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Ursula K. LeGuin

Ursula K. LeGuin

   

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Gender roles were being redefined in 1969, when Left Hand of Darkness was published. At a 1968 protest against the Miss America Pageant, these women voiced their opposition to what they saw as a practice of objectifying women.

Gender roles were being redefined in 1969, when Left Hand of Darkness...

 LeGuin wrote The Left Hand of Darkness during the Sixties, a time when gender-bending, free-love scenes—like this one at a love-in in Los Angeles, California—were common.

LeGuin wrote The Left Hand of Darkness during the Sixties, a time when...