The Wanderground

The cover of the 1985 The Women's Press edition.

The Wanderground is a central lesbian separatist text from the 70s, by Sally Miller Gearhart.

In near-future earth, Mother Nature has revolted from the abuse heaped upon her: technology does not work and men are impotent outside of cities. Women (the hill-women) have created an alternate society based on psychic skills, communion with nature, and parthenogenesis. Women also infiltrate the cities (still run by straight men) and work with male homosexuals (the "gentles"). Even the Gentles, men no longer driven by violence, know that "maleness touched women only with the accumulated hatred of centuries", according to critic Peter Nicholls

Similarly themed works

• For similarly themed material, see Rochelle Singer's Demeter Flower.

Editions

• Jan 1978, Watertown, Mass.: Persephone Press, ISBN 0-930436-02-4. (trade paperback, as The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women)
• Jan 1979, Watertown, Mass.: Persephone Press, ISBN 0-930436-02-4. (trade paperback, as The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women)
• Mar 1979, Watertown, Mass.: Persephone Press, ISBN 0-930436-02-4. (trade paperback, as The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women) with Illustrations by Elizabeth Ross, cover by Maria von Brincken
• Dec 1980, Watertown, Mass.: Persephone Press, ISBN 0-930436-02-4. (trade paperback, as Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women)
• 1984, Women's Press, ISBN 0-317-03219-4. (paperback, as The Wanderground)
• Jun 1984, Boston, Mass.: Alyson Books, ISBN 0-932870-55-4. (paperback, as Wanderground)
• Apr 1985, London: The Women's Press, ISBN 0-7043-3947-1. (paperback, as The Wanderground) with Illustrations by Elizabeth Ross, cover by Lesli Sternberg
• May 2002, Minneapolis, Minn.: Spinsters Ink Books, ISBN 1-883523-47-8. (paperback, as The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women)

References

Notes

Bibliography

• Clute, John and Peter Nicholls. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. New York: St Martin's Griffin, 1993 (2nd edition 1995). ISBN 0-312-13486-X.

External links

• Gearhart, Sally Miller (2003). The Wanderground as an E-book (pdf). www.sallymillergearhart.net. Sally Miller Gearhart. Retrieved on 14 April 2011.
• Gearhart, Sally Miller (2003). The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women. www.sallymillergearhart.net. Sally Miller Gearhart. Retrieved on 14 April 2011.
• FeministSF book discussion group (March 2003). Wanderground by Sally Miller Gearhart. bdg.feministsf.net. Retrieved on 14 April 2011.