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storytitle: Fidelity: A Primer
firstname: Michael
lastname: Blumlein
booktitle: 
periodical: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
date: 200009
publisher: 
year: 
htmldescription: 
<p>This is a story about circumcision, a very gender related issue. It
is one of the rare stores that explores gender issues by examining male
body issues, and the choices they involve.</p>
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storytitle: Diagram of Rapture
firstname: James L.
lastname: Cambias
booktitle: 
periodical: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
date: 200004
publisher: 
year: 
htmldescription: 
<p>A woman researching neurohormones discovers a brain chemical that naturally
triggers sexual arousal. The resulting drug artificially does the same
thing, affecting sexual interactions on a larger social scale, as well
as hanging relationships within the scientist's own family.</p>

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storytitle:
firstname: David
lastname: Ebershoff
booktitle: The Danish Girl
periodical: 
date: 
publisher: Viking
year: 
htmldescription: 
<p>The fantasy elements in this novel are so slight as to be almost non-existent,
but it was so compelling that the jury could not bear to leave it out.
It is the story of Einar, a man in 1920s Denmark who turns himself
into a woman, Lili, first through dress and mannerisms, then through lifestyle,
and ultimately surgery. One of the most interesting aspects of the book
is the portrayal of Greta, who is both Einar's wife and Lili's best friend,
as she runs through a tremendous range of emotions when her husband and
her life are transformed.</p>
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storytitle:
firstname: Mary
lastname: Gentle
booktitle: Ash: A Secret History
periodical: 
date: 
publisher: Victor Gollancz, London
year: 
htmldescription: 
<p>This enormous novel (published as an 1100 page book in the UK and as
a four volume work in the US) is set in an alternate 15th century. Its
main characters are Ash, a female mercenary, and Flora/Florian, a woman
who dresses as a man in order to study medicine. It is a vividly realized
portrait of two powerful and unusual women surviving in a time that is
openly hostile to them.</p>

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storytitle: Soma
firstname: Camille
lastname: Henrandez-Ramdwar
booktitle: Whispers from the CottonTree Root
periodical: 
date: 
publisher: Invisible Cities Press
year: 
htmldescription: 
<p>This is a powerful story about fitting in, about body image, and about
how physical appearance influences what others think about a woman's personality
and sexuality.</p>

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storytitle: The Glass Bottle Trick
firstname: Nalo
lastname: Hopkinson (ed.)
booktitle: Whispers from the Cotton TreeRoot
periodical: 
date: 
publisher: Invisible Cities Press
year: 
htmldescription: 
<p>A seamless blend of fairy tale and Caribbean folklore, this chilling
tale examines the roles of men and women in courtship, and how those roles
change with marriage and pregnancy.</p>

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storytitle:
firstname: Nalo
lastname: Hopkinson
booktitle: Midnight Robber
periodical: 
date: 
publisher: Warner Aspect
year: 
htmldescription: 
<p>A rollicking Caribbean feminist tale about a little girl turned outlaw,
it is a blend of action-adventure, science fiction, allegory, and myth
that offers a unique intersection of gender, race, and identity issues.
While not overtly about gender, the ideas and concepts of gender are at
its very heart.</p>
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storytitle:
firstname: China
lastname: Melville
booktitle: Perdido Street Station
periodical: 
date: 
publisher: Macmillan UK Ltd., London
year: 
htmldescription: 
<p>An amazing read, a big epic wonder of a novel that constructs an urban
fantasy world that is both Dickensian and futuristic. Its main themes
are about inter-species relationships and what it is to be human, but there
is a strong gender sub-theme that weaves its way through the city and the
lives of its main characters.</p>
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storytitle: Once on the Shores of the Strem Senegambia
firstname: Pamela
lastname: Mordecai
firstname2: Nalo
lastname2: Hopkinson (ed.)
booktitle: Whispers from the Cotton TreeRoot
periodical: 
date: 
publisher: Invisible Cities Press
year: 
htmldescription: 
<p>A very scary story about colonization and gender. The author uses a
future society to explore questions about what it means to be in a female
body, and what the consequences are when a woman's choices about her body
are not under her control.</p>

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storytitle:
firstname: Severna
lastname: Park
booktitle: The Annunciate
periodical: 
date: 
publisher: Eos
year: 
htmldescription: 
<p>A fresh and interesting feminist take on the Garden of Eden myth, with
new treatments of the familiar symbols of apple, gate, and garden.</p>

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storytitle:
firstname: Tess
lastname: Williams
booktitle: Sea As Mirror
periodical: 
date: 
publisher: HarperCollins Voyager
year: 
htmldescription: 
<p>Set in an overpopulated, environmentally precarious not-so-distant future,
this novel deals with the theme of inter-species communication, and is
a fascinating look at what it means to be the Other.</p>
