One more thing science fiction had foreseen
Man-made chemicals blamed as many more girls than boys are born in Arctic
What is funny is that last night I read a story by Italian SF writer Lino Aldani ("La costola di Eva", that is "Eve's rib"), in which he imagines a future where women take over, replicating all male patterns, in a sort of feminist Farnham's Freehold. In this story, we are told that women could do that because 500 years before a catastrophe produced an enormous excess of female births.
In French-Canadian Elisabeth Vonarburg's Chronique du Pays des Mères we find something similar: almost only girls are born.
I don't need to tell you what happens in Joanna Russ's The Female Man. Or in John Wyndham's Consider Her Ways
It seems in SF the only way for women to crush sexism is through the numbers: only if we are a lot, we can win, so to speak. And this, it seems, can happen only through some catastrophe for humankind.
What is funny is that last night I read a story by Italian SF writer Lino Aldani ("La costola di Eva", that is "Eve's rib"), in which he imagines a future where women take over, replicating all male patterns, in a sort of feminist Farnham's Freehold. In this story, we are told that women could do that because 500 years before a catastrophe produced an enormous excess of female births.
In French-Canadian Elisabeth Vonarburg's Chronique du Pays des Mères we find something similar: almost only girls are born.
I don't need to tell you what happens in Joanna Russ's The Female Man. Or in John Wyndham's Consider Her Ways
It seems in SF the only way for women to crush sexism is through the numbers: only if we are a lot, we can win, so to speak. And this, it seems, can happen only through some catastrophe for humankind.