Re: feminist utopia/dystopia

From: Emily Hackbarth (emily@EXO.COM)
Date: Sat Apr 19 1997 - 11:06:00 PDT


> Apologies to anyone on the SFRA list as well who has already heard
> this. Le Guin's The Dispossesses is not a feminist utopia. Instead,
> it is a classic "when the revolution comes everything will be ok
> dearie". It is quite sexist and from a radical feminist point of
> view could be seen as ignoring the real difficulties in favour of
> trivial wrangling between masculinists.
>
> Farah
>

Care to elaborate?

                  Emily Hackbarth
                   emily@exo.com
        http://exo.com/~emily/beadworker.html
   "In a sheet of paper is contained the infinite."
                           Lu Chi



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