WOMEN OF WONDER: SCIENCE FICTION STORIES BY WOMEN ABOUT WOMEN. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by Pamela Sargent by Sargent, Pamela (editor) - 1975

New York: Vintage Books A Division of Random House, 1975. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Vintage V-41. The first feminist science fiction anthology. A useful work with a 52-page introduction and notes by Sargent. Collects twelve stories, including several classics, by Sonya Dorman, Judith Merril, Katherine MacLean, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne McCaffrey, Kit Reed, Kate Wilhelm, Carol Emshwiller, Ursula K. Le Guin, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Joanna Russ, and Vonda N. McIntyre, and a poem by Sonya Dorman. "With a lengthy and well-argued introduction by the editor, it is perhaps the most solid (and has proved the most influential) of all the 'feminist' SF anthologies published in the 1970s." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 425. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1412. A fine copy. (#156479)