I Who Have Never Known Men

About “I Who Have Never Known Men”

A 1995 novel by Jacqueline Harpman, a work of fantasy set in a near future on a barren earth where women are kept in underground cages guarded by uniformed men. It is narrated by the youngest of the women, who has no memory of the world before the cages and must teach herself, without books or sexual contact, essential human emotions such as longing, loving, learning, companionship, and dying.