Have you ever imagined living in a paradise with perfections? Have you ever thought of creating your own utopia which captures your own thoughts and ideas? Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain through her writing created her vision of Utopia. She is a feminist writer and social worker and her story “Sultana’s Dream” is a captivating example of a feminist utopia. The narrator travels to the utopian lady land which is peaceful and technologically advanced. She discovers a state ruled by women, where men are timid and passive, and trained to cook and clean. In other words, Ladyland is an imaginary country where women are dominant over men, and women hold supreme power. Additionally, Ladyland turns out to be futuristic ideal world where women are beyond the segregated Purdah, and men live in isolation and secluded in quarters called mardana (Hossain 1905; 8-9). Ladyland is ruled politically and socially by women and they take place in a public sphere whereas men are confined to private and hidden world. Men are not taken into much consideration in Ladyland. By creating a fantasy world in which women play a dominant role, “Sultana’s Dream” compels us to perceive women’s potential to innovate, to create our own world and to exercise power in men’s world in which women are not demoralized.
The proverb “Men and women are two wheels of the same chariot, without one the other cannot exist” or “Men and women are two sides of the same coin” tend to equalize men and women in every aspects of life. However, both the proverbs turn out to be fictional. Here, in world of discrimination, no women get equal priorities and opportunities that men take advantage off. The fact is that the world is conquered by men only from generations, where as women suffer from sub ordination and oppression. The practice of Purdah is tied with family status and honor that reflects respect in the community. Women are