Proud Man by Katharine Burdekin
A genderless traveler from a far-future egalitarian society arrives in 1930s England and, through conversations with baffled locals, dissects the era’s rigid binaries of sex, class, and morality. Their outsider’s perspective exposes the absurdities of patriarchy, marriage, religion, and economic competition, contrasting a humane, cooperative culture with the anxieties and violence of interwar Britain. The narrative blends satire and speculative anthropology to show how human life might look when identity and power are decoupled from gender.
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- 1934
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- British
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- English
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