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Matter of Seggri

By Ursula Le Guin

Envisioning a complete gender role reversal, in this novelette Le Guin vividly portrays the absurdity of our accepted, modern gender roles. This short but powerful and unforgettable story exposes the self-imprisoning nature of “femininity” and our unconscious sexism. Social and political attitudes that seem "normal" from our unconscious, patriarchal perspective seem insane when the genders are reversed.

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“[Discussions about] gender bring us right up face-to-face with sex, as well as love… the functioning of society and the conditions of freedom.”

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“I don't care about honor. I want to be free.”

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“The untold story mothers the lie… the story has no beginning and no story has an end… the story is never true but the lie is indeed the child of silence.”

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Themes: Lies History

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“We collude with them and they with us in maintaining the great foundation of ignorance and lies on which our civilization rests.”

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