> But I can't think of many messiah-novels in which the messiah is female (it's
> only one story in the aforementioned), even by women (maybe Parable of the
> Sower): perhaps messianism as such is not something women aspire to? or
> actually find a rather dubious proposition. (Thinking of the forces male
> messiahs unleash in fiction and fact)
Define "messiah." Jane Yolen's fantasy _Sister Light, Sister Dark_ and _White
Jenna_ had a (somewhat unwilling) female religious/political/war leader figure,
though not on nearly such a grand scale as _Dune_ (which I have't read in
several years).
--Carrie
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