Read this years ago--under a different title (UK edition), possibly GETA? Is
this the one with group marriages? I remember feeling that the author had
created strong and competent female characters but then subjected them to a
variety of gothic horrors (imprisonment, torture, giving birth in a
charnel-house) which did not happen, in my recollection, to the equally strong
and competent male characters. There was also, as I recall, one of those
sinister all-female hive type societies... And wasn't one of the main plot
drivers succeed or be eaten?
Lesley
Lesley_Hall@classic.msn.com
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From: For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature on behalf
of Neil Rest
Sent: 25 September 1997 17:29
To: FEMINISTSF@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU
Subject: [*FSFFU*] _Courtship Rite_
was Re: Wonder Woman (was Re: Are we talking about Feminist SF?)
Has anyone else read _Courtship Rite_ by Don Kingsbury? It had the sad
distinction of being on the Hugo ballot against Asimov, Clarke and
Bradbury, or some such combination.
It has a wider array of "social strategies" than anything else I can think
of: the society is made up of little craft-clans (for lack of a better word
-- it's been a while since I read it), each competing in a kind of social
ecology for a good niche. (There's lots more to the story, too!)
Neil Rest
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