Native Tongue is the first novel in
Suzette Haden Elgin's
feminist science fiction series of the same name. The trilogy is centered in a future
dystopian American society where the
19th Amendment was repealed in 1996 and women have been stripped of civil rights. A group of women, part of a worldwide group of linguists who facilitate human communication with alien races,
create a new language for women as an act of resistance. Elgin created that language,
Láadan, and instructional materials are available.