Katniss the Cattail: An Unauthorized Guide to Names and Symbols in Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games
by:
Valerie Estelle Frankel
3.58 avg rating β 469 ratings
25.
Act Right: A Manual for the On-Camera Actor
by:
Erin Gray
4.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
25.
The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology
by:
Kate Ferguson Ellis
4.04 avg rating β 57 ratings
25.
Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler
by:
Rebecca J. Holden
4.32 avg rating β 25 ratings
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The Female Fantastic: Gendering the Supernatural in the 1890s and 1920s
by:
Lizzie Harris McCormick
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
25.
Letters to Tiptree
by:
Alexandra Pierce
4.07 avg rating β 87 ratings
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Empowered: The Symbolism, Feminism, & Superheroism of Wonder Woman
by:
Valerie Estelle Frankel
4.20 avg rating β 15 ratings
31.
Drama and Delight: The Life and Legacy of Verity Lambert
by:
Richard Marson
4.24 avg rating β 37 ratings
31.
Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine
by:
Tim Hanley
3.75 avg rating β 960 ratings
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Female Gothic Histories: Gender, History and the Gothic
by:
Diana Wallace
3.67 avg rating β 15 ratings
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A Rey of Hope: Feminism, Symbolism and Hidden Gems in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
by:
Valerie Estelle Frankel
3.44 avg rating β 18 ratings
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The Many Lives of Catwoman: The Felonious History of a Feline Fatale
by:
Tim Hanley
4.02 avg rating β 182 ratings
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Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre
by:
Alison Peirse
4.17 avg rating β 121 ratings
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Womenβs Authorship and the Early Gothic: Legacies and Innovations
by:
Kathleen Hudson
4.25 avg rating β 4 ratings
38.
Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain
by:
Melissa Edmundson Makala
3.50 avg rating β 6 ratings
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She-wolf: A cultural history of female werewolves
by:
Hannah Priest
4.41 avg rating β 44 ratings
38.
Choosing to be Insurgent or Allegiant: Symbols, Themes & Analysis of the Divergent Trilogy
by:
Valerie Estelle Frankel
3.73 avg rating β 22 ratings
41.
Truth, Justice, & the American Way: The Life and Times of Noel Neill, the Original Lois Lane
by:
Larry Thomas Ward
4.29 avg rating β 7 ratings
41.
Women's Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930: Haunted Empire
by:
Melissa Edmundson
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
41.
Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women
by:
Wendy Kolmar
4.14 avg rating β 7 ratings
41.
The Women of Orphan Black: Faces of the Feminist Spectrum
by:
Valerie Estelle Frankel
4.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
45.
Shirley Jackson and Domesticity: Beyond the Haunted House
by:
Jill E. Anderson
3.93 avg rating β 15 ratings
45.
Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide: Women Writers and the Supernatural (Volume 1)
by:
Vanessa D. Dickerson
3.85 avg rating β 13 ratings
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Chosen One: The Heroineβs Journey of Katniss, Elsa, Tris, Bella, and Rey
by:
Valerie Estelle Frankel
3.71 avg rating β 7 ratings
48.
I'm Still Here: Confessions of a Sex Kitten
by:
Eartha Kitt
4.19 avg rating β 154 ratings
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American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age
by:
Dara Downey
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 8 ratings
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Orphan Black and the Heroineβs Journey: Symbols, Depth Psychology, and the Feminist Epic
by:
Valerie Estelle Frankel
4.17 avg rating β 6 ratings
51.
The Conscious Catwoman Explains Life On Earth
by:
Julie Newmar
3.76 avg rating β 21 ratings
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Star Wars Meets the Eras of Feminism: Weighing All the Galaxyβs Women Great and Small
by:
Valerie Estelle Frankel
4.23 avg rating β 13 ratings
53.
Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley
by:
Ximena Gallardo C.
3.98 avg rating β 63 ratings
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The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture
by:
Raechel Dumas
3.83 avg rating β 12 ratings
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Terminator Vault: The Complete Story Behind the Making of The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day
by:
Ian Nathan
4.41 avg rating β 92 ratings
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Monstrous Women in Comics
by:
Samantha Langsdale
4.25 avg rating β 4 ratings
55.
Fourth Wave Feminism in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 2. Essays on Television Representations, 2013-2019
by:
Valerie Estelle Frankel
4.43 avg rating β 7 ratings
58.
You Only Get One Life
by:
Brigitte Nielsen
3.68 avg rating β 34 ratings
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Wonder Women and Bad Girls: Superheroine and Supervillainess Archetypes in Popular Media
by:
Valerie Estelle Frankel
4.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
60.
Mulder, It's Me: The Gillian Anderson Files
by:
Gil Adamson
3.63 avg rating β 38 ratings
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Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin
by:
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.48 avg rating β 109 ratings
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Inside the Captain Marvel Film: The Comics, the Symbols, the Feminismβ¦and Easter Eggs Too
by:
Valerie Estelle Frankel
4.64 avg rating β 11 ratings
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Wild Love
by:
Daryl Hannah
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
63.
Eleanor Cameron: Dimensions of Amazement
by:
Paul V. Allen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 13 ratings
63.
Fourth Wave Feminism in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 1. Essays on Film Representations, 2012-2019
by:
Valerie Estelle Frankel
4.80 avg rating β 5 ratings
66.
The Story of the Flash Gordon Movie Serials
by:
Charles Lee Jackson II
3.95 avg rating β 21 ratings
66.
Ms. Marvel's America: No Normal
by:
Jessica Baldanzi
3.33 avg rating β 12 ratings
66.
Songbirds, Snakes, & Sacrifice: Collinsβ Prequel References and Philosophies Explained
by:
Valerie Estelle Frankel
3.67 avg rating β 9 ratings
69.
Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond
by:
Marleen S. Barr
3.19 avg rating β 16 ratings
70.
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
by:
Margaret Atwood
3.77 avg rating β 2,284 ratings
70.
Scream Queens: A Horror Anthology
by:
Emery LeeAnn
4.74 avg rating β 35 ratings
72.
Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Womenβs Science Fiction
by:
Lisa Yaszek
4.32 avg rating β 19 ratings
73.
Darwinian Feminism and Early Science Fiction: Angels, Amazons and Women
by:
Patrick B. Sharp
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
74.
Our Space, Our Place: Women in the Worlds of Science Fiction Television
by:
Sherry Ginn
3.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
75.
Women Scientists in Fifties Science Fiction Films
by:
Bonnie Noonan
3.86 avg rating β 7 ratings
76.
Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference
by:
Jane L. Donawerth
3.89 avg rating β 9 ratings
77.
Cyberpunk Women, Feminism and Science Fiction : A Critical Study
by:
Carlen Lavigne
3.59 avg rating β 22 ratings
78.
Where No Man Has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction
by:
Lucie Armitt
3.83 avg rating β 6 ratings
79.
Khatru Symposium: Women in Science Fiction
by:
Jeanne Gomoll
4.64 avg rating β 14 ratings
80.
Women, Science and Fiction: The Frankenstein Inheritance
by:
Debra Benita Shaw
3.80 avg rating β 5 ratings
81.
The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein
by:
Dorothy Hoobler
4.05 avg rating β 803 ratings
82.
Scream Queens: Heroines of the Horrors
by:
Calvin Thomas Beck
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 14 ratings
83.
My Extraordinary Ordinary Life
by:
Sissy Spacek
3.98 avg rating β 1,394 ratings
84.
Women in Horror Films, 1930s
by:
Gregory William Mank
4.69 avg rating β 13 ratings
85.
Women in Horror Films, 1940s
by:
Gregory William Mank
4.30 avg rating β 20 ratings
86.
The Women of Hammer Horror: A Biographical Dictionary and Filmography
by:
Robert Michael "Bobb" Cotter
3.58 avg rating β 12 ratings
87.
Vampira and Her Daughters: Women Horror Movie Hosts from the 1950s into the Internet Era
by:
Robert Michael "Bobb" Cotter
4.07 avg rating β 15 ratings
88.
Bitches, Bimbos & Virgins: Women in the Horror Film
by:
Gary J. Svehla
3.57 avg rating β 7 ratings
89.
Searching for Sycorax: Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror
by:
Kinitra D. Brooks
4.30 avg rating β 37 ratings
90.
Fecund Horror: Slashers, Rape/Revenge, Women in Prison, Zombies and Other Exploitation Dreck
by:
Noah Berlatsky
3.78 avg rating β 9 ratings
91.
Women with Guts: Horror Heroines in Film, TV and Print
by:
Alison Lang
3.95 avg rating β 22 ratings
92.
Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror
by:
Erin Harrington
4.07 avg rating β 44 ratings
93.
Elvira Mistress of the Dark: A Photographic Retrospective of the Queen of Halloween
by:
Cassandra Peterson
4.79 avg rating β 108 ratings
94.
The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle: Final Girls and a New Hollywood Formula
by:
Alexandra West
3.81 avg rating β 235 ratings
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A Wolf in Petticoats: Essays exploring Darwinism, Sexuality, and Gender in Late Victorian Gothic Horror
by:
Jonathan Baird
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
96.
Elisabeth Sladen the Autobiography
by:
Elisabeth Sladen
4.41 avg rating β 761 ratings
97.
Dracula's Daughters: The Female Vampire on Film
by:
Douglas Brode
3.62 avg rating β 13 ratings
98.
Dragonwriter: A Tribute to Anne McCaffrey and Pern
by:
Todd McCaffrey
4.23 avg rating β 639 ratings
99.
She Changed Comics: The Untold Story of the Women Who Changed Free Expression in Comics
by:
Betsy Gomez
4.14 avg rating β 166 ratings
100.
Chicks Dig Comics: A Celebration of Comic Books by the Women Who Love Them
by:
Lynne M. Thomas
4.09 avg rating β 182 ratings
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