phantom Le Guin quote
Feb. 8th, 2006 08:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyDoes anyone have Marleen S. Barr's Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond and would be willing to check it for this Le Guin quote that I know I did not make up and yet I cannot find? Namely, talking about the scene in The Left Hand of Darkness between Genly Ai and Estraven on the ice, in which Estraven is going into kemmer and they do not have sex, Le Guin says something to the effect that what female readers like about it is that it's a love scene between a man and a woman in which the woman has the label MALE HIGH-STATUS pasted on her forehead.
I used to own Lost in Space but it has eroded from my collection. And it's the only other place I can think of that this quote might be. And, yes, I've scoured The Language of the Night, Dancing at the Edge of the World, and Le Guin's introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness until my eyeballs bled horribly all over the page.
Of course, if it happens that you can find the quote in one of those places, I will be very grateful. Also sheepish.
I used to own Lost in Space but it has eroded from my collection. And it's the only other place I can think of that this quote might be. And, yes, I've scoured The Language of the Night, Dancing at the Edge of the World, and Le Guin's introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness until my eyeballs bled horribly all over the page.
Of course, if it happens that you can find the quote in one of those places, I will be very grateful. Also sheepish.
