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* {{Utopia}}: The story is set in an [[LadyLand all female]] 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 ([[SuperbreedingProgram 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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* {{Utopia}}: The story is set in an [[LadyLand all female]] 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 ([[SuperbreedingProgram 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]].sex.
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* {{Utopia}}: The story is set in an [[LadyLand all female]] 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 ([[SuperbreedingProgram 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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The book is often considered to be the [[Interquel middle volume]] in her utopian trilogy, preceded by ''Moving the Mountain (1911)''. It was first collected in book form in 1979.
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The book is often considered to be the [[Interquel [[{{Interquel}} middle volume]] in her utopian trilogy, preceded by ''Moving the Mountain (1911)''. It was first collected in book form in 1979.
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A utopian novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman portraying a society devoid of men, and exploring the differences brought by this.
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''Herland'' is a [[{{Utopia}} utopian
The story was first published in monthly installments as a serial in ''The Forerunner'', a magazine edited and written by Gilman between 1909 and 1916, with its sequel, ''With Her in Ourland'' beginning immediately thereafter in the
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* {{Asexuality}}: The women of Herland have no concept of sexual attraction or pleasure. Additionally, they are able to reproduce through parthenogenesis, so for them sex is unnecessary.
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* SingleLineOfDescent: Herland's women are all descended from one women who (after their men died out) then had inexplicably gave birth to a child by parthenogenesis. This mutation passed down from her daughters.
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* SingleLineOfDescent: Herland's women are all descended from one women who (after their men died out) then had inexplicably gave given birth to a child by parthenogenesis. This mutation passed down from her daughters.
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* {{Asexuality}}: The women of Herland have no concept of sexual attraction or pleasure. Additionally, they are able to reproduce through parthenogenesis, so for them, sex is obsolete.
* {{Gendercide}}: Herland was founded in the wake of a civil war which killed off all of the men in the country.
* {{Gendercide}}: Herland was founded in the wake of a civil war which killed off all of the men in the country.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Everyone being born from parthenogenis (aside from this being biologically impossible in humans to begin with) would make them all genetically identical-they'd be natural clones. However, this is not shown in the book, and they're distinct enough that eugenics actually can be practiced.
* {{Asexuality}}: The women of Herland have no concept of sexual attraction or pleasure. Additionally, they are able to reproduce through parthenogenesis, so forthem, them sex is obsolete.unnecessary.
* {{Commune}}: Herland is one, with no private property and children raised communally from age two up.
* {{Gendercide}}: Herland was founded in the wake of acivil war volcanic eruption which killed off all most of the men in men, with the country.rest wiped out in civil war with the women.
* {{Asexuality}}: The women of Herland have no concept of sexual attraction or pleasure. Additionally, they are able to reproduce through parthenogenesis, so for
* {{Commune}}: Herland is one, with no private property and children raised communally from age two up.
* {{Gendercide}}: Herland was founded in the wake of a
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* LadyLand: Herland, naturally. Theirs is a society of only women, as men died out two thousand years ago. Inexplicably, they reproduce by parthenogenesis, giving birth to girls in every case.
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* OneGenderRace: Obviously.The story sort of fits this trope, as the inhabitants of Herland are perfectly normal human women but can somehow reproduce asexually, with only girls born.
* SingleLineOfDescent: Herland's women are all descended from one women who (after their men died out) then had inexplicably gave birth to a child by parthenogenesis. This mutation passed down from her daughters.
* TrulySingleParent: All of the women in Herland reproduce by parthenogenesis, so they are "single mothers" in the most literal sense. This began when the men were killed in a disaster and then civil war, with one woman giving birth afterward by herself. All women after this are descended from her.
* SingleLineOfDescent: Herland's women are all descended from one women who (after their men died out) then had inexplicably gave birth to a child by parthenogenesis. This mutation passed down from her daughters.
* TrulySingleParent: All of the women in Herland reproduce by parthenogenesis, so they are "single mothers" in the most literal sense. This began when the men were killed in a disaster and then civil war, with one woman giving birth afterward by herself. All women after this are descended from her.
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This requires genetic modification prior to birth-they just have selective breeding.
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* DesignerBabies: A result of preventing undesirables to give birth.
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* ChromosomeCasting: As per the description, the novel features only female characters.
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* Asexuality: The women of Herland have no concept of sexual attraction or pleasure. Additionally, they are able to reproduce through parthenogenesis, so for them, sex is obsolete.
* Asexuality: The women of Herland have no concept of sexual attraction or pleasure. Additionally, they are able to reproduce through parthenogenesis, so for them, sex is obsolete.
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A utopian novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ''Herland'' portrays Gilman portraying a society entirely without men.
devoid of men.
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*Asexuality: {{Asexuality}}: The women of Herland have no concept of sexual attraction or pleasure. Additionally, they are able to reproduce through parthenogenesis, so for them, sex is obsolete.
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* {{One-Gender Race}}: Obviously.
* UnfortunateImplications: Eugenics is presented as the reason why Herland is so peaceful; they prevent undesirable women from giving birth.
* UnfortunateImplications: Eugenics is presented as the reason why Herland is so peaceful; they prevent undesirable women from giving birth.
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* {{One-Gender Race}}: OneGenderRace: Obviously.
* UnfortunateImplications: Eugenics is presented as the reason why Herland is so peaceful; they prevent undesirable women from giving birth.----
