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This is a list of works featuring [[separatism|separatist]] societies. For the purposes of this list, separatism is primarily gender-based separatism: separatism of the sexes. However, works featuring sexuality-based separatism, or race-based separatism (e.g., South African apartheid) could also be included. | |||
Distinguish from [[matriarchies]]: Separatism always has the sexes (or other groups) living apart; while this may be in conjunction with a matriarchy or a society in which all the members of one gender have died off, it is not necessarily the same. | |||
Distinguish from [[role reversal societies]]: Not all role reversal societies are separatist; just as patriarchal societies are not necessarily separatist. | |||
==Examples== | ==Examples== | ||
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* ''[[Benefits (novel)|Benefits]]'' by [[Zoe Fairbairns]] | * ''[[Benefits (novel)|Benefits]]'' by [[Zoe Fairbairns]] | ||
* ''[[The Wanderground]]'' by [[Sally Miller Gearhart]] (women live apart; some gay men also live apart; cities are filled with horrible heterosexuals who haven't yet escaped) | * ''[[The Wanderground]]'' by [[Sally Miller Gearhart]] (women live apart; some gay men also live apart; cities are filled with horrible heterosexuals who haven't yet escaped) | ||
* [[Leona Gom]]'s ''[[The Y Chromosome]]'': Those few men who secretly survive live apart. | |||
* ''[[Paz]]'' (1984) by [[Camarin Grae]] | |||
* "[[Sultana's Dream]]" (1905) by [[Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain]] | |||
* ''[[The Day of the Women]]'' (1969) by [[Pamela Kettle]] (after women take over the British government, they begin slowly to create separatist institutions) | |||
* ''[[A Voice Out of Ramah]]'' by [[Lee Killough]] (90% of men die during puberty; the world is therefore homosocial) | |||
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]. "[[The Matter of Seggri]]" (1994) | * [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]. "[[The Matter of Seggri]]" (1994) | ||
* [[Joanna Russ]]. [[The Female Man]] | * [[Doris Lessing]], ''[[The Cleft]]'' (2007) (an all-woman society ejects the birth-defect squirts, who are raised to form their own society) | ||
* [[Sheri S. Tepper]]. [[The Gate to Women's Country]] | * "The Moons of Sirius" by Ward Michaels. ''In Touch'' (Los Angeles), no. 39 (Jan. - Feb. 1979) | ||
* "[[The Lineman]]" by [[Walter M. Miller, Jr.]], ''[[F&SF]]'', Aug. 1957; reprinted in ''A Wilderness of Stars'' ed. by William F. Nolan, Nashville, Sherbourne, 1969. | |||
* '[[Daughters of Khaton]]'' by [[Merril Mushroom]] (1987) | |||
* The [[Hadra series]] by [[Diana Rivers]]: The Hadra are a country of [[lesbian separatism|lesbian separatists]], protected by the [[Goddess]] in a patriarchal society. [[Sair of Semasi]] escapes her (patriarchal) country and is taken in by the Hada. | |||
* [[Joanna Russ]]. ''[[The Female Man]]'' (one of the societies features a society of men and women at war with each other) | |||
* [[Pamela Sargent]]'s, ''[[The Shore of Women]]'' (men live in the wilderness) | |||
* [[Rochelle Singer]], ''[[The Demeter Flower]]'' | |||
* [[Joan Slonczewski]], ''[[A Door Into Ocean]]'' (Shora is apparently a [[planned community of women]]) | |||
* [[Starhawk]], ''[[The Fifth Sacred Thing]]'' (in San Francisco, gay men live in an enclave of their own) | |||
* [[Jean Stewart]], the [[Isis series]] (in the nation of Isis, lesbian women live together; heterosexuals have their own city colonies; there is one largely gay male colony ("Harvey"); and Isis is perpetually threatened by an evil nation of evil patriarchal straight men) | |||
* [[Sheri S. Tepper]]. [[The Gate to Women's Country]] (most men live in military camps outside the cities where women, children under 5 of both sexes, and "gentle" men (gay and nonviolent men) live) | |||
* [[Sheri S. Tepper]]. [[A Plague of Angels]] (1993) (one community has men and women living separately) | * [[Sheri S. Tepper]]. [[A Plague of Angels]] (1993) (one community has men and women living separately) | ||
* [[John Varley]]'s [[Gaean trilogy]] volumes 2 & 3 (''[[Wizard (novel)|Wizard]]'' and ''[[Demon (novel)|Demon]]'') have a lesbian separatist society | |||
* [[Elizabeth Vonarburg]]'s ''[[In the Mother's Country]]'' | |||
==See also:== | ==See also:== | ||
Revision as of 14:50, 8 May 2007
This is a list of works featuring separatist societies. For the purposes of this list, separatism is primarily gender-based separatism: separatism of the sexes. However, works featuring sexuality-based separatism, or race-based separatism (e.g., South African apartheid) could also be included.
Distinguish from matriarchies: Separatism always has the sexes (or other groups) living apart; while this may be in conjunction with a matriarchy or a society in which all the members of one gender have died off, it is not necessarily the same.
Distinguish from role reversal societies: Not all role reversal societies are separatist; just as patriarchal societies are not necessarily separatist.
Examples
- Eleanor Arnason. A Woman of the Iron People and Ring of Swords (1993)
- Free Amazon society in the Darkover series by Marion Zimmer Bradley (particularly in The Shattered Chain; Thendara House; and City of Sorcery)
- Glory Season by David Brin
- Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Adulthood Rites and Imago by Octavia Butler (the Xenogenesis series)
- The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
- Spartan Planet (aka False Fatherland) by A. Bertram Chandler; and sequel, The Last Amazon (a male-only society in the first story; amazon separatists try to take it over in the second)
- Holdfast in Walk to the End of the World and The Conqueror's Child by Suzy McKee Charnas (in Holdfast, men and women live apart)
- Motherlines by Suzy McKee Charnas - the horse women live together & are lesbian; the other women, some of whom are straight, live separately
- "Spinning the Green" by Margaret Elphinstone (in Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind)
- Benefits by Zoe Fairbairns
- The Wanderground by Sally Miller Gearhart (women live apart; some gay men also live apart; cities are filled with horrible heterosexuals who haven't yet escaped)
- Leona Gom's The Y Chromosome: Those few men who secretly survive live apart.
- Paz (1984) by Camarin Grae
- "Sultana's Dream" (1905) by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
- The Day of the Women (1969) by Pamela Kettle (after women take over the British government, they begin slowly to create separatist institutions)
- A Voice Out of Ramah by Lee Killough (90% of men die during puberty; the world is therefore homosocial)
- Ursula K. Le Guin. "The Matter of Seggri" (1994)
- Doris Lessing, The Cleft (2007) (an all-woman society ejects the birth-defect squirts, who are raised to form their own society)
- "The Moons of Sirius" by Ward Michaels. In Touch (Los Angeles), no. 39 (Jan. - Feb. 1979)
- "The Lineman" by Walter M. Miller, Jr., F&SF, Aug. 1957; reprinted in A Wilderness of Stars ed. by William F. Nolan, Nashville, Sherbourne, 1969.
- 'Daughters of Khaton by Merril Mushroom (1987)
- The Hadra series by Diana Rivers: The Hadra are a country of lesbian separatists, protected by the Goddess in a patriarchal society. Sair of Semasi escapes her (patriarchal) country and is taken in by the Hada.
- Joanna Russ. The Female Man (one of the societies features a society of men and women at war with each other)
- Pamela Sargent's, The Shore of Women (men live in the wilderness)
- Rochelle Singer, The Demeter Flower
- Joan Slonczewski, A Door Into Ocean (Shora is apparently a planned community of women)
- Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing (in San Francisco, gay men live in an enclave of their own)
- Jean Stewart, the Isis series (in the nation of Isis, lesbian women live together; heterosexuals have their own city colonies; there is one largely gay male colony ("Harvey"); and Isis is perpetually threatened by an evil nation of evil patriarchal straight men)
- Sheri S. Tepper. The Gate to Women's Country (most men live in military camps outside the cities where women, children under 5 of both sexes, and "gentle" men (gay and nonviolent men) live)
- Sheri S. Tepper. A Plague of Angels (1993) (one community has men and women living separately)
- John Varley's Gaean trilogy volumes 2 & 3 (Wizard and Demon) have a lesbian separatist society
- Elizabeth Vonarburg's In the Mother's Country
See also:
- List of works featuring intentional communities designed along gender lines - Intentional communities designed by women, however, are just that: they may include men or may not; they may or may not be matriarchies; they may or may not be utopias.
- Plus see all the stories in which the gender ratios are skewed.