Although I read this fantastic novel years ago, I was recently reminded of it by Judith A. Little’s Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: utopias and dystopias.
At the end of the novel, five options for human reproduction are presented:
- Only partners for life will be able to reproduce, and only once every decade.
- Parthenogenesis, with a few males born every eighth or ninth generation.
- Heterosexual reproduction, but no woman will ever conceive unless she chooses to conceive.
- Heterosexual reproduction, but with a short period of fertility.
- As it has been.
What would you choose and why?
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I don’t see, in this grand plan, where men are castrated and then made into slaves where they are forced to talk about their feelings while holding cats and watching Oprah re-runs. The only downside I can see concerning the female dominated society, is how men will get blamed for all the problems, when they have so little say in its operation.