The End of This Day's Business

Rating:
Summary: A fascinating utopian role reversal
Review: I found out about this novel through my professor, Daphne Patai, who wrote the afterword and also contributed to getting this work published. In this book, Burdekin creates a world in which men are inferior to women and shows us how truly important equality is. It is rather ironic that the publisher of this novel is the Feminist Press because the book isn't at all promoting women as the superior gender. Instead, the author gives us characters that sacrifice their lives to restore the balance of power between the sexes. This book is well-written, however it does tend to go into long lectures at some points. The middle of the novel (chapters 3 and 4) is rather tedious and really could have been shortened or revised. But overall, this book is an interesting and often thought-provoking and even humorous. Altogether, a good read.

Rating:
Summary: A fascinating utopian role reversal
Review: I found out about this novel through my professor, Daphne Patai, who wrote the afterword and also contributed to getting this work published. In this book, Burdekin creates a world in which men are inferior to women and shows us how truly important equality is. It is rather ironic that the publisher of this novel is the Feminist Press because the book isn't at all promoting women as the superior gender. Instead, the author gives us characters that sacrifice their lives to restore the balance of power between the sexes. This book is well-written, however it does tend to go into long lectures at some points. The middle of the novel (chapters 3 and 4) is rather tedious and really could have been shortened or revised. But overall, this book is an interesting and often thought-provoking and even humorous. Altogether, a good read.