In 1905, an Indian Muslim woman named Rokheya Shekhawat Hossain, Bengali by ethnicity, published a sci-fi story - possibly the first of its kind - in the Indian Ladies Magazine in Madras, entitled Sultana's Dream. It is a vision of a female utopia called Ladyland, where women rule and men are locked away. Sultana dreams of Ladyland, guided by Sister Sara, a place where there are only women in public and no men. Sultana is baffled by this strange reversal. How is it that women can walk around freely outside without fear of danger?
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