Feminism anxiety
Numerous authors have written works exploring (or revealing) their anxiety with feminism in fairly explicit detail. These are often quite hostile and misogynist, although sometimes they're just weird.
The typical pattern is a story of a world in which women have taken power and how that has led to various problems, most typically including some or all:
- humorlessness
- a moribund, uncreative, non-innovative, society
- sexually frustrated women looking for something
- displays of women characters mutilating or savagely destroying men
These might be distinguished from works which simply offer sexist or anti-feminist portrayals of women or feminists; they are clearly commentaries on organized feminism and the women's movement.
They might be compared with the spate of generation gap anxiety novels, which usually imagined young people killing off old people (classically William Nolan's Logan's Run) but occasionally the reverse (Marge Piercy's Dance the Eagle to Sleep).
Early 20th century
1960s & 70s
- Regiment of Women by Thomas Berger
- The Day of the Women by Pamela Kettle
- Alph by Charles Eric Maine