The Godmothers
Title | The Godmothers |
Year for Search | 1982 |
Authors | Hall, Sandi(b. 1942) |
Date Published | 1982 |
Publisher | The Women's Press |
Place Published | London/New York |
Keywords | Aotearoa New Zealand author, Female author |
Annotation | Feminist novel with a stress on struggle but that includes eutopian and dystopian elements. The novel is set on four timelines: the witch-burning past, the present in which a group of feminists are targeted by anti-feminists, a feminist eutopian future which is threatened by those who worship mathematics, and the period of the Godmothers, a period in which the ties among women are affirmed. |
Holding Institutions | ATL, M, NZ |
Author Note | Aotearoa/New Zealand female author (b. 1942). |
Full Text | 1982 Hall, Sandi (b. 1942). The Godmothers. Feminist novel with a stress on struggle but that includes eutopian and dystopian elements. The novel is set on four timelines: the witch-burning past, the present in which a group of feminists are targeted by anti-feminists, a feminist eutopian future which is threatened by those who worship mathematics, and the period of the Godmothers, a period in which the ties among women are affirmed. Aotearoa/New Zealand female author. |