Re: Female characters

Dorothy J Heydt wrote:

Dan Goodman <dsgood@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Once, C.J. Cherryh and Lin Carter (who was editing an anthology)
were talking; and Carter said that during the Middle Ages, a woman
couldn't have survived. He amended that to: Wouldn't have
survived without male protection.

Cherryh wrote and submitted "A Thief in Korianth," with a female
hero who could take care of herself and others. (It was a new idea
then; no longer is.)

But I still want to read the Cherryh story in which a Medieval
society doesn't have any women.

Is there such a story, or do you merely think such as story would
be interesting?

There isn't such a story. Yet.

One possibility: the men are werewolves, and they mate with female
wolves to produce sons.

Some of the Brother Cadfael stories, taking place as they do
mostly inside the Benedictine monastery of Sts. Peter and Paul,
don't have very many women. Peters could easily have written a
story without any women whatever; but I don't know if she ever
did.

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