Femlandia

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That’s from the same speech where Lessing claimed that feminism had “pretty much” achieved equality for women. and that gruff dismissal of an entire segment of the population is indicative of how this book deals with any kind of nuance—it doesn't.

i've already written far too many words in my little reviewing journal trying to figure out why i didn't love it, and now i've missed pub date, so you tell me. Very dark and maybe not the right sort of genre to read when our real world feels like we are living in a dystopian nightmare but ‘enjoyable’ nonetheless. The novel is done no favors by its use of very short chapters (four pages, on average), which is not too strange for a thriller but falls flat here. I am a bookseller, I have the context of Dalcher's two previous novels and I am also currently enjoying a "Women of SFF Literature" year, in which 95% of the books I read are written by women of various backgrounds.Decades ago, a group of women banded together to form a women’s only colony, free from the rules of the states.

She earned her doctorate in theoretical linguistics from Georgetown University, specializing in the phonetics of sound change in Italian and British dialects. A chilling look into an alternate near future where a woman and her daughter seek refuge in a women-only colony, only to find that the safe haven they were hoping for is the most dangerous place they could be. I could kill every single one of them, starting with Nick, continuing with Robert, and ending with the tattooed assholes who stole my kitchen pots. I found it well written and a fascinating look at how cults are formed, how the abused can become abusers, how powerful extremist views can become, and so, so much more.Welcome to the feminist utopia Femlandia: womyn-oriented, self sufficient,cooperative, safe, accepting, natural, free place promises the women a world without men equals to a world without worry as it’s advertised by cofounder Jennifer Jones. I get the ideal of a women led society but as I had expected ideals are quickly dropped and an imposing hierarchy takes their place.

It is boring, predictable and just shows how disconnected she is from whom I am fairly certain will be many of her readers. Laura Bradford of Bradford Literary Agency represents three of Christina's novels: VOX, Q (Master Class in the US), and FEMLANDIA. The book centres on Miranda, a woman in her forties pregnant with her second child, heading to Femlandia with her 16 year old daughter Emma after her husband Nick drives off a cliff because he can't handle the financial crisis. I toss in a dystopian book every once in a while because of this - it feels so vividly real, like this could happen, and that scares the heck out of me.

But I couldn't take Emma's, not once I suspected how deep this rabbit hole was going, and I counted on hocking my engagement ring. There are lots of stories out there that explore what society might look like without the framework of patriarchy; unfortunately this isn’t one of the better ones.