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Original Title:	The Gate to Women's Country
ISBN:	0006482708 (ISBN13: 9780006482703)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Sylvia, Stavia, Chernon, Morgot, Jerby, Dawid, Beneda, Myra Morgotdoughter
Setting:	Marthatown
Literary Awards:	Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (1992), Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (1998)

The Gate to Women's Country

Sheri S. Tepper

Paperback | Pages: 315 pages

Rating: 4.05 | 12149 Users | 746 Reviews

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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 provocative ideas.

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Title	:	The Gate to Women's Country
Author	:	Sheri S. Tepper
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 315 pages
Published	:	1999 by Voyager (first published November 1st 1987)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy. Dystopia. Feminism

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Ratings: 4.05 From 12149 Users | 746 Reviews

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Firstly, how can anyone rate such an atrociously written book as high as I see it done in hundreds of ratings? Dear me, I was wincing all the time while reading. The excruciatingly bad prose, including some horrific abuse of grammar, was having an effect like a severe toothache on me. Where was the fecking editor of this book? Because this sort of prose was in no way typical of writers of the 1980s (book is from 1987), when you get such female SciFi, Fantasy and spec authors as C.J. Cherryh,

If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.Hoodwinking Readers: The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper(original review, 1987)The Gate to Women's Country, remains the best written and most provocative of the lot when it comes to Feminist SF. It's one of the few books where I turned the last page and flipped back to the first and read it straight through again when I realized how deceptive the text, itself, was. I love when Septimus Bird tips Tepper's hand by noting that

This is probably the worst science fiction book that I have ever actually finished reading. Tepper's agenda gets in the way of any developed narrative as she instead uses hundreds of pages to voice her disgust for the male gender in a fashion reminiscent of a jaded high school girls blog. As a man who strongly opposes the alpha male, meathead style of masculinity, I found this book particularly ignorant.

My last update stated that I wasn't sure how I feel about this story. I am now finished and the best I can come up with is that I am conflicted. While I think I can understand how a society chooses to rebuild after a terrible event, and that society makes certain decisions so that terrible event doesn't happen again, I am not sure if they are the right decisions. I was bothered by the lies. I am not sure if a society built on lies would last. The whole selective breeding, like reindeer and other

The Gloria Steinem of second-wave-inspired post-apocalyptic novels of gender separation? (making Walk to the End of the World Shulamith Firestone, perhaps, and The Shore of Women... Simone de Beauvoir? I don't know, I haven't actually read those two yet) Anyway my point is that this is the sort-of-essentialist (but maybe not?) liberal feminist version of the story, wherein men and women are fundamentally different and need to be mostly kept separate for their own good, except for those

What a let down. Sure, the plot kept me going, but I resent anyone, male or female, who confuses feminism with man-hating. As a woman, I found this book profoundly insulting to the men I love, and even many of the men I don't. The only men who aren't lying, raping, manipulative butchers are some sort of mutant freaks that the women are trying to breed for? What kind of equality is that? What kind of dialogue of mutual understanding will come out of reading this? Ursula Le Guin can not only write

I hate this book. Maybe I should read it again, but there's so many other books I want to read, so many other books I'd rather read again than this one.Maybe there was some sort of thing I missed the first time I read it in college, but mostly it made me mad.They got rid of homosexuality, most of the men are brutes and fascist and violent, except for the servitors. Yet the women still have sex with the brutish men even as they are trying to breed them out of existence.Then you get some random