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Ten years ago women took over, and now they are busily changing everything, from schools and language to women's and men's thinking. Lisa, the twenty-two-year-old heroine of Turning on the Girls, works at one of the ministries dedicated to mental revolution. Her task: to update women's sexual fantasies. There will be no more masochistic or romantic daydreams! Lisa finds herself slogging through piles of highly unrevolutionary literature, from The Story of O to Harlequin romances. This is what used to turn people on?
Meanwhile, not all men are pleased with this kinder, gentler world. Harmony, an underground men's movement, is planning a violent uprising to put women back in their place. Lisa and her trusty assistant, Justin, are recruited by security forces to infiltrate Harmony. Before long they find themselves in Zone Six-where the unreformable men reside-on the run, trying to save the world as they know it.
Cheryl Benard's deftly comic novel gives us a chance to envision a world designed by women-and to reflect on how such a world would differ from our own.
- Sales Rank: #4320555 in Books
- Published on: 2001-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.09" h x 5.78" w x 8.56" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Women have taken over the world in this gender-centric, rollicking good novel. Called on the carpet for bad behavior and general ineptness, the worst specimens of the male sex are banished to Zone Six by an elite group of New Age Femi-Nazis; borderline males are "re-educated" with counseling and medication. But a creeping romantic urge survives in the triumphant female population. Women still long for male companionship, and black market sales of romantic novels are corroding the very foundations upon which the Revolution was fought. Enter Lisa, an operative of the lauded Ministry of Thought, who is charged with finding an acceptable sexual fantasy for women. Researching centuries of erotica, pornography and outright s&m, Lisa concludes that women have always dreamed and written about dominant, testosterone-laden men. Just as she's about to give up in despair, she is given a new assignment. With Justin, her administrative assistant and a current re-education subject, she is ordered to infiltrate Harmony, a counterrevolutionary underground men's movement. Despite discovering that Harmony meetings are rife with such archaic pursuits as makeovers for women and coed dancing, Lisa and Justin have little to report until they are invited to a special meeting and find themselves stranded in Zone Six with simpering women, redneck men and positive proof of an antirevolutionary coup attempt but no way to transmit their knowledge. Though hampered by a long-drawn-out beginning, the novel is saved by wry humor, backstabbing betrayals and fabulous secondary characters. Deeper than a mere "what-if" fantasy, this contra-Atwoodesque social fiction may satirize political correctness, but it also manages to salute present and future feminist triumphs, albeit in roundabout fashion. (Mar.)Forecast: The title is terrific; the cover that carries it is not: flowery, it gives little clue as to the nature of the novel. But this book will succeed primarily through word of mouth, of which there will be plenty.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
If Dorothy Parker had written Brave New World it might have resembled Benard's satiric vision of a utopia designed and run by women. With the Revolution, the problems of hunger, disease, and poverty are overcome, and crime has become a thing of the past. Lisa, Benard's heroine, works at the Ministry of Thought helping create a body of sexual fantasies appropriate for the new post-Revolution woman. Her assistant, Justin, is in the final stages of his "re-education" and is hoping to be able to rejoin society as a full-fledged citizen. However, a counterrevolution is brewing: a group of disenfranchised men (and the women who love them) have formed an underground movement to restore the old order. Justin accidentally becomes involved, even though he appreciates what the Revolution has brought. Lisa is ordered to infiltrate the group, and as things heat up, Benard explores with wit and insight the war between the sexes and all the confusion that has resulted from the evolution of gender roles over the last few decades. Bonnie Johnston
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Review
"A wickedly amusing novel encompassing most men's secret fantasies and every man's worst nightmare -- a female-run planet." -- Flaunt magazine, March 2001
"Futuristic satire. . . cerebral style with plenty of erotic snippets." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Most of the fun lies in watching how this . . . revolution in burlesque cheerfully plays itself out." -- Elle, April 2001
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Satire? Gimme more!!
By Simon Barrett 'Il Penseroso'
Combines a satirical pop at feminism (and conformity generally) with a fairly riveting quasi-romance and a engaging narratrice. My kind of escapism, the kind that tweaks the mind as you keep on turning those pages. Like this? Try War with the Newts. Try Love in Infant Monkeys. Try You're an Animal, Viskovitz
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Is she being ironic or serious? The answer is "no".
By Lex Myers
"Turning On The Girls" reminds me of the old Saturday Night Live sketch where Chevy Chase resolves a commercial mock-debate by declaring, "Relax! New 'Shimmer' is BOTH a floor wax AND a dessert topping!" It's a novel that wants to be both a spoof of utopian feminism and a feminist utopia. It fails because those two goals are as basically incompatible as dessert topping and floor wax.
For example, one character here is a ten-year-old girl, and we're treated (in the sense of therapy, not dessert) to multiple scenes of her excitedly repeating the lessons she's learned in class today. This is, for the most part, generic Women's Studies 097 material, delivered without any notable wit or insight. (Does Ms. Benard really imagine that anyone who doesn't already agree that female genital mutilation is a Bad Thing will have read this far into the book?) It would be genuinely funny if, for instance, she included a sixteen-year-old girl who's in the habit of reading banned books, getting (or trying to get) tattoos and piercings, and telling her elders where to shove their "nurturing points". But because Benard wants this to be, to some degree, a feminist utopia, she's never able to get the degree of critical distance necessary to make scenes like that possible.
On the other hand, if Benard wants this to be credible as a utopia, it needs to be at least reasonably believable. We may not need an explanation as to how this revolution came about, but there really should be one for how it's sustained. When it comes to one of the tougher questions in that regard-How do they deal with dissent?-she evades the question by descending into lowbrow humor. The opposition, "Restore Harmony", are Baywatch-watching buffoons who pose no credible threat to the regime.
That question is certainly one that deserves more thought. A censorial feminist dictatorship isn't going to be opposed merely by anti-feminists; it's also going to be opposed by those who are anti-censorship and anti-authoritarian. Banning Anne Rice, Ayn Rand, and (apparently) the Bible will earn one enemies from all across the political spectrum, many of whom will not be averse to violence.
But of course, she has to make the new order a dictatorship: the basic premise of the novel is as a spoof on Rush Limbaugh's notion of "FemiNazis". However, Benard rather likes the idea of women being in charge of everything, so she makes them nice Nazis. And in order to prevent the result from resembling "Bambi Vs. Godzilla", she has to make the opposition nice, stupid Nazis. It just doesn't work. Nice Nazis are neither likable, believable, nor inspiring.
Least forgivably of all, they're not that funny. Yeah, I know there are some who disagree, but for me, a line like "Give them an inch, and they'll have things back the way they were before, faster than you can say 'clitoridectomy'" doesn't exactly leave me rolling on the floor with laughter.
Maybe Benard was aiming for balance, but the whole thing comes off more as muddled. "Turning On The Girls" is a novel that simultaneously manages to take itself too seriously to be really funny, and be too silly to take seriously.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
NOT a "feminist" novel but a good light-hearted beach book
By Douglas Herbert
Jennifer Crusie meets Gloria Steinem and a good time is had by all.
The author makes no secret of her intentions here -- from the start she explicitly says that her sci-fi premise (the feminists have taken over and are trying to figure out what to do with all those incorrigible men) is not plausible. But who cares? As she says, if a man like Orwell can write a novel with talking animal characters, she's "entitled."
Although a light read, the author's detailed knowledge of the various genres of "erotica" and feminist writings about it (from de Sade to romance novels to Paglia to Ayn Rand) sustains the book intellectually.
The Orwell reference fits, but only if you think Animal Farm and not 1984. It definitely is not one of those angry, serious 1980s "feminist sci-fi" books like Margaret Atwood's "A Handmaid's Tale" or Suzy McKee Charnas'"Walk to the End of the Earth." If your expectations are more along the lines of Connie Willis' lighter works, the Bridget Jones series, or even ... romance queen Jennifer Crusie, you won't be disappointed.
One final warning -- despite the packaging, this book is not erotica.
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