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"'''The Matter of Seggri'''" is a short story by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]. It was first published in the magazine [[Crank!]] in [[1994]] and was included in the [[2002]] collection ''[[The Birthday of the World]]''. The story takes place in the [[Ekumen Universe|Ekumen universe]] and depicts a world in which the few men live apart from the women in "castles" and have very little power to shape society. In this way, the story is somewhat of a [[Gender Role Reversal|gender role reversal]] scenario. But there are other ways in which it is not.

It was a co-winner of the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award|Tiptree Award]] in [[1994]].

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