Femzine
Femzine was a US fanzine started by Marion Cox which specialized in material by women, associated with the Fanettes. Its history remains somewhat murky, but per Fancyclopedia 2 it was already in existence (as the group's OO?) in January 1953, see its Fanettes entry. Fan To See #1 (Jan 1953 but clearly prepared at the end of the previous year) reviewed Femzine #2 (as a quarterly), so we may conclude that it was founded in 1952. It was then promoted in Mari Wolf's "Fandora's Box" (Imagination February 1953[1] and several following)[2] and other prozines, though often as "new".[3]
Other femmefans who were involved in the zine were Juanita Coulson, Honey Wood, and Noreen Falasca. When Cox had publishing problems, the zine was continued for a couple of issues by Coulson and Lee Anne Tremper. It had folded by May 1956 (or earlier, as mentioned in Femizine 8, March 1956: "I hear that the U.S. venture 'FEMZINE' has folded"), whereupon Juanita filled out members’ subscriptions with Yandro, as announced in its #40.
| Issue | Date | Pages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 26 |
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/Imagination_v04n02_1953-02_UnkSc-cape1736/page/n147/?q=femzine
- ↑ Specifically May and July issues, which would confirm the quarterly regularity. Sadly Wolf did not specify the issues/dates, but listed some contents: it would seem they slanted toward fiction.
- ↑ As summarised, perhaps not quite reliably, in Eric Leif Davin's Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926–1965, 2005, pages 91–2
See also:
- STF-ETTE (first women-only zine, 1940–1)
- Femizine (more famous British almost-namesake, 1954–6 and 1958–60; sometimes misspelled "Femzine" even in the Imagination)
- Pandora (fanzine launched 1978 with the subtitle "a femzine")
- pro comics mag Femzine (Paragon Publications, 1981).
| Publication | 1952—1956 |
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