Language is another weapon Brantenberg has utilized to great
advantage in her campaign for sexual equality. In her next
book, Egalia's Daughters (1977), she set out to create a fictional
society in which sex roles are completely reversed, but she soon
understood that the patriarchal language of contemporary
Western society is itself a subtle form of oppression and as such
could not be used in the matriarchal land of Egalia. So she in-
vented a new language for her new social order where the
"wim" have all the power and the "menwim" stay at home
minding the children and making pretty "pehoes" (penis hold-
ers) for their sons to wear to the "Maidmen's ball." This novel,
which was to become a major international success, is alluded
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