The Witch of Hebron

The Witch of Hebron is the second novel in a post-apocalyptic series by social scientist James Howard Kunstler.

Reviews & commentary

• devastating review indicting its Gor-like treatment of women by Jason Pettus:

"In fact, this book contains so many scenes of quiet women with child-bearing hips voluntarily dropping to their knees and servicing the men around them, no matter if they're the story's villains or heroes (and seriously, I'm not exaggerating when I say that this occurs at least once with nearly every female character in the entire novel), I started wondering after awhile if we haven't in fact all been interpreting these novels completely wrong, and that what Kunstler is really doing with these books is creating an astounding modern remake of John Norman's so-bad-it's-brilliant "Chronicles of GOR," a series of fantasy novels from the '70s and '80s that purportedly detail life among a non-human race of full-time Conan-like muscular warriors, but in reality are all about the gender-role-based, elaborately ritualistic dominant/submissive erotic rites that define the relationship between men and women in their culture."

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