![]() Therefore in this paper I will study how a feminist utopia also has its limitations. Patriarchy may be regarded as constantly mutating drug resisting virus that binaries, limits gender within binaries, constructs categories, working to establish supreme authority of the 'one'. In the novel's effort to define a category of 'construction' with all utopic supremacy, it fixes the position of that 'constructed category' with stereotypical and patriarchal "natural" roles of "motherhood" and creation of a 'perfect society'. Somewhere yet in many ways the novel fumbles at the threshold of embodied patriarchy. ![]() The novel is regarded as a feminist utopia. The novel tends to adhere to the stereotypical socially described features of the strategically 'binarized' gendermen and women and then makes an inversion if these stereotypically categorized features in a matriarchal society, it presents. When reading the novel we find the novel describes or defines the appropriate 'femininity' of the "gender"-"woman". ![]() Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1936) well known for her contribution for future feminists, wrote the feminine utopic novel-Herland (1915) which presents an 'isolated' society composed entirely of "women" who reproduces via "parthenogenesis" (asexual reproduction). ![]()
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