In the first, A Wizard of Earthsea, the teenage protagonist Ged has to learn to use magic and to accept and control his own dark side. The first three books of the Earthsea series are coming-of-age stories with adolescent protagonists. In Tehanu, she attempts to change the whole system by exposing the dark side of patriarchy-including misogyny, rape, child abuse, and a system that devalues the work and concerns of women, children, and powerless men-and by postulating an alternative "woman's power" that will eventually lead Earthsea to a new balance and harmony. In the years after the first three books were written, her evolving feminism made her uncomfortable with the "unquestioned patriarchal system where only men are wizards, only men have power" that she had unconsciously created in Earthsea ("Ursula K. Le Guin returned to the fantasy world of Earthsea that she had created in the first three books of the children's series published between 19.
* In Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea, published in 1990, Ursula K.
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