Daughters of Eve (novel)

Daughters of Eve is a 1979 novel by Lois Duncan.[1] Incorporating feminist themes, the novel follows a group of young women who become convinced to punish their fathers by a charismatic teacher.

Daughters of Eve
First edition
AuthorLois Duncan
LanguageEnglish
Genre
Published1979
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
Pages239
ISBN978-0-316-19550-8

Plot

The girls at Modesta High School, located in a small town in rural Michigan feel like they are stuck in an anti-feminist time warp-they are faced with sexism at every turn, and they have had enough. Sponsored by their new charismatic art teacher, Ms. Irene Stark, they band together to form the Daughters of Eve. It is more than a school club-it is a secret society, a sisterhood.

Stark preaches on issues regarding women's liberation, who convinces each of the girls to stand up against the males who oppress them. At first, it seems like they are actually changing the way guys at school treat them. But Ms. Stark urges them to take ever more vindictive action and it starts to become about revenge-brutal revenge.

Controversy

Due to its thematic concerns with rape, abortion, domestic violence, feminism and antifeminism, the novel was banned from libraries in several states upon its 1997 republication, namely from Jackson County School libraries in West Virginia in 1997, as well as school libraries in Virginia, Indiana, and New Mexico from 2000 to 2005.[2]

gollark: Idea: store nuclear waste in lyricly's basement.
gollark: This is hard and underfunded. Besides, fission is basically fine.
gollark: Yes it is. You can simply fire it on a ballistic trajectory elsewhere™.
gollark: To mitigate against the issues of rockets, use railguns.
gollark: Better idea: launch the waste into space.

References
  1. Atwell, Mary Stuart (December 5, 2012). "Feminism Turns Fatal In A 1970s Classic". NPR. Retrieved June 4, 2017.
  2. "Daughters of Eve". Banned Library. Retrieved June 4, 2017.


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