Unveiling a Parallel: A Romance by Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant

"Unveiling a Parallel: A Romance" by Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant is a feminist science fiction novel published in 1893. A male traveler journeys to Mars in an "aeroplane," discovering two contrasting societies where gender equality exists. In Paleveria, women have adopted negative masculine traits; in Caskia, equality has fostered kindness in both sexes. As the narrator encounters liberated Martian women and debates traditional gender roles, he must confront his own assumptions about femininity, society, and what true equality means. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Jones, Alice Ilgenfritz, 1846-1905
Author Merchant, Ella
Title Unveiling a Parallel: A Romance
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unveiling_a_Parallel
Credits E-text prepared by Charlene Taylor, Matthew Wheaton, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (archive.org/details/americana)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 70.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Science fiction
Subject Feminist fiction
Subject Utopian fiction
Subject Mars (Planet) -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 42816
Release Date
Last Update Oct 23, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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