Date: Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 05:57 pm (UTC)
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Oh, I read that summary when looking this series up, and look, they also compare it to Gor ("The Dry-Towns are a combination of Muslim society and John Norman's Gor novels, with women literally kept in chains and owned by men."), I had forgotten all about that, seems not only to be that one reviewer. Also, the degree of sexism doesn't sound like something that's within the ordinary enough to be unintentional.

Warrior Woman I read in my teens and while I loved it, I can't really remember much about her way of dealing with gender. I also didn't get far enough in my Norman reading to draw anything but the most the obvious parallels there.

I'm also not convinced that all the sexism necessarily develops from the premise--I am generally skeptical of "fantasy/SF world X is super-sexist because of HISTORY" as an argument
Depends on whose history - especially in Fantasy novels it's fair to assume that unless the sexism present in the worlds has a reason within the world's history it's part of the implied author's views and prejudices.
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