30 Dystopian Novels By and About Women

This week marks the release of Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God, a novel that envisions a world in which evolution has begun to reverse itself and women to lose their autonomy. Of course, our current reality—in which a man accused of child molestation still has a good chance of being elected to the Senate, in which the American president is a racist who has said women should be punished for getting abortions and refuses to admit to the truth of climate change, among other things—is feeling more dystopic by the minute. So it feels to me like a particularly good time to be reading dystopian fiction by and about women—starting with Louise Erdrich, but not ending there. To that end, below you’ll find 30 dystopian, near-future, and post-apocalyptic novels by and about women. You’ll find that I’m using the term “dystopia” loosely, but really, what’s the difference these days? More to the point: all of these novels consider the possible fates of women in a worsening world. As ever, please consider this selection a starting place, and add to the list in the comments. ... [mehr] http://lithub.com/30-dystopian-novels-by-and-about-women/

[Es werden u.a. vorgestellt: Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower; Megan Hunter, The End We Start From; Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games; Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains]