Jo (The Book Geek)'s Reviews > Herland

Being as this is feminist literature, and I also consider myself a feminist, I feel like I should have enjoyed this more than I did. I'm going to come right out with the main criticism that I have for this book. I think there was way too much time spent focusing on the three male's that visited Herland, and their actual opinions of the women they found there. Also, the women have apparently been reproducing with thin air, having babies with a lack of men. I suppose I just found it bizarre.

Apparently this is the very first feminist utopian novel that has ever been written, and Gilman spends a lot of time discussing women, the ill treatments of women etc.. It does make good discussion material and was rather thought provoking. I think essentially, I just expected more from this.