The Gate To Women's Country
Sherri Tepper
The Gate To Women’s Country, published in 1988 was/is arguably the
finest of Tepper's 35 novels to date.
Women’s Country is a post-apocalyptic yarn of a feminist dystopia that
offers only two alternatives: a repressive polygamist sect that is slowly but
surely self-destructing through inbreeding and a matriarchal dictatorship
called, appropriately enough, Women’s Country.
The women, in an attempt to prevent another nuclear war, have segregated
most of the men into contained military garrisons outside Women’s Country
where they are allowed to play their testosterone-induced war games under
the guise of protection warriors. The women live in Women’s Country
where they have taken on the peaceful functions of government, industry,
agriculture, science and education aided by a small group of non-violent
male servitors.
Two societies, two competing dreams, two ways of life kept apart by walls
stronger than stone. And yet there is a gate between them . . . The Gate to
Women’s Country. A thought-provoking plot that is well-written.
/tdw/
Sherri Tepper
The Gate To Women’s Country, published in 1988 was/is arguably the
finest of Tepper's 35 novels to date.
Women’s Country is a post-apocalyptic yarn of a feminist dystopia that
offers only two alternatives: a repressive polygamist sect that is slowly but
surely self-destructing through inbreeding and a matriarchal dictatorship
called, appropriately enough, Women’s Country.
The women, in an attempt to prevent another nuclear war, have segregated
most of the men into contained military garrisons outside Women’s Country
where they are allowed to play their testosterone-induced war games under
the guise of protection warriors. The women live in Women’s Country
where they have taken on the peaceful functions of government, industry,
agriculture, science and education aided by a small group of non-violent
male servitors.
Two societies, two competing dreams, two ways of life kept apart by walls
stronger than stone. And yet there is a gate between them . . . The Gate to
Women’s Country. A thought-provoking plot that is well-written.
/tdw/
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