We Have Always Fought

Short story by Kameron Hurley

"'We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative"
Short story by Kameron Hurley
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Essay
Publication
Published in	A Dribble of Ink
Publication type	Fanzine
Publisher	Aidan Moher
Media type	Online
Publication date	May 20, 2013

"'We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative" is an essay by science fiction writer Kameron Hurley, addressing the portrayal of women in science fiction, and in general. It was first published as a post to A Dribble of Ink in May 2013, and was republished in Lightspeed's special issue "Women Destroy Science Fiction".

In 2014, it won the Hugo Award for Best Related Work, the same year that Hurley won Hugo for Best Fan Writer.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

^ Taylor, Chris (August 18, 2014). "Game of Thrones beats Doctor Who at Hugo Awards". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
^ Standlee, Kevin (August 17, 2014). "2014 Hugo Award Winners". The Hugo Awards. World Science Fiction Society. Retrieved August 17, 2014.
^ "2014 Hugo Award Statistics" (PDF). Loncon 3. August 17, 2014. Archived from the original on August 19, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

External links

Text of the essay at A Dribble of Ink

Feminist science fiction

Writers by time period

14th–15th century	Christine de Pizan (1364–1430)
17th century	Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673)
18th century	Marie-Anne Robert (1705–1771) Mary Griffith (1772–1846)
19th century	Mary Shelley (1797–1851) Jane Wells Webb Loudon (1807–1858) Annie Denton Cridge (1825–1875) Rhoda Broughton (1840–1920) Bertha von Suttner (1843–1914) Auguste Groner (1850–1929) Irene Clyde (1869–1954) Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett (1846–1930) Renée Marie Gouraud d'Ablancourt (1853–1941) Mary E. Bradley Lane (1844–1930) Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain (1880–1932) Rosa Rosà (1884—1978) Miriam Allen DeFord (1888–1975) Aurora Bertrana (1892—1974) Anna Banti (1895—1985) L. Taylor Hansen (1897–1976)
20th century	Karin Boye (1900—1941) Stella Gibbons (1902–1989) Leslie F. Stone (1905–1991) C. L. Moore (1911–1987) James Tiptree Jr. (1915—1987) Alice Eleanor Jones (1916–1981) Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) Elisabeth Mann-Borgese (1918—2002) Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) Marlen Haushofer (1920–1970) Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920–2005) Carol Emshwiller (1921–2019) Virginia Kidd (1921—2003) Judith Merril (1923–1997) Kate Wilhelm (1928—2018) Sonya Dorman (1924–2005) Angélica Gorodischer (1928–2022) Kate Wilhelm (1928—018) Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) Sheri S. Tepper (1929—2016) Sally Miller Gearhart (1931—2021) Fay Weldon (1931—2023) Nancy Bogen b. 1932 Sophie Behr (b. 1935) Marge Piercy b. 1936 Joanna Russ (1937–2011) Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) Suzy McKee Charnas (1939–2023) Jutta Heinrich (1940-2021) Gerd Brantenberg (b. 1941) Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) Eleanor Arnason (b. 1942) Samuel R. Delany (b. 1942) Donna Haraway (b. 1944 Rachel Pollack (1945–2023) Elizabeth A. Lynn b. 1946 Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) Joëlle Wintrebert b. 1949) Lois McMaster Bujold b. 1949 Dubravka Ugrešić b. 1949 Roz Kaveney b. 1949 Karen Joy Fowler (b. 1950) L. Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) Charlotte Kerner b. 1950 Leigh Kennedy (b. 1951) Stéphanie Nicot (b. 1952) Marleen S. Barr (b. 1953) Pat Murphy (b. 1955) Ellen Kushner (b. 1955) Montse Watkins (1955–2000) Joan Slonczewski (b. 1956) Mary Gentle (b. 1956) Laura J. Mixon (b. 1957) Luce Basseterre [fr] (b. 1957) Rieko Matsuura (b. 1958) Ninni Holmqvist (b. 1958) Mari Kotani (b. 1958) Nicoletta Vallorani (b. 1958) Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959) Lucie Chenu (b. 1960) Neil Gaiman (b. 1960) Melissa Scott (b. 1960) Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) Nicola Griffith (b. 1960) Gabriela Bustelo (b. 1962) Lola Robles (b. 1963) Hiroe Suga (b. 1963) Jo Walton (b. 1964) Heidrun Jänchen(b. 1964) Tananarive Due (b. 1966) Catherine Dufour (b. 1966) Ann Leckie (b. 1966) Virginia Bergin (b. 1966) Justine Larbalestier (b. 1967) Kelly Robson (b. 1967) Yumiko Shirai (b. 1967) Sara Doke (b. 1968) Annalee Newitz (b. 1969) Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) Lisa Yaszek (b. 1969) Barbara Kirchner [fr] (b. 1970) Kelly Sue DeConnick (b. 1970) Li-Cam (b. 1970) Fumi Yoshinaga (b. 1971) N. K. Jemisin (b. 1972) Sheree R. Thomas (b. 1972) Naomi Novik (b. 1973) Kiini Ibura Salaam (b. 1973) Sabrina Calvo (b. 1974) Juli Zeh (b. 1974) Nnedi Okorafor (b. 1974) Catherynne M. Valente (b. 1979) Kameron Hurley (b. 1980) Judith C. Vogt (b. 1981) Nghi Vo (b. 1981) Tang Fei (b. 1983) Amal El-Mohtar (b. 1984) Hao Jingfang (b. 1984) Theresa Hannig (b. 1984) Becky Chambers (b. 1985) Tamsyn Muir (b. 1985) Aline Valek (b. 1986) Akwaeke Emezi (b. 1987) Nadia Chonville [fr] (b. 1989) Floriane Soulas (1989-) Xiran Jay Zhao (b. 1997) Benjanun Sriduangkaew (b. ?) Vandana Singh (b. ?)

Notable works by date

15th century	The Book of the City of Ladies (1405)
17th century	The Blazing World (1666)
18th century	Voyage de Milord Céton dans les sept planètes (1765)
19th century	Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) Man's Rights; Or, How Would You Like It? (1870) Mizora (1880) Das Maschinenalter entsteht (1889) New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future (1889) Iola Leroy (1892) Unveiling a Parallel (1893) Arqtiq (1899)
20th century	NEQUA or The Problem of the Ages (1900) Sultana's Dream (1905) Beatrice the Sixteenth (1909) Moving the Mountain (novel) (1911) Herland (1915) Shambleau (1933) That Only a Mother (1948) Angel Island (novel) (1949) Survival Ship [fr] (1951) Life, Incorporated (1955) The Haunting of Hill House (1959) A Wrinkle in Time (1962) Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962) When I Was Miss Dow (1966) Aye, and Gomorrah (1967) The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) And Chaos Died (1970) The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You (1971) The Word for World is Forest (1972) When It Changed (1972) Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home (1973) The Women Men Don't See (1973) The Dispossessed (1974) The Girl Who Was Plugged In (1974) The Holdfast Chronicles (1974) The Female Man (1975) Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) Houston, Houston, Do You Read? (1976) The Female Man (1977) Egalia's Daughters (1977) Up the Walls of the World (1978) The Eye of the Heron (1978) Star Songs of an Old Primate (1978) Kindred (1979) The Vampire Tapestry (1980) The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980) Souls (story) (1982) Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1983) Native Tongue (Elgin novel) (1984) The Handmaid's Tale (1985) Brightness Falls from the Air (1985) A Door into Ocean (1986) Golden Days (novel) (1987) Lilith's Brood (1987) Rachel in Love (1987) The Gate to Women's Country (1988) Âmes (1989) Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (1990) Brightness Falls from the Air (1990) Beauty (Tepper novel) (1991) He, She and It (1991) Chroniques du pays des mères (1992) The Matter of Seggri (1993) The Fifth Sacred Thing (1993) Brown Girl in the Ring (novel) (1998)
21st century	The Fresco (2000) Tales from Earthsea (2001) Parable of the Sower (2003) Bu Bu Jing Xin (2005) Fledgling (2005) Le Goût de l'immortalité (2005) Choir Boy (2005) The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010) Who Fears Death (2010) Lavinia (2008) The Alchemy of Stone (2008) The Method (novel) (2009) Six Months, Three Days (2011) Ancillary Justice (2013) Scale-Bright (2014) The Automation (2014) The Fifth Season (2015) Binti (2015) The Obelisk Gate (2016) Toxoplasma (2017) Winterglass (2017) All the Birds in the Sky (2018) The Stars Are Legion [fr] (2018) This Is How You Lose the Time War (2019) The Empress of Salt and Fortune (2020) When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (2020) The Future of Another Timeline (2021) Victories Greater Than Death (2021) Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak (2022) The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer (2022) The Daughter of Doctor Moreau (2022) Promises Stronger Than Darkness (2023)

Genres and concepts

Essays,
anthologies,
critiques by year

Women of Wonder (1975)
Aurora: Beyond Equality (1976)
The Language of the Night (1979)
More Women of Wonder (1979)
How to Suppress Women's Writing (1983)
A Cyborg Manifesto (1984)
To Write Like a Woman (1995)
We Have Always Fought (2013)
The Geek Feminist Revolution (2016)
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (2000)
She's such a geek! : women write about science, technology & other nerdy stuff (2006)
Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times By Making Up Stories (2021)