Beatrice the Sixteenth

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Beatrice the Sixteenth: Being the Personal Narrative of Mary Hatherley, M.B., Explorer and Geographer is a 1909 feminist utopian novel by Irene Clyde, a name used by the English lawyer, writer and activist Thomas Baty. It follows Mary Hatherley, a geographical explorer who reaches Armeria, a lost world society without clear binary gender distinctions. Armeria is a monarchy organised around communal life and lifelong partnerships, and its inhabitants follow a vegetarian diet. The novel is presented as a first-person travel narrative. It combines speculative fiction and romance, and treats gender, companionship, marriage and social organisation. The narrative initially avoids gendered pronouns. Later critics have discussed the novel in relation to Clyde's rejection of binary gender, the critique of heterosexual marriage, and Clyde's later editorial work on the feminist journal Urania. Scholars have read the novel as a radical feminist, postgender, queer and transgender text. Critics have also noted its idealised presentation of Armeria, its inclusion of slavery, its preservation of class distinctions, and its use of binary oppositions such as Armeria and Uras, or free people and slaves. Although the novel departs from conventional gender roles, scholars have argued that its institution of monogamous partnership, or "conjux", retains elements of marriage. The novel was little read after publication, but has since been discussed in scholarship on speculative fiction, transgender literature and LGBTQ literature.

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Detalhes

Tipo

Livro

Lançamento

1 de janeiro de 1909

Gêneros

feminist science fiction, romantic fiction, transgender literature, utopian fiction, travel literature, LGBT literature

Criado por

Thomas Baty

Países

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Capa: Wikimedia Commons · Thomas Baty · Public domain · Fonte