A review by bodagirl
Moving the Mountain by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

informative reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

This book was an odd one, in the way that a lot of utopian books are: unendingly didactic explaining how society perfected itself, full of the prejudices of the time in which it was published (talk of eugenics and the little mention of race was derogatory), fantastically unrealistic that everyone would just agree to live together in a society that is "beyond socialism," and horrifyingly soul-crushing as it deals with many of the same issues we face today. That being said it was thought provoking and I'm inclined to try reading the second book in the trilogy just to see if there is more of a narrative

The one real problem I had with this book is that its feminist message is undercut when the male narrator who
Spoilerends up saving his female cousin from her ultra conservative and reactionary father by marrying her and taking her away from that place,
  even though he had been lost in Tibet for 30 years and ignorant of the changes to his America -- ugh.
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