Charlotte Perkins Gilman & Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain 
3 books to know Feminist Fiction 

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– Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
– Sultana’s Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
– New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future by Mrs. George Corbett Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination. It was first published in monthly installments as a serial in 1915 in The Forerunner, a magazine edited and written by Gilman between 1909 and 1916. The story is told from the perspective of Vandyck ‚Van‘ Jennings, a sociology student who, along with two friends, Terry O. Nicholson and Jeff Margrave, forms an expedition party to explore an area of uncharted land rumored to be home to a society consisting entirely of women. The three friends do not entirely believe the rumors because they are unable to think of a way how human reproduction could occur without males.
Sultana’s Dream is a 1905 feminist utopian story written by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, a Muslim feminist, writer and social reformer from Bengal. It depicts a feminist utopia (called Ladyland) in which women run everything and men are secluded, in a mirror-image of the traditional practice of purdah. The women are aided by science fiction-esque ‚electrical‘ technology which enables laborless farming and flying cars; the women scientists have discovered how to trap solar power and control the weather. This results in ‚a sort of gender-based Planet of the Apes where the roles are reversed and the men are locked away in a technologically advanced future.‘
New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future is a feminist utopian novel, written by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett and first published in 1889. It was one element in the wave of utopian and dystopian literature that marked the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In her novel, Corbett envisions a successful suffragette movement eventually giving rise to a breed of highly evolved ‚Amazonians‘ who turn Ireland into a utopian society. The book’s female narrator wakes up in the year 2472, much like Julian West awakens in the year 2000 in Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1888). Corbett’s heroine, however, is accompanied by a man of her own time, who has similarly awakened from a hashish dream to find himself in New Amazonia.
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Über den Autor

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 August 17, 1935), also known as Charlotte Perkins Stetson, her first married name, was a prominent American humanist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist and served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. She has been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story ‚The Yellow Wallpaper‘, which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis.
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880 1932) was a Bengali feminist thinker, educator and political activist from British India (present day Bangladesh). She is widely regarded as a pioneer of women’s liberation in South Asia. She advocated for men and women to be treated equally as rational beings, noting that the lack of education for women was responsible for their inferior economic position. She held education to be the central precondition of women’s liberation. She established the first school aimed primarily at Bengali Muslim girls in Kolkata. She is said to have gone from house to house persuading the parents to send their girls to her school in Nisah. Until her death, she ran the school despite facing hostile criticism and social obstacles.
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett (18461930), also known as Mrs George Corbett, was an English feminist writer, best known for her novel New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future (1889).Corbett worked as a journalist for the Newcastle Daily Chronicle and as a popular writer of adventure and society novels. Many of her novels were written in the form of magazine serials and not published in book form. While New Amazonia was the most explicitly feminist of her novels, it was not the only one to deal with the position of women in society. Her 1894 novel When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead features one of the earliest female detectives in fiction, Annie Cory, and is itself preceded by Adventures of a Lady Detective around 1890, possibly published in a periodical. Her writing was not universally well received, but Hearth and Home listed her along with Arthur Conan Doyle as one of the masters of the art of the detective novel.