Which literary genres did women like Ursula K. LeGuin increasingly turn to in attempt to overturn male stereotypes about gender?
a. coterie theater and off-Broadway productions
b. animated films adapted from fairy tales
c. absurdist poems adapted from French Symbolisme
d. science fiction and fantasy
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a. coterie theater and off-Broadway productions
b. animated films adapted from fairy tales
c. absurdist poems adapted from French Symbolisme
d. science fiction and fantasy
More trivia...
Ursula K. Le Guin
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born
October 21, 1929
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female
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Berkeley, California, The United States
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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Poetry, Children's Books
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Le Guin was born and raised in Berkeley, California, the daughter of the anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber and the writer Theodora Kroeber. Her father was granted the first Ph.D. in Anthropology in the United States in 1901 (Columbia University). She became interested in literature when she was very young. At the age of eleven she submitted her first story to the magazine Astounding Science Fiction (it was rejected).
She received her B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) from Radcliffe College in 1951, and M.A. from Columbia University in 1952. She later studied in France, where she met her husband, historian Charles Le Guin. They were married in 1953.
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