Regiment of Women
by Thomas Berger
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Once again, Thomas Berger brings a satiric and irreverent perspective to the human experience, evoking a world that most dare not even imagine and effectively dismantling all existing definitions of sex and gender.Tags
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lquilter Gerd Brantenberg's Egalia's Daughters is a much more insightful gender role reversal society than Berger's Regiment of Women.
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Odd gender-consciousness role reversal--where men are frequent objects of sexual harassment, sexual intercourse is forbidden, and procreation takes place by artificial insemination. Semen is harvested by something resembling artificial milking machines. The novel ends in Maine/Eden.
Very dated dystopia.
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Thomas Berger was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on July 20, 1924. During World War II, he enlisted in the Army and served in England and Germany as part of the Medical Corps. He received a baccalaureate degree with honors from the University of Cincinnati in 1948 and pursued graduate work in English at Columbia University until 1951. He worked as a show more librarian at the Tamiment Institute and Library in New York and as a summary writer for The New York Times Index. His first novel, Crazy in Berlin, was published in 1958. He wrote numerous books during his lifetime including Killing Time, Who Is Teddy Villanova?, Adventures of the Artificial Woman, Sneaky People, The Houseguest, Meeting Evil, Suspects, Best Friends, and The Feud. Several of his novels were adapted into films including Little Big Man starring Dustin Hoffman and Neighbors starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. He died on July 13, 2014 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1973
- People/Characters
- Georgie Cornell
- Important places
- Republic of Harlem; Maine/Eden
- Epigraph
- To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to His revealed will and approved ordinances; and finally, ... (show all)it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.
John Knox, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, 1558 - Dedication
- To Zulfikar Ghose
- First words
- The dentist's drill of the alarm probed viciously into the diseased pulp of his dream and Georgie Cornell awakened.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Also, he was the one with the protuberant organ.
- Original language
- English
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- English
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