{"product_id":"theodore-savage-9780262545228b","title":"Theodore Savage","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the earliest feminist science fiction writers, a novel that envisions the fall of civilization—and the plight of the modern woman in a post-apocalyptic wilderness.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen war breaks out in Europe, British civilization collapses overnight. The ironically named protagonist must learn to survive by his wits in a new Britain. When we first meet Savage, he is a complacent civil servant, primarily concerned with romancing his girlfriend. During the brief war, in which both sides use population displacement as a terrible strategic weapon, Savage must battle his fellow countrymen. He shacks up with an ignorant young woman in a forest hut—a kind of inverse Garden of Eden, where no one is happy. Eventually, he sets off in search of other survivors . . . only to discover a primitive society where science and technology have come to be regarded with superstitious awe and terror. A pioneering feminist, Hamilton offers a warning about the degraded state of modern women, who—being “unhandy, unresourceful, superficial”—would suffer a particularly sad fate in a postapocalyptic social order.","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42818877554768,"sku":"9780262545228B","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780262545228-l.jpg?v=1785873721","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/theodore-savage-9780262545228b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}