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From: dwight@timeinc.UUCP (Dwight Ernest)
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Subject: Re: Hear, Hear!
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Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 17:29:18 EST
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Re: Sexual differentiation in recent science fiction

I, too, was confused about the gender of the characters in
Ursula K. LeGuin's famous "The Left Hand of Darkness" when I
first read it in 1973... I desperately wanted to know which
gender the two major protagonists were members of. Then it
dawned on me (as it apparently did on you, too, Jim) that
this was exactly what the novel was about and that LeGuin
intended us to think about this need to connect characters
with gender. I certainly did, and it was the dawning of
what became a more mature anti-sexist consciousness later
(I hope).

Incidentally, if you can get your hands on "The Left Hand of
Darkness" by LeGuinn, by all means don't pass it up.