ampampquotCridge ridicules the cult of domesticity by exposing its contradictions made especially glaring when enacted by men.ampampquot Carol Farley KesslerMans Rights or How Would You Like It 1870 is a feminist utopian novel by Annie Denton Cridge. Written during the early stages of the American suffragist movement Cridges novel is a work of political satire that uses utopianism and science fiction to explore the progressive political activism of women of the United States and around the world. Highlighting the absurdity of genderbased oppression Cridge produced the first feminist utopian novel in history predating Charlotte Perkins Gilmans Herland 1915 by nearly half a century.In a series of strange prophetic dreams a woman envisions a society on Mars in which women wield absolute power over men.