UKLe Guin's short story, The Day Before the Revolution, makes me weep every time I reread it. The anarchist matriarch who has worked her whole long life builing the possibility of Anarres (as told in The Dispossessed) wakes up on an ordinary day, stretches, interacts with some of her revolutionary pals, and dies in her sleep.
Suzette Haden Elgin's "Native Tongue" series also features the post-menopausal women who run the women's houses, create the decoy women's languages, and plan for a better future over several generations.
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Wed, Mar. 21st, 2012 01:23 am (UTC)Suzette Haden Elgin's "Native Tongue" series also features the post-menopausal women who run the women's houses, create the decoy women's languages, and plan for a better future over several generations.