This message was mailed to me, so I'm forwarding it to the list -- Joanna
>On 6 Jul 97 , joanna goltzman wrote:
>> One thing I really liked about _The Maerlande Chronicles_ is that it
>> is about a matriarchal society with problems. The society's
>> drawbacks make it believable and more interesting, to me, at least,
>> than a "perfect" society (utopia). Anyone know of more imperfect
>> matriarchal societies I could read about?
>
>What about 'The Women's Shore' (if that is the English title) by
>Pamela Sargent? It plays in a post-catastrophique future in which the
>women live in comfortable cities, the men, controlled by the women,
>outside. The control goes so far that the men do not even know about
>it (they think the women are goddesses). However, the point of the
>story is not to show how a women-only society works. Most of the
>book plays outside of the cities. I liked the book a lot.
>
>The next try is, of course, 'Ammonite' by Nicola Griffith. I have
>read the book several times and love it.
>
>
>On the 'Who's on the list' thread:
>
>I am a mechanical engineer who works in the field of the
>environmental impact assessment of energy systems. Parallelly I try
>to finish my Ph.D. thesis (getting a Ph.D. in Germany works
>differently from the U.S., one is (more or less) fully employed by
>the University and does research projects, no course work)). I also
>work unpaid in the Stuttgart rape center. I am nearly 33, German (any
>other Germans out there on the list?), heterosexual, a feminist for
>some years. My first 'feminist' science fiction was 'The left hand of
>darkness', which made a huge impression on me at 16. I rediscovered
>feminst science fiction 4 years ago and by now have read a lot of it.
>Thanks to Laura Quilter, her homepage helped me a lot in hunting down
>the relevant titles in the bookstores and libraries. Somebody else
>stated in her introduction, that she has never met a fan of feminist
>science fiction in person. The same is (nearly) true for me. I am
>really glad that I found this discussion list.
>
>Petra
>
>** Petra Mayerhofer ** pm@ier.uni-stuttgart.de **
>
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