Aside from "Sultana's Dream," Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain wrote many other feminist works, including The Secluded Ones, journalistic vignettes first published in 1929 in the Monthly Mohammadi that profiled women living in purdah. They remain one of the most compelling and revealing primary source documents on purdah in Southern Asia.
"Sultana's Dream" is often praised for its use of science fiction themes and imagery, as it predates most Western feminist experimentation in this genre by about 50 years. Prominent science-fiction and speculative fiction writers Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin have seen similar relationships between nature and society, women and technology, and the...
