That reminded me of how she revised "Is Gender Necessary" something like two or three times, and IIRC finally published it so all the deletions and additions were side-by-side, and I think she rewrote some of the writing advice in Steering the Craft to be more inclusive, too, and revised other essays. Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989) really shows her working through a lot of her earlier thinking to be more feminist, more radical, less....I don't want to say "less academic" because she got into feminist theory, but she really looked at her own internal metaphors and systems of thought, which I found impressive because she could have literally just rested on her laurels and kept on doing the same thing.
Plus I do think she left the stories alone, apart from including a rewritten scene at the back of Left Hand of Darkness and maybe a few other changes. (I always think of the Annals of the Western Shore books as a kind of reply to Earthsea, too.) That impressed me too.
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Date: 2023-01-31 05:34 am (UTC)Plus I do think she left the stories alone, apart from including a rewritten scene at the back of Left Hand of Darkness and maybe a few other changes. (I always think of the Annals of the Western Shore books as a kind of reply to Earthsea, too.) That impressed me too.