Review: A Satire with a Serious Message
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 31, 2014
This satire on gender role reversal is both hilarious and thought-provoking. Laurie Anne and Kevin Mac create a world in which females are the dominant gender and males are relegated to second-class status. While much of this work is intended to be tongue-in-cheek, I was reminded of J.D. Robb’s more serious "In Death" series where a no-nonsense female police officer is both terrified and mystified by stereotypically feminine interests while her husband is cast in the nurturer role. Unconventional gender roles tend to capture our attention, and the vivid characters and imagery in "If Women Ran the World" are as large a part of why I loved this book as the humor. This witty and intelligent book not only serves up a plateful of steaming satire, but it also shows how attitudes to gender reversal can reveal much about a person, or even an entire culture.