Space Crone gathers Ursula K. Le Guin's writings on feminism and gender into a single volume for the first time, tracing a radical consciousness that kept pace with — and often outran — the liberation movements of the twentieth century.
About This Book
Le Guin was a witness to the century's great upheavals — women's liberation, civil rights, anti-war and environmental activism — and this collection shows how those forces shaped, and were shaped by, her thinking. Her feminist writing is not static doctrine but a living, evolving practice: rooted in ecological and anti-nuclear politics, deepened by self-education about racism, and extended into reflections on ageing and what it means to grow old as a woman. Known for imagining societies where gender is rendered irrelevant — most famously in The Left Hand of Darkness — Le Guin's non-essentialising approach to gender remains a model of intellectual rigour and imaginative freedom for feminist thinkers today.
Key Features
- 212 pages of collected essays, speeches, and feminist writings spanning Le Guin's career
- Published by Silver Press, ISBN 9780995716278
What You'll Discover
- How Le Guin's feminism developed from ecological and anti-nuclear activism rather than emerging in isolation from other political commitments
- Her approach to gender as a social construction — non-essentialising and open to reimagination — and how that stance evolved across decades
- The relationship between her fiction and her politics, including how novels like The Left Hand of Darkness functioned as laboratories for feminist thought
- Her engagement with racism through deliberate self-education, and how that process informed her broader understanding of social justice
About the Author
Ursula K. Le Guin was a celebrated author whose fiction and non-fiction engaged with feminism, gender, ecology, and social justice across a career that spanned the twentieth century's major political movements. She is best known for works including The Left Hand of Darkness, in which she imagined a society where gender holds no fixed meaning. Throughout her life she remained committed to environmental and social justice causes.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 212
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9780995716278
- Publisher: Silver Press
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Readers in gender studies, feminist theory, and literary criticism; architects and designers interested in the politics of space and identity; anyone tracing the intellectual history of twentieth-century social movements through the lens of one of its sharpest imaginative minds.