There are multiple conversations where two men argue about which one of them she "belongs" to. She is called a girl despite two of the main characters having sex with her, because "woman" is probably a scary word to authors with that much interest in 11-year-olds' tits. She is allegedly a warrior princess (not queen) but she does absolutely nothing except be protected by men. The girl is, we are explicitly told, born to suffer and inspire men to fight because of her suffering and sacrifice. We know about her state of puberty because the narrator makes a point of describing her naked body and especially the barely formed breasts. One of these is a barely pubescent soothsayer. Women are almost completely absent from what I regret to report is called "the racial unconscious" (why yes, everyone in this book *is* white, since you ask) except for two. You will be staggered to learn that all of the humans in question are men, and all but two of the mythagos are.men. The premise of this book is that archetype creatures, mythagos, arise in the wood plucked from human minds. Won the World Fantasy Award in the 1980s.
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