The Judas Rose
Suzette Haden Elgin
The Feminist Press at CUNY
<p>An instant cult classic upon first publication, Suzette Haden Elgin's <I>Native Tongue</I> trilogy has earned wide critical acclaim, shocking and captivating a loyal readership among science fiction and women's literature audiences alike.<BR>Sequel to the enormously popular <I>Native Tongue</I>, <I>The Judas Rose</I> continues Elgin's gripping vision of a frightening, male-dominated world where the women of Earth are virtually enslaved. Once again, this group of women&#8212;and the nonviolent yet transformative power of language&#8212;is called upon to challenge Earth's violent, patriarchal order. Their revolutionary tool is Laadan&#8212;a secret women's language created to free them from men's control and make resistance possible for all women.<BR>In <I>The Judas Rose</I>, the time has come to take Laadan from underground and spread its revolutionary power to women everywhere&#8212;in part, through a group of nuns inside the Roman Catholic Church. But when a handful of...</BR></BR></p>