After saying that men who change gender are ‘fighting back against the natural superiority of women’, novelist announces trans-themed follow-up to 80s bestseller
In 1983, English author Fay Weldon wrote her most famous work: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, a bawdy, feminist black comedy about a woman exacting revenge on her unfaithful husband. More than 30 years later, it has been announced that Weldon, now 84, is writing a sequel about a man who changes gender to regain power lost after the feminist revolution.
The Death of a She-Devil, which will be published by Head of Zeus in April 2017, follows Weldon’s recent comments about transgenderism and feminism to the Sunday Times, where she said women now lived easier lives than men and that: “The only way men have of fighting back against the natural superiority of women is by becoming women themselves.”
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