More’s utopian bliss is to be attained only through the imposition of a distinctively male hierarchy. It is so strange, isn’t it? As a feminist utopian novel, the whole setting is still based on the logic of male-domain world, with the opposite gender idealized to fit the imagination of utopia. ( More details…)īecause this is a first-person perspective book, and it is a feminist fiction in my preconceptions, I did not realize that the protagonist was a man rather than a woman until the protagonist explicitly stated that he was a male like the other two. It seems to show a dreamful world made up of women. Herlandians were wise, gentle, kind, and they raise their children together. Herland, as a classic feminist utopian novel, tells the story of three American men who discover an isolated, all-female country while exploring.
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