Limyaael

Thank you!

It has characters that are male or female depending on circumstances. (If you say that it doesn't have any female characters, you also have to argue that it doesn't have any male characters, either, except for Genly Ai, the male outsider). In effect, it gets rid of sex most of the time and then sees what happens to gender roles. One tenet of some kinds of feminism is that gender is socially constructed, not biological in the way that sex is; Le Guin describes this as her attempt to step beyond gender and see what happens.

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"(If you say that it doesn't have any female characters, you also have to argue that it doesn't have any male characters, either, except for Genly Ai, the male outsider)"

Yup, I fully agree with that.

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