Herland

A fantasy from an early feminist writer who dared explore a world without men.A lost-world fantasy in the tradition of Arthur Conan Doyle and the Utopianism of William Morris, Herland inverted expectations with its exclusively female society visited by three men from the Edwardian era. The early 1900s saw a quiet revolution in literature previously dominated by male adventure heroes. An early example of feminist science fiction, this utopian fantasy explores miracle births, role reversals and concepts of peace and freedom.Flame Tree 451 presents a new series, The Foundations of Feminist Fiction.

Each book features a brand new biography and a Both men and women moved beyond the norms of the male gaze to write from a different gender perspective, sometimes with female protagonists, but also expressing the universal freedom to write on any subject whatsoever.