>Some other things to think about are the works that ostensibly have
>women and men existing together (these two are very different, and i'm
>not sure I like the implications of Sargent's) Tepper's _Gate to Women's
>Country_ and Sargent's _Shore of Women_. Men aren't entirely eliminated
>(used for procreation) but it was also a man-made catastrophe/war that
>caused a situation women took advantage of.
The interesting part (for me) about _Gate to Women's Country_ was the
secret that it wasn't the warriors begetting children, but the gentle
men that the women had let back into their cities and who supposedly
lived with the women's families as "servants". When I found that out near
the end of the book I was genuinely surprised. I really liked the idea that
the women really didn't want to get rid of men entirely, that they were
willing to let men back into their cities and their lives as long as the men
behaved themselves. I don't want to spark a heated debate on the
list, but I find it hard to read books that are hateful towards men. I know
I for one wouldn't want to live without them (after all, who would open jars
for me?) ;-)
Cami
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