The End Of This Day's Business
Burdekin, Katharine
£70.00
The End Of This Day’s Business
By Katharine Burdekin
The Feminist Press, New York, 1989. Paperback/Soft Cover Approx 21.5cm H x 14cm W. 190pp (inc Afterword by Daphne Patai & Notes), plus 6 pages advertising FP titles.
Book condition: Used. Very Good. Corners v slightly turned/rubbed; No creasing to spine or covers; Inside is clean, bright and tight; No tears or annotations.
Overall Condition: Very Good
A feminist utopia/dystopia novel by the author of Swastika Night (pseud Murray Constantine), written in 1935 and published posthumously in 1989.
“The End Of This Day’s Business, set more than four thousand years in the future, depicts a truly utopian way of life, a global society in which distinct national cultures are preserved but coexist without competitive nationalism, violence, or war. Women, characterised as the reasonable sex in this society, care for the earth and all its creatures. Only one price must be paid for this harmony. It is the subjection of men, who, stripped of their history and deprived of any knowledge of women’s sacred rights, complacently accept their ‘natural’ inferiority. The plot turns on the desire of one woman, Grania, an artist and leader, to teach her son what is forbidden for men to know. Risking both their lives, she tells the story of when men dominated, especially of the twentieth-century rise of fascism, and the subsequent world transformation as life-loving women took over from death-loving men.”
Katharine Burdekin (née Cade), 1896-1963. Burdekin began using the pseudonym Murray Constantine in 1934 allegedly to protect her family from the risk of repercussions and attacks. Several of her novels, political in nature and strongly critical of fascism, have been described as feminist utopian/dystopian fiction. Murray Constantine's true identity was not confirmed until two decades after her death.