I've read you and others discussing about the change in how Le Guin presented Earthsea's attitudes toward women from Tehanu on, but I'm, I guess, not clear on what exactly she was trying to do. I'm presuming that even when she wrote the original Earthsea books, she-the-author didn't believe that women were lesser etc etc; that was just the way she conceived the attitudes of the society she was writing.
So then what happened? Was it that so many people were turned off (as you were, at 11) by the attitudes of Earthsea-ers that she wanted to create something more women friendly and egalitarian? I can imagine writing about locations in Earthsea where attitudes are different, or times in history when they were different--and also I can imagine showing attitudes changing in the present-day of Earthsea. OR I can imagine her saying, "No no; I wrote it wrong before: ACTUALLY the attitudes etc. were like this"--a rewrite of how history and attitudes were.
So which was it? Or was it something else, or some combo?
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Date: 2023-01-30 07:32 pm (UTC)So then what happened? Was it that so many people were turned off (as you were, at 11) by the attitudes of Earthsea-ers that she wanted to create something more women friendly and egalitarian? I can imagine writing about locations in Earthsea where attitudes are different, or times in history when they were different--and also I can imagine showing attitudes changing in the present-day of Earthsea. OR I can imagine her saying, "No no; I wrote it wrong before: ACTUALLY the attitudes etc. were like this"--a rewrite of how history and attitudes were.
So which was it? Or was it something else, or some combo?