What would happen if all the men would suddenly vanish from the women's world? Or what would happen if all the women vanished from the men's world? Imagine the caos and turmoil that would result... imagine the fear. In Philip Wylie's fantasy novel The Disappearance he creates this fantastic event. He creates two storylines of what each world, male and female, would be like if this happened in the early 1950's. Although a work of fiction, this novel provides insight into the social issues that men and women faced during the fifties, such as women's roles in society, the tense relations of the United States and the Soviet Union, the fear of atomic warfare, and pre-civil rights racism.
