- ^ Several scholars regard the 1980s as when this shift began, citing Robin McKinley's Damar tales (1982–1984) and Tamora Pierce's Alanna (1983) as among its exemplars,[6][7][8] but Michael Levy and Farah Mendlesohn trace its origin further back to Patricia McKillip's The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974).[3]
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