Is Gender Necessary
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Along about 1967 […] I began to want to define and understand the meaning of sexuality and the meaning of gender, in my life and in our society […] It was that same need, I think, that had lead Beauvoir to write The Second Sex, and Friedan to write The Feminine Mystique, and that was, at the same time, leading Kate Millett and others to write their books, and to create the new feminism. But I was not a theoretician, a political thinker or activist, or a sociologist. I was and am a fiction writer. The way I did my thinking was to write a novel. That novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, is the record of my consciousness, the process of my thinking."--"Is Gender Necessary?" (1976) by Ursula K. Le Guin |
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"Is Gender Necessary?" (1976) is an essay by Ursula K. Le Guin first published in Aurora: Beyond Equality.
It is one of the earliest essays on gender in science fiction.
It was amended with additional commentary by the author in "Is Gender Necessary? Redux" (1987 or 1988).
"In Dancing at the Edge of the World, the commentary is embedded in the text in bracketed italics. In The Language of the Night, it is printed side-by-side with the original essay." (isfdb, 2020)
