There are several aspects to the roles of women in speculative fiction, including their participation as authors of speculative fiction and their role in speculative fiction fandom.
A 1911 illustration from Camille Flammarion's La Fin du monde. It depicts a fictional future society in which all women are beautiful and have lovely voices.
Joanna Russ was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, a