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   Published in 1937, twelve years before Orwell’s 1984 , this novel projects a totally male-controlled fascist world that has eliminated women as we know them. They are breeders, kept as cattle, while men in this post-Hitlerian world are embittered automatons, fearful of all feelings, having abolished all history, education, creativity, books, and art. Not even the memory of culture remains. The plot centers on a misfit who asks, as readers must, How could this have happenned? Ann J. Lane calls the novel a brilliant, chilling dystopia.
This is a powerful, haunting vision of the inner and outer worlds of male violence.
– Blanche Wiesen Cook , author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One, 1884-1933