For the first time, Space Crone brings together celebrated author Ursula K. Le Guin’s writings on feminism and gender.
Witness to the twentieth century’s rebellions and upheavals, including women’s liberation, the civil rights movement and anti-war and environmental activism, Le Guin continued to fight for social and environmental justice throughout her life.
Famous for her experiments in imagining society where gender is irrelevant in novels such as The Left Hand of Darkness, Le Guin’s feminism kept ahead of the times to reimagine gender in a non-essentialising way. Space Crone shows the development of Le Guin’s expansive, multi-layered and deeply radical feminist consciousness from its roots in her ecological, anti-war and anti-nuclear activism, to her self-education about racism and her writing about ageing.
'In a world increasingly run by an ever-accelerating and expanding rationalist technocracy, an age sick with yang, Space Crone is essential reading, (re)turning us yinward.' --Kelsey Chen, ArtReview
‘One of the literary greats of the 20th century.’ --Margaret Atwood
‘An anarchic destabilizer of established power structures and a ferocious critic of racist and sexist narratives.’ --Maria Dahvana Headley
‘great teacher. great spirit.’ --adrienne maree brown
‘A crafter of fierce, focused, fertile dreams.’ --David Mitchell
‘A deepener and clarifier of possibility.’ --Nicola Griffith
‘A literary icon.’ --Stephen King
