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- Paperback Edition
- ISBN: 978-1-55861-403-1
- Publication Date: 10-01-2002
- Page Count: 384
- Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
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SUZETTE HADEN ELGIN was born in Missouri in 1936. Her undergraduate work was at the University of Chicago and Chico State University; she completed her linguistics Ph.D. at the University of California San Diego in 1973, and then taught in the Linguistics Department at San Diego State University. In 1980 she retired to the Arkansas Ozarks, where she runs a business from her home.
The Judas Rose
Preface by Patricia Ann Wilkins. Afterword by Susan Squier & Julie Vedder.
An instant cult classic upon first publication, Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue trilogy has earned wide critical acclaim, shocking and captivating a loyal readership among science fiction and women's literature audiences alike.
Sequel to the enormously popular Native Tongue, The Judas Rose continues Elgin's gripping vision of a frightening, male-dominated world where the women of Earth are virtually enslaved. Once again, this group of women—and the nonviolent yet transformative power of language—is called upon to challenge Earth's violent, patriarchal order. Their revolutionary tool is Laadan—a secret women's language created to free them from men's control and make resistance possible for all women.
In The Judas Rose, the time has come to take Laadan from underground and spread its revolutionary power to women everywhere—in part, through a group of nuns inside the Roman Catholic Church. But when a handful of horrified priests uncover the women's sabotage they move to stamp it out with an undercover female agent of their own.
"Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue trilogy, a classic text of angry feminism, is also an exemplary experiment in speculative fiction, deftly and implacably pursuing both a scientific hypothesis and an ideological hypothesis through all their social, moral, and emotional implications."
"Less well known than the The Handmaid's Tale but just as apocalyptic in their vision . . . Native Tongue along with its sequel The Judas Rose . . . record female tribulations in a world where . . . women have no public rights at all. Elgin's heroines do, however, have one set of weapons—words of their own."
