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• Introduction (The Future Is Female!) • essay by Lisa Yaszek
• The Miracle of the Lily • (1928) • novelette by Clare Winger Harris
• The Conquest of Gola • (1931) • short story by Leslie F. Stone
• The Black God's Kiss • [Jirel of Joiry] • (1934) • novelette by C. L. Moore (variant of Black God's Kiss)
• Space Episode • (1941) • short story by Leslie Perri
• That Only a Mother • (1948) • short story by Judith Merril
• In Hiding • [Children of the Atom] • (1948) • novelette by Wilmar H. Shiras
• Contagion • (1950) • novelette by Katherine MacLean
• The Inhabited Men • (1951) • short story by Margaret St. Clair
• Ararat • [The People] • (1952) • novelette by Zenna Henderson
• All Cats Are Gray • (1953) • short story by Andre Norton [as by Andrew North]
• Created He Them • (1955) • short story by Alice Eleanor Jones
• Mr. Sakrison's Halt • (1956) • short story by Mildred Clingerman
• All the Colors of the Rainbow • (1957) • novelette by Leigh Brackett
• Pelt • (1958) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• Car Pool • (1959) • novelette by Rosel George Brown
• For Sale, Reasonable • (1959) • short story by Elizabeth Mann Borgese
• Birth of a Gardener • (1961) • short story by Doris Pitkin Buck
• The Tunnel Ahead • (1961) • short story by Alice Glaser
• The New You • (1962) • short story by Kit Reed
• Another Rib • (1963) • short story by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Juanita Coulson [as by Marion Zimmer Bradley and John Jay Wells]
• When I Was Miss Dow • (1966) • short story by Sonya Dorman
• Baby, You Were Great • (1967) • short story by Kate Wilhelm (variant of Baby, You Were Great!)
• The Barbarian • [Alyx] • (1968) • novelette by Joanna Russ
• The Last Flight of Dr. Ain • (1969) • short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Nine Lives • (1969) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Biographical Notes (The Future Is Female!) • essay by uncredited