When the Guardian reviewed The Carhullan Army it dismissed women’s dystopian fiction as a “low-key subgenre”.
One productive seam is to put your characters in alternative worlds, as Jeanette Winterson did in her 2007 novel, The Stone Gods.
The speculative feminist utopia constructed by Charlotte Perkins-Gilman in her provocative 1915 novel, Herland, is often cited as the first of its kind.
On an Earth blasted by the hot winds of a changed climate 200 years from now, who will be in charge?