![]() It shows how rooted and deep the gender divide is that women would need a huge physical change in order to flip the tables. I found it interesting that Alderman chose a physical characteristic for women to develop in order to make them the more powerful sex. Would people really believe there was a time when women weren’t the powerful sex? Some of the gender and societal adjustments are small and happen slowly, while other s arrive suddenly and forcefully and I loved getting to see this unfold through the eyes of the characters. This is a book within a book – the author is sending a draft of the book to friends to learn what their perceptions are. The story follows the POV of a few young girls in this past who are coming into their own with their new supernatural powers, as well as a young man who follows and reports on the skein phenomenon happening across the globe. The shift in gender dynamics from men to women is instantaneous and brings up the age-old questions: what if women held the power? What if women, rather than men, were the strong, and more powerful sex? ![]() In The Power, women suddenly become genetically altered and develop a skein, which enables them to generate electricity. Rather than following the theme of women facing oppression (think women losing their voice in Voxand losing their freedom in The Handmaid’s Tale), the pattern is broken in Alderman’s novel by women gaining something instead. ![]() The Power by Naomi Alderman is a fresh take on a feminist focused plot line. ![]()
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