The strike of a sex

Chapter 2: SPECIAL PREFACE TO ENGLISH EDITION.

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A narrator arrives in a prosperous-seeming city and finds it curiously devoid of women, encountering neglected, joyless men and disorderly households. From that striking premise the narrative explores the social and personal effects of a collective female withdrawal from customary domestic and sexual roles, examining how household labor, moral norms, and population concerns shape daily life. Satire and didactic passages depict altered household economies and strained gender relations while advancing speculative remedies for health, purity, and reproductive challenges. The work blends social critique and imaginative conjecture to ask how reorganizing sexual and domestic arrangements might transform private experience and public order.

Printed by the New Temple Press, Grant Road, Croydon.

SPECIAL PREFACE TO ENGLISH EDITION.

An English edition of this celebrated American story seems called for by the great and increasing interest felt in the problem of property in the old and crowded countries of Europe. It is nearly a hundred years since Malthus expounded the true relation between poverty and the increase of the human race: and it is more than thirty years since Darwin, in his “Origin of Species,” showed that the Malthusian Law lies at the basis of all organic evolution. No further apology is needed for a tale which points to a discovery, already tested by experience, which claims to solve, at one and the same time, the Malthusian or population problem, the Darwinian or eugenic problem, the problem of social purity, and the problem of personal health in relation to sex.

F. W. F.