Re: [*FSFFU*] feminist dystopias

From: Pat (mathews@UNM.EDU)
Date: Tue Nov 11 1997 - 13:55:18 PST


On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Michelle Bernard wrote:

>
> Charnas' two (is there a 3rd? I'll try and find it)

        Yes. It's called "The Furies". The theme is - after the revolution,
now what? Will there be a reign of terror? Can some of your old
oppressors be more trustworthy than your old comrades-in-arms?

works that Robin is
> thinking of are "Walk to the End of the Earth" and "Motherlines" that I
> read bound together into one volume. I didn't read "Motherlines" as a
> dystopia, but that's probably because I read it on the heels of the
> first and by comparison it was positive.

        Yes, and did anybody notice how it was about, among other things,
slavery? And its affect on the freedwomen?

Patricia (Pat) Mathews
mathews@unm.edu



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