The Zanzibar Cat is a feminist science fiction

Feminist science fiction

Feminist science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction which tends to deal with women's roles in society. Feminist science fiction poses questions about social issues such as how society constructs gender roles, the role reproduction plays in defining gender and the unequal political and...

 collection of short stories

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

 by Joanna Russ

Joanna Russ

Joanna Russ was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny...

, first published in 1983

1983 in literature

The year 1983 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Ironweed by William Kennedy is published.*Salvage for the Saint by Peter Bloxsom and John Kruse is published. This is the final book in a series of novels, novellas and short stories featuring the Leslie Charteris...

 by Arkham House

Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...

. It was the author's first collection of short fiction and was published in an edition of 3,526 copies. The story, "When It Changed

When It Changed

"When It Changed" is a science fiction short story by Joanna Russ. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story 1973, and won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 1972. It was included in Harlan Ellison's anthology Again, Dangerous Visions....

", won a Nebula Award

Nebula Award

The Nebula Award is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the previous year...

 in 1972. "Old Thoughts, Old Balances" won a 1977 O. Henry Prize under the title "The Autobiography of My Mother".

Arkham House

• "Foreword" by Marge Piercy
  Marge Piercy
  Marge Piercy is an American poet, novelist, and social activist. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Gone to Soldiers, a sweeping historical novel set during World War II.-Biography:...
  
  
• "When It Changed"
• "The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand"
• "The Soul of a Servant"
• "Gleepsite"
• "Nobody's Home"
• "My Dear Emily"
• "The New Men"
• "My Boat"
• "Useful Phrases for the Tourist"
• "Corruption"
• "There is Another Shore, You Know, Upon the Other Side"
• "A Game of Vlet"
• "How Dorothy Kept Away the Spring"
• "Poor Man, Beggar Man"
• "Old Thoughts, Old Presences"
• "The Zanzibar Cat"

Baen

• "When It Changed"
• "The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand"
• "The Soul of a Servant"
• "The Man Who Could Not See Devils"
• "Gleepsite"
• "Nobody's Home"
• "My Dear Emily"
• "There is Another Shore, You Know, Upon the Other Side"
• "My Boat"
• "Useful Phrases for the Tourist"
• "Dragons and Dimwits"
• "Corruption"
• "The Precious Object"
• "The New Men"
• "A Game of Vlet"
• "The Zanzibar Cat"