The Gate to Women's Country
Classic fantasy from the amazing Sheri S. Tepper. Women rule in Women's Country. Women live apart from men, sheltering the remains of civilization They have cut themselves off with walls and by ordinance from marauding males. Waging war is all men are good for. Men are allowed to fight their...
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Classic fantasy from the amazing Sheri S. Tepper. Women rule in Women's Country. Women live apart from men, sheltering the remains of civilization They have cut themselves off with walls and by ordinance from marauding males. Waging war is all men are good for. Men are allowed to fight their barbaric battles! amongst themselves, garrison against garrison. For the sake of his pride, each boy child ritualistically rejects his mother when he comes of age to be a warrior. But all the secrets of civilization are strictly the possession of women. Naturally, there are men who want to know what the women know! And when Stavia meets Chernon, the battle of the sexes begins all over again. Foolishly, she provides books for Chernon to read. Before long, Chernon is hatching a plan of revenge against women!
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780553280647 (0553280643)
ASIN: 553280643
Publish date: February 1st 1993
Publisher: Spectra
Pages no: 315
Edition language: English
(original review, 1987)“The Gate to Women's Country”, remains the best written and most provocative of the lot when it comes to Feminist SF. It's one of the few books where I turned the last page and flipped back to the first and read it straight through again when I realized how deceptive the text,...
If I had read this when it was first published, in the 80s, I think I would have really liked this book. Alas, I read it now and it mostly made me angry. This book channels second wave feminism pretty heartily, and unfortunately it also falls into some of the movement's pitfalls. Powerfully negati...
Some scenes and characters I enjoyed (Morgot and Septemius more than the main characters, to be honest), but the oversimplification of the different societies described, as well as sexuality and relationships, didn't look very "feminist" to me. It was more a matter of "all men are brutes" (it never ...
2.5 starsThe overall concept was familiar to me, but although I knew where it was going to end up, there were some twists along the way. I've dubbed it "lady sci-fi," and I put [b:The Handmaid's Tale|38447|The Handmaid's Tale|Margaret Atwood|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1294702760s/384...
Sheri S. Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country is one of 21 works added to the SF Masterworks list this year. Of all the works on the list, this may be the one with the strongest and most well written female character, but I found the story itself irritating.This novel is set in the future, after a g...
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