The Privilege of the Sword was stocked as fantasy but I’m not sure what makes it fantasy. There was no magic or witchcraft or time travel or anything like that. TW says it was fantasy because the story wasn’t set in a “real place” or in a “real time”. But it didn’t feel like a fantasy world to me. Whatever.
A gender bending swordsman story with some gay sex tossed in for good measure. Men ruled the world. Women knew their place or faced disgrace and wanted nothing more than to make good marriages. Fun story, if you don’t mind gay sex or gender bending swordplay. Which I don’t, so this was fun. Fun enough that I’m thinking of reserving the other two books by Ellen Kushner the that share some characters and some settings.