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The Gate to Women's Country

Sheri S. Tepper

4.06/5 (11901 ratings)

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Tepper's finest novel to date is set in a post-holocaust feminist dystopia that offers only two political alternatives: a repressive polygamist sect that is slowly self-destructing through inbreeding and the matriarchal dictatorship called Women's Country. Here, in a desperate effort to prevent another world war, the women have segregated most men into closed military garrisons and have taken on themselves every other function of government, industry, agriculture, science and learning.

The resulting manifold responsibilities are seen through the life of Stavia, from a dreaming 10-year-old to maturity as doctor, mother and member of the Marthatown Women's Council. As in Tepper's Awakeners series books, the rigid social systems are tempered by the voices of individual experience and, here, by an imaginative reworking of The Trojan Woman that runs through the text. A rewarding and challenging novel that is to be valued for its provocative ideas.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 315 pages

Publication:: 1999

Publisher:: Voyager

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0006482708

ISBN13:: 9780006482703

kindle Asin:: B002SXIEXC

The Gate to Women's Country

Sheri S. Tepper

4.06/5 (11901 ratings)

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Tepper's finest novel to date is set in a post-holocaust feminist dystopia that offers only two political alternatives: a repressive polygamist sect that is slowly self-destructing through inbreeding and the matriarchal dictatorship called Women's Country. Here, in a desperate effort to prevent another world war, the women have segregated most men into closed military garrisons and have taken on themselves every other function of government, industry, agriculture, science and learning.

The resulting manifold responsibilities are seen through the life of Stavia, from a dreaming 10-year-old to maturity as doctor, mother and member of the Marthatown Women's Council. As in Tepper's Awakeners series books, the rigid social systems are tempered by the voices of individual experience and, here, by an imaginative reworking of The Trojan Woman that runs through the text. A rewarding and challenging novel that is to be valued for its provocative ideas.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 315 pages

Publication:: 1999

Publisher:: Voyager

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0006482708

ISBN13:: 9780006482703

kindle Asin:: B002SXIEXC

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