Turning on the Girls

Ten years ago women took over, & now they are busily changing everything, from schools & language to women's & 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 & 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.Benard, Cheryl is the author of 'Turning on the Girls' with ISBN 9780374281786 and ISBN 0374281785.