Where Are All the Matriarchies in Fiction?
Fiction is always a work of imagination, but speculative fiction—science fiction and fantasy—is the genre where we can truly let our imaginations run wild. Fire-breathing dragons hoarding treasure,…
Hasnain says:
“But that’s dozens of novels out of thousands, hundreds of thousands, in the genre. Obviously we can imagine matriarchy, and we can write about it. So why is the number of these books so comparatively small?
The easiest reason—or excuse, depending your perspective—is that in nearly all of recorded history, men have held power. Kings run kingdoms, which are still called kingdoms even when run by queens. “
Posted on 2022-04-27T15:18:14+0000