Feminism And Issues In Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward

In the late 19th century many Americans were starving, diseases were being spread, and social problems rose from the industrial revolution. The bad effects caused many people to think about what the future would be like and hoping it would be a better world. Many authors wrote utopian novels imagining what the future holds hoping for a perfect society in which they are criticizing the inadequate society they live in. During the 19th century authors wrote about feminism, and issues that the economy has brought and provided solutions to make an ideal society. Many of the issues that were going on in the 19th century and what authors criticized are some of the issues we face in the contemporary world, including discrimination, racism, unemployment
In his novel Edward proposed various solutions that would make a society more suitable. He talks about the labor strikes, education and unemployment which are the prominent issues of the time. He talked about how in the future the industrial army provides jobs and education for anyone. How people get to choose their own jobs and what to study. In the future everyone gets the same amount of money where everyone is content and there is no more jealously or violence because people are now earning the same amount and the government provides supplies to the people, “We have no wars now, and our governments no war powers, but in order to protect every citizen against hunger, cold, and nakedness, and provide for all his physical and mental needs, the function is assumed of directing his industry for a term of years”. Another problem that was being faced in the 19th century was the inequality of children and women labor. In his novel, the future required children to no longer work and are enlisted in school till the age 21. In the future there was also women rights, women are able to gain the equal amount in
In the 19th century there were few women rights in which women were seen submissive to men. In Herland Charlotte created a country where only women are inhabited. Three men are told about this extraordinary civilized society and are skeptical only women live there. A utopia of sorts, it’s a land that values progress, peace, and order. As the men adjust to their nascent existence, they grow increasingly ashamed of the patriarchal home they left behind in the United States. Terry, one of the men, echoes the ideas of the Western world at the turn of the century: “They would fight among themselves…for women always do. We mustn't look to find any sort of order and organization." In the entire novel Terry didn’t like or believe that women can ever govern a country that is civilized, he believed that there had to be men living in there and always made remarks “Nothing irritated Terry more than to have us assume that there were no men; but there were no signs of them in the books they gave us, or the