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The strike of a sex

Chapter 3: AUTHOR’S PREFACE.
By George Noyes Miller
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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.

AUTHOR’S PREFACE.

To tell the truth, I put forth this slight piece of literature in much fear and trembling. Not that I had any morbid dread of literary condemnation, or any solicitude about financial failure. My anxiety was solely in regard to the reception that my little book might meet from women. To my mind, there was no other judge: and I awaited her verdict in real suspense.

But my suspense was happily short and in its relief, I think that I tasted something like the overpowering joy which the prisoner feels when he is declared to be innocent. The letters of gratitude which I have received and am receiving from noble women in two continents have fairly overwhelmed me and they have rewarded me a hundredfold.

The whole world is plainly in travail to lift the primeval curse of brutalizing labour from man. But the just, at least, are beginning to perceive that the primeval curse must also be lifted from woman. When these long-borne curses are really lifted from man and woman—what then?

The Garden of Eden!

George Noyes Miller.

188, West Houston St., N.Y.
Jan., 1891.