re: Timmi Duchamp's observations:
I read Egalia's Daughters for the first time at the suggestion of
a (male) friend last summer. I thought it was a very well-written
biting satire. Perhaps the most important contribution of the book,
at least to me, was just how ARBITRARY the gender roles were
portrayed, ie, completely the result of (wo-)man made conventions of
behaviour. The systematic oppression of men was rationalized
so rediculously, it shed more light on presently (and, even more so,
past) society-dictated gender roles than a direct satire of a male
dominated society would have.
However, although I consider the book a classic, I can't help
wondering if some of the references, no doubt current when the book
was written, passed me by because I am of a different generation.
Which brings me to my next question: Does anybody know of a
more recent book written in a similar vein?
Bonnie Gray
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