The Gate To Women's Country: A Novel - Hardcover

Tepper, Sheri S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385247095 ISBN 13: 9780385247092

Publisher: Doubleday, 1988

Synopsis

In a futuristic society where the sexes are separated, men are warriors, and women cultivate the arts, Stavia disobeys the group's prohibitions by loving a man forbidden to her, setting the stage for a momentous decision

About this title

About the Author:

Sheri Tepper was born in Colorado. A longtime writer of children's stories, she sold her first book for adults in 1982. She and her husband now live on a ranch in New Mexico with a variety of animals.

From Publishers Weekly:

Tepper's finest novel to date is set in a post-holocaust feminist dystopia that offers only two political alternatives: a repressive polygamist sect that is slowly self-destructing through inbreeding and the matriarchal dictatorship called Women's Country. Here, in a desperate effort to prevent another world war, the women have segregated most men into closed military garrisons and have taken on themselves every other function of government, industry, agriculture, science and learning. The resulting manifold responsibilities are seen through the life of Stavia, from a dreaming 10-year-old to maturity as doctor, mother and member of the Marthatown Women's Council. As in Tepper's Awakeners series books, the rigid social systems are tempered by the voices of individual experience and, here, by an imaginative reworking of The Trojan Woman that runs through the text. A rewarding and challenging novel that is to be valued for its provoc ative ideas. 50,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0385247095
• ISBN 13: 9780385247092
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 278