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From: wildbill@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (William J. Laubenheimer)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: single sex societies
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Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 21:56:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 31 21:56:41 1985
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>   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.   

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

Another male example is the society of klopts in Cordwainer Smith's story,
"The Crime and The Glory of Commander Suzdal". The details of reproduction
were not terribly explicit, since the main point of introducing the
society was to explore the nature of an all-male society.

                                        Bill Laubenheimer
----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science
     ...Killjoy went that-a-way--->     ucbvax!wildbill