Native Tongue (Native Tongue Series #1)

First published in 1984, Native Tongue earned wide critical praise, and cult status as well.

Set in the twenty-second century after the repeal of the Nineteenth Amendment, the novel reveals a world where women are once again property, denied civil rights, and banned from public life. In this world, Earth’s wealth relies on interplanetary commerce, for which the population depends on linguists, a small, clannish group of families whose women breed and become perfect translators of all the gal...