Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland

• Remarkable how a book dedicated to gender and reproduction, and which anticipates third-wave feminism in its refusal to accept essentialisms, manages to avoid any mention of sexuality. Strategic feminism for Edwardian times?
• Also, the author shows amazing restraint in writing from the male first-person point of view; this could have been bitter satire, but the narrator is treated with such sympathy, one suspects CPG is trying to sway male readers to support political reform.