Sultana's Dream (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/sultana/dream/dream.html), by Rokheya Shekhawat Hossein, first published in 1905 in The Indian Ladies' Magazine. The link goes to the fulltext of the story. Utopian science fiction, written in response to the practice of purdah (which she writes about in The Secluded Ones, an essay series which is included in the Feminist Press edition of Sultana's Dream).
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Date: 2009-05-13 07:17 pm (UTC)