Herland reflects Lee’s definition through the male traveler’s perspectives on the women of Herland. Over-sexualization is especially present in Terry, the traveler described as a womanizer and brute that emulates masculinity. Terry classifies women based on “those he wanted and those he didn’t; Desirable and Undesirable was his demarcation” (18). Terry’s judgements on women are based solely on their sex, and his attraction as a result. The Herland women are foreign to the concept of over-sexualization, so when the travelers have certain expectations of them based on their sex they can not understand. When the travelers marry the Herland women, they refuse to assume the men’s last names, have sexual relations for recreational purposes, live
