Vandyck's Herland Is An Ideal Society

Across the world women suffer from war, inequality, intimacy, lack of education, and other problems. In most countries, most women live in a society that is a dystopia to them. However, in Herland there is no inequality for women, no intimacy, and all the women are well educated. Herland consist of only women where motherhood is a major practice or to them a religion. There are no masculine male figures or god, only nurturing, gardening, and studying of science. War does not exist nor does competition exist everyone strive to up lift one another. Herland is a society perfect for women or a feminist, which is why Herland is the epitome of a Utopia. Herland have copious characteristics of a Utopia such as eugenics tactics, deconstruction of the norm, and an ideal society.
Herland consist of a governor or leaders exploiting eugenics is a common characteristic of a utopia. The women of Herland used eugenics tactics to maintain their balanced population. When Herland begins to over populate the female dwellers would breed a certain amount of kittens and limit parthenogenesis of the human women. In addition, they …show more content…
In Vandyck society women are not as athletic, manly built, and education as the women of Herland. In the beginning of the story Vandyck and his friends were out ran by two females, later Terry admits his defeated, nevertheless, gave credit to the men who he believed to dwell with the women of the country. Ordinarily, women are not as fast as men are, but in Herland, the women were more athletic. Another norm mechanism that is critique is the architecture of Herland created by the women and their education. Stereotypically, women are usually “wage earners” or “stay at home mothers” according to Terry not philosophers or engineers. In Herland Vandyck and his friends, norms were decomposed and formed a new structure in the benefit of the