[Native Tongue 02] • The Judas Rose

An instant cult classic upon first publication, Suzette Haden Elgin's *Native Tongue* trilogy has earned wide critical acclaim, shocking and captivating a loyal readership among science fiction and women's literature audiences alike.

Sequel to the enormously popular *Native Tongue*, *The Judas Rose* continues Elgin's gripping vision of a frightening, male-dominated world where the women of Earth are virtually enslaved. Once again, this group of womenand the nonviolent yet transformative power of languageis called upon to challenge Earth's violent, patriarchal order. Their revolutionary tool is Laadana secret women's language created to free them from men's control and make resistance possible for all women.

In *The Judas Rose*, the time has come to take Laadan from underground and spread its revolutionary power to women everywherein part, through a group of nuns inside the Roman Catholic Church. But when a handful of horrified priests uncover the women's sabotage they move to stamp it out with an undercover female agent of their own."