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One of my all time favorite books. I like how the power roles between the sexes on the moon are reversed too. The matriarch has all the power because women are
by jfolkins 9y ago
One of my all time favorite books.
I like how the power roles between the sexes on the moon are reversed too. The matriarch has all the power because women are scarce and they take on many husbands out of this need. They always hold the cards and culturally everyone accepts this.
Also, because the value of women is so high no man ever dares attack one less they be sent out an airlock. It is cultural justice. No trial. A man just knows that if he is seen assaulting a woman, he is dead. The community can't afford to lose a single female.
Plus with all the talk of the A.I. Armageddon the book plays right into that discussion.
- pm90 9y agoMany societies have historically been matriarchal. It just happened that Christianity, Islam (maybe Judaism? not sure...) were patriarchal and societies that embraces these religions came to dominate most of the other society/ peoples. I do hope the future will be more "centrist", neither patriarchal nor matriarchal.
- bluGill 9y agoThe American west was once very lopsided as well, males became cowboys and the women rarely traveled west. In one generation the few women out west had equal numbers of both gender kids and now that history is not important to the culture. The book is interesting, but it was written for a society that doesn't exist. Women and men will not be as lopsided in a colony. The first few ships might be mostly male construction workers, but after that expect to see a much closer balance.