Re: [*FSFFU*] feminist dystopias

From: Laura Wigod (laura@OAKRIDGE.COM)
Date: Wed Nov 12 1997 - 09:29:41 PST


I need encouragement to read "Walk to the End of the Earth." I read
"Motherlines" about a month ago and thoroughly enjoyed it (although I had
some difficulty with the mating with horses part - but at least that's a
more practical solution than a lot of femscifi novels where two women just
emotionally connect and have their eggs spontaneously split).

So I ran out and got WTTEOFE and, maybe it's the cover (woman in chains on
her knees - macho guys hovering above her), maybe it's just too depressing
to read of a world not so far off from our own, but......the book is
sitting on my nightstand, week after week, while I whiz through a dozen
other books.

Will this book depress me?

Laura

>Charnas' two (is there a 3rd? I'll try and find it) 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.
>misha
>
>>----------
>>From: Robin Reid[SMTP:Robin_Reid@TAMU-COMMERCE.EDU]
>>Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 1997 8:55 AM
>>To: FEMINISTSF@listserv.uic.edu
>>Subject: [*FSFFU*] feminist dystopias
>>
>Suzy McKee Charnas' _Motherlines_ trilogy (and those titles have escaped
>>me totally, but I think all three are in print) are all dystopias that
>>explore similar ideas and territory as THT.
>>
>>Robin
>>



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