A World of Women
$42.69
- Paperback
344 pages
- Release Date
7 April 2022
Summary
When a plague wipes out most of the world’s male population and civilization crumbles, women struggle to build an agrarian community in the English countryside.
Imagine a plague that brings society to a standstill by killing off most of the men on Earth. The few men who survive descend into lechery and atavism. Meanwhile, a group of women (accompanied by one virtuous male survivor) leave the wreckage of London to start fresh, establishing a communally run agrarian outpost. But their s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262543354 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262543354 |
| Author: | J.D. Beresford, Astra Taylor |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 344 |
| Release Date: | 7 April 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | MIT Press / Radium Age |
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“Remarkably progressive”–James Lovegrove, The Financial Times
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About The Author
J.D. Beresford
J.D. Beresford (1873-1947) was an English dramatist, journalist, and author. His proto-science fiction novels include The Hampdenshire Wonder (1911), A World of Women (1913), and The Riddle of the Tower (1944, with Esme Wynne-Tyson); he also wrote in the horror and ghost story genres. A great admirer of H.G. Wells, he wrote the first critical study of Wells in 1915. His daughter, Elisabeth Beresford (1926-2010), was creator of the literary and TV franchise The Wombles.
Astra Taylor is director of the philosophical documentaries Zizek! (2005), Examined Life (2008), and What Is Democracy? (2018). She is author of the American Book Award winner The People’s Platform (2014) and Democracy May Not Exist, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone (2019), and coauthor of Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay- The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition (2020). Her latest book is Remake the World- Essays, Reflections, Rebellions (2021).
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