My prof in my feminist lit class (all SF/fantasy written by women) used The Best of C.L. Moore, edited by Lester Del Ray, for the two stories we read (Shambleau and Black God's Kiss). I spent the next ten years looking for that collection, and literally squealed in delight when I found it at a Friends of the Library book sale in Lake Zurich in the mid-90s.

There are two separate collections currently in print--Black God's Kiss has all the Jirel of Joiry stories, and Northwest of Earth has all the Northwest Smith stories.

OMG, that sounds like such a fun class, Kathy!

We started out with some Utopian novel from the 18th century that was very forgettable, but then moved right into Frankenstein and then some really great stuff (she tossed in "The Yellow Wallpaper" for its psychological horror), including Moore, Tiptree, and lots of others. I still have the short-story collection we used as our reading material on one of my shelves--I'll have to pull it out tonight and see what else is in there.

I failed it: it told me quite snarkily that I clearly need to read more books by men. *grins*

Ha! I failed it quite spectacularly: 2 out of 10, and one of the correct answers doesn't count because I recognized the book and knew who its author was.

One day, I will find a collected works of Moore. Shambleau is the only one of her shorts I've read and she's so interesting.

I sent Tep the collection of Northwest Smith stories. They're pretty great. Sort of like Han Solo plus alien drugs and freaky sex.

I also failed it and it suggested that I might be a girl. There are times I can tell; I suspected Tiptree back in the day and knew for sure with "The Women Men Don't See," because, well, men really don't see those women.

I got five out of ten on that quiz, and that was mostly pure guessing.

I had a sort of mixed media feminist lit class with a professor I loved at Hunter. We watched Camille and one of the early Joan of Arc movies, and read Emma and Antony and Cleopatra. There was also a book of essays which is out of print now -- it's packed up somewhere.

I got 3 out of 10. I think I reverse-reverse psychologied myself out of a few correct answers, where something read as so thoroughly male that I figured the test-makers were trying to make us second-guess ourselves and think we were outsmarting them by choosing "female," only to have it turn out it actually was written by a male-type person. And then it turned out it actually was written by a woman.

Or something. Anyhow, I talked myself out of at least three correct answers based not on the texts but on what I thought the test-writers thought I would think of the texts.

I did that on the last question, JZ.

I also failed. And assumed VS Naipaul's paragraph was written by a woman.