The Gate to Women’s Country (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Sheri S. Tepper
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—feminist
- Time of Work: The twenty-fourth century
- Setting: The fictional community of Marthatown
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Feminism, Women, Men, Genetics, Birth control
- Locales: Earth, alternate versions of
The Plot
Three centuries after most of Earth is devastated and left radioactive by wars, human survivors have evolved a dual civilization. Most men, as well as boys from an early age, live in military garrisons learning martial arts and military values. All women, aided by a handful of pacific male servitors and small children, live in womens country, small communities dominated by females and by the feminine values of nurturance, nonviolence, and love. Sexual intercourse between members of the womens towns and garrison males is permitted only during periodic Carnival...
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