The Gate to Women’s Country

De: Sheri S. Tepper

Narrado por: Emily Durante

Women rule in Women's Country. Women live apart from men, sheltering the remains of civilization. They have cut themselves off with walls and by ordinance from marauding males. Waging war is all men are good for. Men are allowed to fight their barbaric battles among themselves, garrison against garrison. For the sake of his pride, each boy child ritualistically rejects his mother when he comes of age to be a warrior. But all the secrets of civilization are strictly the possession of women.

Naturally, there are men who want to know what the women know. And when Stavia meets Chernon, the battle of the sexes begins all over again. Foolishly, she provides books for Chernon to read. Before long, Chernon is hatching a plan of revenge against women.

©1988 Sheri S. Tepper (P)2018 Tantor

captivating

it has great world making, or remaking really. I don't know the future plans, but she could do more in this setting

Perhaps Tepper's greatest work in audio book form!!

I highly recommend listening to this book. It is an excellent future dystopian/post-catastrophe story that explores how patriarchy might be eliminated from the human race. Sheri S. Tepper often wrote about gender conflicts and the toxicity of patriarchy - I think this story may be her greatest achievement. I re-read this book just about every year since I found it in 1989; it's been out of print for several years and TRULY deserves to be far better known than it is! The narrator does a fine job differentiating between the different characters and I like her performance in most ways (I think my love for this book is so great that almost no narrator could perfectly satisfy me, except for perhaps Davina Porter....). As someone else said, if you like "The Handmaid's Tale", you'll enjoy this. Now if we could only get "Raising the Stones" as an audio book!!

Discernment

I love this story! I read it back when it came out. I was happy to be able to listen to it now. Excellent story! Well read!

listened more than once

I have listened to this book several times, its one of my favorites. Highly recommend!

This is my favorite dystopian feminist novel

I recommend this book to all my feminist friends. it is a blue print. Let's do it!!