Literature
science fiction and fantasy pulp magazines were directed mainly at boys. Female characters were only occasionally included in science fiction pulp stories; the male protagonists' lengthly explanations to the women with limited knowledge revealed the plots Eric Garber, Lyn Paleo, "Preface" in Uranian worlds.Eric Leif Davin, for instance, documented almost 1,000 stories published in science fiction magazines by over 200 female-identified authors between 1926 and 1960.
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