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The New Gulliver, or, The Adventures of Lemuel Gulliver Jr in Capovolta
| Author: | Esmé Dodderidge |
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Women's Press, 1988 Taplinger Publishing Company, 1979 |
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| Book Type: | Novel |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Fantasy of Manners |
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Synopsis
"Although there exist many feminist novels, 'The New Gulliver' is distinctive. In reading it, l felt I had grown, not merely wiser but more humane. It has the uncanny ability to strike at the heart of the contemporary debate about male-female roles and to expose the super?ciality of so much of the prevailing debate. Yet there is nothing strident about it. The New Gulliver is a classic not only of the women's movement but the unending movement to see all people as unique and to judge them on their merits."-Jeffrey L. Lant
Women, take heart! Here at last is a book that will carry the case of women's rights directly to the opposite sex. As delectably readable as it is trenchant, The New Gulliver blends fantasy and social satire in a modern novel that illuminates every aspect of the male-female relationship and exposes every sexist injustice. No one has ever presented women's rights as tellingly because no one has done it so amusingly.
On a secret mission, a spacecraft crashes over unexplored territory. The sole survivor, Lemuel Gulliver, Jr., a handsome young astronaut, awakens in a strange country called Capovolta. There he is nursed back to health by a family whose mother and daughter hold important jobs and whose father cooks and takes care of the household chores. As this modern Gulliver learns the language and falls in love with the daughter. He realizes that his hosts are no exception to the social norm-for Capovolta is an advanced matriarchal culture where the sex roles are the very reverse of our own. Long before Gulliver becomes a "househusband," male readers will be squirming while women will delight in this witty and penetrating twist on what they've always known.
Esme Dodderidge has delivered a brilliant satire of sexism in society. Her amusingly ingenious ploys and the novel's pervasive ironical undertone are the sources for constant surprise. Every woman will want to give this book to the men in her life.
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