Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!dartvax!betsy From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Authors and Characters of Opposite Sex Message-ID: <3733@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 11:42:46 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.3733 Posted: Fri Oct 25 11:42:46 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 07:22:37 EDT References: <248@ssc-vax.UUCP> <1944@reed.UUCP> <32@ubc-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry) Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 21 Summary: The question was: Can you tell if an author is male/female by how he/she handles the opposite sex? I'd give Alexei Panshin's "Rite of Passage" as a counterexample (male author, female protagonist, protagonist is convincingly ( for me) female.) Not being male, I may be incorrect, but I've always thought Ursula Le Guin wrote convincingly about protagonists of all sexes. I will agree, however, that many male authors (Piers Anthony leaps to mind!) don't know beans about how women's minds work, but think they do. -- Elizabeth Hanes Perry UUCP: {decvax |ihnp4 | linus| cornell}!dartvax!betsy CSNET: betsy@dartmouth ARPA: betsy%dartmouth@csnet-relay "Ooh, ick!" -- Penfold