With Her in Ourland (Aziloth Books)

Charlotte Perkins Gilmans Herland Trilogy is widely recognized as a classic of early feminist literature. It recounts the utopian advances made in Herland - a parthenogenetic all-female society isolated from the rest of humanity for 2000 years - and the disruption caused by the arrival of three male American adventurers. With Her in Ourland is the third and final instalment of the saga and has Herlander Ellador now married (platonically) to Vandyck Jennings leaving her home and engaging in a tour of Ourland - the rest of the world. Elladors calm logical responses to the problems of war poverty misogyny racial prejudice and a host of other worldly evils allow Gilman to continue her satirical dystopian critique of the so-called civilized world with husband Vandycks complacent acceptance of worldly injustice acting as the perfect foil to Ellador/Gilmans prescriptions for setting the place to rights. The result is a tour de force of Charlotte Gilmans wit and political perception making for an astute and distinctly prescient account of both our past and present-day problems.