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Charlotte Haldane (née Franken, first married name Burghes; 27 April 1894 – 16 March 1969) was a British feminist author.〔Elizabeth Russell, "The Loss of the Feminine Principle in Charlotte Haldane's ''Man's World'' and Katherine Burdekin's "Swastika Night" in Lucie Armitt, ''Where no man has gone before : women and science fiction''. London Routledge, 1991. ISBN 0415044472 . (pp. 15-28)〕 Her second husband was the biologist J.B.S. Haldane. == Biography == Charlotte Franken was born in Sydenham, London.〔W D Rubinstein; Michael Jolles; Hilary L Rubinstein, ''The Palgrave dictionary of Anglo-Jewish history''. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.ISBN 1403939101 (pp. 387–388)〕 Her parents were Jewish immigrants, her father, Joseph, a German fur trader. In 1906 the family moved to Antwerp. She enrolled on a typing course in London. Charlotte later described herself as a "feminist and suffragette" from the age of sixteen.〔 During the First World War her parents were interned but emigrated in 1915 to the United States. She married Jack Burghes in 1918 and they had a son Ronnie. Charlotte joined the ''Daily Express'' as a journalist in 1920; she also became an advocate of divorce reform, married women's employment, and easier access to contraception.〔 In 1924 however she interviewed the biologist J.B.S. Haldane for the ''Daily Express'' and they soon became friends. She then had a scandalous divorce from her husband, before marrying Haldane in 1926.〔 In the same year, Haldane wrote a dystopian novel, ''Man's World''. ''Man's World'' is set in a world ruled by a scientific male elite, who restrict the number of women to be born.〔 From adolescence women in this world are either made into "vocational mothers", or if they have no interest in motherhood, they are sterilized by the government and become "neuters".〔 ''Man's World'' is sometimes compared to other dystopian novels of the interwar period, including Aldous Huxley's ''Brave New World'' and Katharine Burdekin's ''Swastika Night''.〔〔"Other dystopias of the period like Charlotte Haldane's ''Man's World'' (1926) and Katherine Burdekin's ''Swastika Night'' (1937) investigate the ways in which gender informs totalitarian regimes". David Seed, ''A Companion To Science Fiction''. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. ISBN 1405112182 (p. 484)〕 Haldane's 1927 book ''Motherhood and Its Enemies'' drew some criticism for its attacks on spinsters and suffragates for "devaluing motherhood" and causing male-female "sex antagonism." Despite Haldane's feminism, Sheila Jeffreys has called ''Motherhood and its Enemies'' "an antifeminist classic".〔Susan Squier, "Sexual Biopolitics in ''Man's World''; the writings of Charlotte Haldane". in Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, (eds.) ''Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers, 1889-1939''. University of North Carolina Press, 2009 ISBN 0807844144 (pp. 137–155)〕 In 1937, she joined the Communist Party of Great Britain.〔 During this time, she also worked as editor of the anti-fascist magazine ''Woman Today''.〔 After a wartime trip to the Soviet Union, she became disillusioned with Communism, which J.B.S. still believed in, writing about it in ''Russian Newsreel''.〔 The Haldanes separated in 1942, divorcing in 1945.〔 J.B.S. later married Helen Spurway. She spent her last years writing biographies of several historical figures.〔 She died in 1969 of pneumonia.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charlotte Haldane」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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