From "The Voice Of Women's Spirituality In Futurism" By Baba Copper in The Politics Of Women's Spirituality

An example of visionary fiction in which ethical concepts are stretched by both poetic and linguistic means is The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You. In this fantasy about a simple [sic] society in which dreams and rituals focus the life of the people, Dorothy Bryant introduces the concepts of "nagdeo" and "donagdeo." "Nagdeo" is that which is good. "Nagdeo" is that which is good, whole, positive, or constructive, but the opposite is left undefined, as if it could not be conceived fully.

These two words are woven into the reader's expanding understanding of the spiritually integrated culture of Ata. "But each person finds for him[sic]self what is donagdeo. To force anyone to do or not to do something is also donagdeo. Nothing is forbidden. Nothing is taboo."

Two utopian visions of female-named futures that embody much of the feminist ethic are Herland, written in 1915 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and The Wanderground, written in 1978 by Sally Miller Gearhart. Both books recognize women's need to acknowledge that we are nature's creatures and are dependent upon Her complex well-being. In modern terms, Herland is a labor-intensive, low density agrarian village society of "people highly skilled [have feminist authors never learned when to hyphenate? sigh!], efficient, caring for their country as a florist cares for his [sic] costliest orchids." Wanderground is more "primitive"; there the women rely on highly developed [again!] psychic powers for communication, transportation, and other needed technologies. Life in both worlds is communal and nonauthoritarian, with the mechanics of decision-making shared or rotated. In both, age is respected and acknowledged for the accumulation of experience it represents.

The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You completely changed my life for the better. Are there books that have done that for you?