Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site oddjob.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!gargoyle!oddjob!matt From: matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford) Newsgroups: net.books,net.women Subject: Re: reading material Message-ID: <924@oddjob.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 19:31:57 EDT Article-I.D.: oddjob.924 Posted: Fri Aug 16 19:31:57 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 04:43:25 EDT References: <1774@reed.UUCP> <130@tommif.UUCP> Reply-To: matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford) Organization: U. Chicago, Astronomy & Astrophysics Lines: 30 Xref: watmath net.books:2162 net.women:6954 I sent mail to the original author suggesting the magazine "Mother Jones", but if the field has widened to include books... I'm afraid my taste runs mostly to science fiction, and if a novel is *novel* in some way, I consider it worth reading. C. J. Cherryh's works definitely satisfy this criterion, and I recommend her works. She grinds no overt axes but gives many eye-opening alternatives for alien and human societies. An author with an axe to grind seems to be, who wrote a trilogy beginning with _The_ _Northern_Girl_. I read all three of those books, and although they purport to describe a more enlightened and mature attitude toward sexuality, there is NOT ONE major heterosexual character among the three novels. In the non-fiction arena, I just read Gloria Steinem's _Outrageous_Acts_and_Everyday_Rebellions_. Has anyone else read that, and would they like to discuss it, via mail or out in front of everyone? (BTW, did anyone here that before "James Tiptree, Jr." was discovered to be female, that MCP Robert Silverburg insisted vehemently that "he" must be male because of the male outlook or some such in "his" writing? Chortle!) _____________________________________________________ Matt University crawford@anl-mcs.arpa Crawford of Chicago ihnp4!oddjob!matt