Reconciliation In

Title: Reconciliation In "The Matter Of Seggri"
Creator: Wight, Linda
Date: 2009
Type: Text; Journal article
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/103113
Identifier: vital:10880
Identifier: ISSN:1079-8072
Abstract: The fictional separatist society is one of the best recognised tropes of feminist SF, or, one might say, SF that concerns itself with foregrounding and exploring gender issues, as in the work of Joanna Russ, Suzy McKee Charnas, and Pamela Sargent. Unlike texts which depict men and women either live in either a patriarchial or matriarchal gender dystopia, separatist texts usually depict fictional worlds where men and women either live in spatially separate societies, or worlds from which men have excluded altogether. Of course separatist texts can also include a gender hierarchy, with one gender enjoying more privileges and holding some sort of power over the other. In Ursula K. Le Guin's "The matter of Seggri" (1994), for instance, women are perceived to be the superior gender.
Relation: Paradoxa Vol. 21, no. (2009), p. 166-184
Rights: Copyright Paradoxa
Rights: This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject: Magic; Art; Religion
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Reconciliation In "The Matter Of Seggri"