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This book is described as a story of a radically feminist utopia that is still relevant today- this is absolutely not true.
This was written in the early 20th century and we can overlook some things by remembering the text’s historical context, but this struck me as a horribly problematic with a pro-eugenics stance that places the white “aryan” society that “breeds out” imperfection as perfect.

Unfortunate narrator doing Native American accents that sound as racist as the fact they’re referred to in the text as ‘savages’- it’s from the perspective of an early 1900s man and the author was of that era too so it’s not really surprising, just disappointing; a radical feminist novel still stuck in colonialist sentiment- but I’m going to stick it out and see what happens when they arrive in Herland

Sprawling and honest and full of words I’d forgotten existed