Passes the "Bechdel Test" Publik

Skapades av Phil in SF

This list contains books that:

  • have at least two women in them,
  • who talk to each other,
  • about something other than a man.

Wikipedia has a decent intro on the origins of the metric: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test

Beware that this test is very limited in probative value. "The Bechdel test only indicates whether women are present in a work of fiction to a certain degree. A work may pass the test and still contain sexist content, and a work with prominent female characters may fail the test." This is just one thing a person may want to consider in their reading. There are many others.

I (@kingrat@sfba.club) track this in my reading as a check to make sure I am including reading that includes non-token female characters because American publishing often overly focuses on men's stories, and that is quite often reflected even more …

  1. Babel av 

    Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.

    1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in …

    Phil in SF säger:

    Babel is told from the perspective of a young man named Robin, so the narrative can only see the conversations of women when Robin is there for them. However, Robin does get to witness his friends Letty and Victoire discuss balls and translation and probably a few other things I haven't got to yet.

  2. An Unbreakable World av 

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    If something seems too good to be real, you’ve got to get out of there.

    That’s the rule that …

  3. The Fortune Seller av 

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    Yellowjackets meets The Cloisters in this beguiling coming-of-age story about class, reinvention, and destiny, set against the backdrop of two …

  4. Bunny av  (Bunny, #1)

    Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren …

  5. Wool av  (Silo, #1)

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    The first book in the acclaimed, New York Times best-selling trilogy, Wool is the story of mankind clawing for survival …

  6. In the Moon’s House av 

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    A new Lady Astronaut story! Dawn struggles to fit in with the rest of her team--the backup crew for the …

  7. The Alice Network av 

    In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life …

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