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Subject: single sex societies
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Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 16:37:49 EST
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From: heffel%shogun.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM  (Tracey Heffelfinger Dtn:354-7431 GSO/F5)

   Years ago I read "Virgin Planet" by Poul Anderson(I believe).  It featured
an all female society that perpetuated itself by Parthenogenisis.  I don't
remember much about it because it's been years since I read it.

   Anybody else notice that all the examples given so far have been all
female societies??

   Of course as soon as I typed that, I thought of an all male example.
In Andre Norton's Witch World series there was a race of men (who name involved
hawks somehow) that raided villages for women.  These women were kept until
they had a child.  If the child were female, both were allowed to go back
home.  If the child were male, She was kept for 4 years to raise the boy.
At the end of 4 years, the mother went home and the son stayed with the
men.   

"I do nothing in particular but I do it very well." --W.S. Gilbert

Tracey Heffelfinger
Digital Equipment Corp.
Greenville, S.C.

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