The Gate to Women's Country

I don't know what it is, but lately I've been feeling like a country where women make all their own decisions about politics, their bodies, human rights and pregnancy sounds pretty fucking great right now. I'm not an idealist by nature, and I went to high school so I know that women can be nasty fuc......more

One reviewer on Goodreads calls The Gate to Women's Country "gender essentialist, heterosexist, cissexist garbage," and it is, I suppose. First published in 1988, The Gate to Women's Country is very second-wave feminist and exhibits many of the problems one would expect from that description. It's a......more

Well, here’s some fantastic feminist science fiction. ‘The Gate to Women’s Country’ takes gender roles, pushes them to the limit and sees a way to both destroy and rebuild them. It presents a compulsively drawn world, which looks forward and back as far as the ancient Greeks, to examine how defined......more

Tepper offers a fascinating meditation on how a post-apocalyptic people might seek to limit the potential for future violence and thus avoid another devastating (presumably nuclear) holocaust. The division of genders into Women's Country and the Warrior society is a deeply unsettling one. The men li......more

This is a tough-minded, beautifully-written, multilayered exploration of the ways in which male-dominated human societies’ attitudes toward the rights and privileges and so-called “mysteries” of women have affected them, and by turns all of us. It does bear mentioning that it is entirely a cisgender......more