Zoe Fairbairns Book order
Zoe Fairbairns's writing centers on feminist themes and women's issues, often employing a tense, dystopian style to explore societal challenges. With a background in journalism and creative writing instruction, her work delves into the complexities of personal and community responsibility. She skillfully examines social concerns, portraying the struggles of women navigating oppression and identity within patriarchal structures. Fairbairns's narratives are marked by a keen insight into human psychology and the dynamics of social change.
- 2000
- 1979
First published in 1979 and still in print, Benefits is a feminist dystopia in which a patriarchal state uses the social security system to impose repressive lifestyles on women. It was nominated for the Philip K Dick Award for science fiction, and the Hawthornden Prize for imaginative literature. It has been published throughout the world, and adapted for the stage at the Albany Empire in Deptford, London. It is the original source of the quotation widely featured on alternative Christmas cards: “THE BIRTH OF A MALE WHO THINKS HE‘S GOD ISN’T SUCH A RARE EVENT”. Widely interpreted as an attack on Margaret Thatcher's welfare policies, Benefits was in fact written before she came to power. --from the author's website
