Bøger af Annie Denton Cridge

An early feminist Utopian satire. Man's Rights presents a set of dreams, envisioning a satirical utopia set on Mars where gender roles have been reversed. Women are beautiful, practical and powerful, with caring but potentially patronising attitudes to men. Meanwhile, the men are frustrated by their limited life opportunities, the daily wearing of decorative, impractical clothes and the daily grind of household chores. Born in England in 1825, author Annie Denton Cridge (1825-1875) moved to America in the 1840's where she became a suffragist, lecturer, spiritualist and social reformer.

In a series of dreams, a woman visits Mars, where a society run by women faces an uprising of oppressed men. Unable to leave their homes, the Martian men, enabled by recent technological advances, use their freedom to organize against the women in power. Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It? is a feminist utopian novel by Annie Denton Cridge.

"Cridge ridicules the cult of domesticity by exposing its contradictions, made especially glaring when enacted by men." -Carol Farley KesslerMan's Rights; or, How Would You Like It? (1870) is a feminist utopian novel by Annie Denton Cridge. Written during the early stages of the American suffragist movement, Cridge's novel is a work of political satire that uses utopianism and science fiction to explore the progressive political activism of women of the United States and around the world. Highlighting the absurdity of gender-based oppression, Cridge produced the first feminist utopian novel in history, predating Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915) by nearly half a century.In a series of strange, prophetic dreams, a woman envisions a society on Mars in which women wield absolute power over men. Unable to leave their homes, made to perform domestic labor each and every day, the Martian men have grown tired of oppression. When technological advancements grant them more free time, they begin staging an uprising against the women of Mars in order to demand total equality. Struck by these visions, the narrator has several more dreams in which she sees a future United States ruled justly and effectively by a woman president. Detailing the reforms and advances of this utopian world, she begins to imagine if one day such a future will finally be possible. Ahead of its time and largely unrecognized upon publication, Annie Denton Cridge's Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It? is an important work of science fiction and political imagination that not only sheds light on the nineteenth century women's suffrage movement, but remains relevant for our own, divided time.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Annie Denton Cridge's Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It? is a classic of American science fiction reimagined for modern readers.