[3][a] It depicts a science fiction feminist utopia called Ladyland, in which women run everything and men are secluded, in a mirror-image of the traditional practice of purdah.
This results in "a sort of gender-based Planet of the Apes where the roles are reversed and the men are locked away in a technologically advanced future.
"[4][5] There, traditional stereotypes such as “Men have bigger brains” and women are "naturally weak" are countered with logic such as "an elephant also has a bigger and heavier brain" and “a lion is stronger than a man” and yet neither of them dominates men.
In those days, English was seen as a language that would expose girls to new ideas, which society thought unsuitable.
[7][8][9] In 2023, the Spanish artist and filmmaker Isabel Herguera released an animated movie inspired by Sultana's Dream and Begum Rokeya.