What If Yin and Yang Were One? Feminism Seen through the Prism of Alternate Sexuality in The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
What If Yin and Yang Were One? Feminism Seen through the Prism of Alternate Sexuality in The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
Author(s): Hristo BoevSubject(s): History, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Gender Studies, Foreign languages learning, Sociology, Gender history, Translation Studies, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: feminism; lesbian; androgynous; unisexism.
Summary/Abstract: I am writing this article in a retrospective response mainly to radical feminists such as Adrienne Rich, who in her essay “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Experience” (1980) sees man as the greatest enemy and advocates taking a critical stance towards heterosexual feminists, thus campaigning for lesbianism. The article also addresses the precarious state of gender in the light of the rising far right worldwide discussing ideas proposed by Judith Butler against criticism based on the bland world of the neuter androgynous society of The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula Le Guin who in her novel anticipates unisexism and prospectively addresses this matter.
Journal: Studia Philologica Universitatis Velikotarnovensis
- Issue Year: 43/2025
- Issue No: 3.1
- Page Range: 173-180
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English
