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More Perilous and Fair: Women and Gender in Mythopoeic Fantasy
August 2-3, 2025

Conference chairs: Cami Agan, Clare Moore, and Robin Anne Reid

Proceedings series editor: Janet Brennan Croft

This collection of papers presented at the Mythopoeic Society’s 2025 online conference focuses on intersectional feminist approaches to women and gender in fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction, and other mythopoeic work. The conference honored the first anthology on women and Tolkien, Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien (2015), edited by Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie A. Donovan.

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Table of Contents

Introduction: More Perilous and Fair
— Cami Agan, Clare Moore, and Robin Anne Reid

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Still Perilous, Still Fair: Perspectives on the Legacy, or How (not)Éowyn and (not)Galadriel Made the Magic Work
— Leslie A. Donovan and Janet Brennan Croft

Belief After the Death of King Arthur: Lev Grossman’s Postsecular Portrayal of Nimue in The Bright Sword
— Liz Busby

Sex, the Body, and Learning Gender: Demons in the World of the Five Gods
— Erin McBrien

Grendel’s Mother Talks Back: Contemporary Women’s Mythopoeic Revisions
— Anna Smol

“Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans”: Melian’s and Lúthien’s Numinosity
— Alexandra (Oleksandra) Filonenko

Notes

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