Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Reproduction in Science Fiction

This article examines how science fiction looks at human reproduction.  Consider that forced reproduction is not just a violation of the body, but often amounts to a couple decades or so of slavery in the form of forced child care.
Tags: gender studies, networking, reading, science fiction
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valarltd

valarltd

March 26 2012, 12:33:45 UTC 9 years ago

Working on cyberpunk now. The main female characters have been given hysterectomies--without their consent, one at age 15--so that their bodies will never impede the pleasures of men. Neither of them are happy about this.

On the other hand, the outside world is polluted and toxic to the point that most women simply can't have children, and the ones that are born don't live long. People die around age 60.

The corporations play hard on this, promoting their arcologies, with clean air, clean water and real food, where happy families of parents, infants and grandparents all play under artifical suns in parks with real grass and trees. Although once you move in, you never leave. On your death, your body goes to the recycling vats and is broken into component elements and used to make things for the rest of the arcology.