Charnas writes within the well-developed Utopian-dystopian tradition of Huxley's Brave New World (1932) and Orwell's 1984 (1949). The tradition has its less well known, but just as strongly-rooted feminist side, dating as far back as the plays of the Duchess of Newcastle (c. 1650). A more immediate precedent would be Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915). The 1970s saw the publication of a number of feminist utopian-dystopian novels, many of them influenced by Shulamith Firestone's The.....
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