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Thendara House Study Guide

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by Marion Zimmer Bradley
About 5 pages (1,598 words)
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Human relationships appear in endless variety. Jaelle, although a Renunciate, lives as a Freemate to and is pregnant by her husband Peter. Magda explores womanto-woman relationships, both platonic friendship and lesbianism, in her affair with Camilla and her deepening friendship with Jaelle. The friendship between these women explore issues central to all females: how to maintain one's self-determination in relationships; how to balance dependence and independence of thought, feeling, and action in light of myriad contexts; how to be open about sexual doubts, fears, and ecstasies; and how to respond to the procreative imperative, the complex experiences of deciding to bear children, pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. But for all of this, Bradley's vision of.....

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Thendara House from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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