Great link - and I particularly liked this bit at the end of that post: "In the late 1980s Le Guin revised her conception of Earthsea and its system of balance in magic in a major feminist self-assessment. I was selling books at the time and ordered this new Earthsea novel, Tehanu, for myself, and adored it and the other books that followed. Going back to the original novels, I could now see all the references to women as if they were written in bold highlighter, and how limited they were: witches being inferior to wizards, women as aunts, mothers, servants, cooks, wives, nothing more. As Le Guin realised and discussed in several important essays, when she was writing in the 1960s she simply excluded women from agency and power in her fiction. (Though, to be fair, she did tackle women’s magic in The Tombs of Atuan, which is all about the exclusion and confinement of women.) Revising how women and magic worked together in Tehanu was a marvellous, affirmative turnaround, and a challenge to the gendered writing of magic that no-one else had really done much about at this point. I still love the pre-feminist boy Ged, all sulks and arrogance and terrified skill, but I am also fond of Ged the Archmage, before and after the dragons returned to the Archipelago."

Very much matches my feeling on a recent re-read of all the Earthsea books & stories.