"[PDF] DOWNLOAD Sultana's Dream and Padmarag (Penguin Classics)
One of the first science-fiction utopian stories and one of the first feminist utopias by celebrated pioneering feminist, educator, activist, and Bengali writer Rokeya Hossain A Penguin Classics EditionSultana, a Muslim woman living in colonial India, falls asleep and wakes up in a transformed future world: a utopia in which men rather than women are relegated to the domestic sphere. Women, now free to explore the outside world at will and pursue an education, run a peaceful and just society, using scientific principles to harvest energy from the sun and live in harmony with nature. Sultana’ s Dream was published in 1905 in the Indian Ladies Magazine, the first English language periodical edited by, and targeted at, Indian women. Like the periodical, the story broke new ground.As a pioneering work of science fiction and feminist utopian literature at the turn of the century, Sultana’ s Dream is strikingly advanced in its critique of patriarchy, war, industrialization, and
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