A review by meganpbell
The Judas Rose by Suzette Haden Elgin

5.0

In a future America where women have no legal rights, aliens are major economic players, and linguists are in high demand, the women of the Lines (the 13 linguist families) infiltrate the Catholic Church to secretly spread the feminist language they’ve spent years laboring to create. I️ loved this sequel to Native Tongue and Elgin’s mix of linguistics and aliens and priests and evangelicals and government plots and madcap feminist conspiracies. Like Native Tongue, The Judas Rose is a product of the 1980s and its portrayal of gender and sexuality is a product of the 1980s. There may be some plot holes too. I️ don’t care, this series is fascinating and fun and unexpected, and I️ love that a linguist was dreaming it up in the 80s.