Gerd Brantenberg - Egalia’s Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes


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Perhaps as a way of pointing towards that the word audio is parenthesized we picked a book that is not widely available as an audiobook.
This book is a Norwegian classic that aims to highlight cultural gender differences by swapping these between the sexes and offers an interesting exercise in seeing what is by imagining what isn't. Comical, yet serious. I've heard much praise about it!
Goodreads sells the book as follows:
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Welcome to the land of Egalia, where gender roles are topsy-turvy as "wim" wield the power and "menwim" light the home fires. This re-telling of the prototypical coming-of age novel will have readers laughing out loud and wondering who should prevail: poor Petronius, who wants more than anything to cruise the oceans as a seawom; or his powerful and protective mother Director Bram, who rules her family with an authoritarian righteousness. But for better or for worse, as the masculist party begins to organize and protest, the landscape of Egalia threatens to change forever. More than just a humorous romp, Egalia's Daughters poses the provocative question of whether the culprit in gender subjugation is gender itself or power-no matter who wields it.
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The paperback is 272 pages.

Gerd Brantenberg - Egalia’s Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes