* Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first-wave-feminist utopia, ''Herland'' (1915) -- a manless country where the women reproduced by parthenogenesis. The culture is run by a council of "Over Mothers", and motherhood -- the bearing and rearing of strong, intelligent, competent, happy children -- is the ultimate aim of every member of society. [[UnfortunateImplications (They're also cheerfully eugenicist.)]] They are not a lesbian culture: in fact, they're completely uninterested in sex. One expresses to a male visitor from "Outside" a vague astonishment that in his (presumably North American) culture, married couples engage in sex even when they're not specifically trying to conceive a child: "Do you mean ... that with you, when people marry, they go right on doing this in season and out of season, with no thought of children at all?" (Gilman may have rejected the idea that men were necessary but she wasn't able to see further than other authors of her time, who all assume the same thing -- [[ValuesDissonance that decent ladies don't care about sex]].)

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* Charlotte Perkins Gilman's sufragistist utopia, ''Herland'' (1915) -- a manless country where the women reproduced by parthenogenesis. The culture is run by a council of "Over Mothers", and motherhood -- the bearing and rearing of strong, intelligent, competent, happy children -- is the ultimate aim of every member of society. [[UnfortunateImplications (They're also cheerfully eugenicist.)]] They are not a lesbian culture: in fact, they're completely uninterested in sex. One expresses to a male visitor from "Outside" a vague astonishment that in his (presumably North American) culture, married couples engage in sex even when they're not specifically trying to conceive a child: "Do you mean ... that with you, when people marry, they go right on doing this in season and out of season, with no thought of children at all?" (Gilman may have rejected the idea that men were necessary but she wasn't able to see further than other authors of her time, who all assume the same thing -- [[ValuesDissonance that decent ladies don't care about sex]].)

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