A review by the_book_tale
Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes by Gerd Brantenberg

challenging emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Egalia’s Daughters is genuinely one of the weirdness novels I have ever read. I picked it up as it was a gift and I am a connoisseur of feminist fiction/dystopia. It was definitely in a feminist novel, but made its point in a way no other novel I’ve read ever had. The story takes place in a society similar to ours except women have been the dominant gender for all of history. Men stay at home and raise the children while women work. Men wear makeup and worry about dressing up every day while it is not a concern for women. Men are generally treated very poorly and often don’t get to make choices about their life. The story itself is about a group of men who are fighting to change their society and bring about equality for men. The book tackles many issues faced in the past by women in the real world such as the fight for employment, birth control, rights in a marriage, and even more, but it does it from the perspective of men being the ones oppressed. The story was very compelling, and I absolutely loved the way it ended. My only complaint was that h never felt really attached to any of the characters. Other than that Egalia’s Daughters was a very good and extremely fascinating read. Anyone who read feminist fiction should definitely pick up this hidden gem.