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Title	:	Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes
Author	:	Gerd Brantenberg
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	February 28th 1995 by Seal Press (first published 1977)
Categories	:	Feminism. Fiction. Gender. Science Fiction. Novels. Gender Studies

Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes Paperback | Pages: 272 pages

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Welcome to the land of Egalia, where gender roles are topsy-turvy as "wim" wield the power and "menwim" light the home fires. This re-telling of the prototypical coming-of age novel will have readers laughing out loud and wondering who should prevail: poor Petronius, who wants more than anything to cruise the oceans as a seawom; or his powerful and protective mother Director Bram, who rules her family with an authoritarian righteousness. But for better or for worse, as the masculist party begins to organize and protest, the landscape of Egalia threatens to change forever. More than just a humorous romp, Egalia's Daughters poses the provocative question of whether the culprit in gender subjugation is gender itself or power-no matter who wields it.

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Original Title:	Egalias døtre
ISBN:	1878067583 (ISBN13: 9781878067586)
Edition Language:	English

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So, you think our society's not sexist? Wait 'til you read this book. The author turns every aspect of our society that has any sort of a gender tinge to it inside out. Get ready to rethink the language that we use, the rituals that we observe, and the clothes that we wear.

My favorite book thus far. Switches the power dynamics of men and women in society. Very clever.

The satirical dialogue that Gerd Brantenberg elicits in her piece examines the upside down imaginings of gender roles reversed between females and males in an inverted world. Brantenberg illuminates how even in our progressive society sexism and gender inequalities are still very much alive and how these inequalities are so universally accepted that we do not even realize the injustice in such supposed norms.

First of all this book is vastly entertaining, clever and funny. I don't really see how some claim this book would have been better as a short story, other than that they probably don't really care for social structure, society and gender differences in the first place. I quite liked how the first part of the book was all about presenting the matriarchy and society of the book, and the conscious awakening of Petronius, and the second part concentrates on the men's liberation group and how their

Interesting take on our male-based society. This book reverses the gender roles in our culture so that women dominate society and language. The new words can be a little hard at first but anyone with a passing familiarity of feminist literature should recognize the situation and setting almost immediately. Other reviews have called the book "dated" and while some outright gender discrimination that is pointed out here is no longer this common, the book isn't nearly as dated as we could hope for.

What if there was a matriarch, men ate the Pill, wore pehos ("The boys said it was awkward and uncomfortable, cramming your penis into that stupid box. And it was so impractical when you had to pee.")and dressed in tiny clothes designed to show off your body?The book is not just an interesting - sometimes absolutely hilarious, sometimes tragic - role reversal, but is also a commentary on the supposed neutrality of language.Eg wom, wim: woman, womenmanwom, manwim: man, menmafele: malefele: female

So, you think our society's not sexist? Wait 'til you read this book. The author turns every aspect of our society that has any sort of a gender tinge to it inside out. Get ready to rethink the language that we use, the rituals that we observe, and the clothes that we wear.