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However, in later books Le Guin delves deeper into the history of Earthsea and reveals some early events that helped shape the dichotomy of male-female magic.

As the Ring of Erreth-Akbe is forged whole in " Tombs of Atuan ", and the door between the lands of the dead and the living is shut and Arren made king in " the Farthest Shore ", so is the dualism between male and female magic weakened.

There is a shift in the world.

As slavery is made illegal, other forms of inequality are addressed as well.

The dynamic of Earthsea is turned on its head.

In the following stories, " Tehanu " and " the Other Wind " new information is introduced, and old events are seen in a new light, revealing that to begin with women had a central role in founding the School of Roke, and that-far from being an inherent characteristic of magic-their exclusion was the act of narrow-minded male chauvinist mages.