Creating Gender

The poor

• Have little protection from the toxic environment
  
• Do not have medical care or advanced technology

However they are still breeding! They live in the 'glop' (megalopolis) among the ruins of the old cities, an area rife with diseases and with poor water supplies and no natural food. Society is organized (disorganized) around tribe-like warring gangs.

Piercy suggests that they may represent the future. They can also be seen as a remnant of nature, from which a new force could arise.

Cyborg

Dystopias and Utopias

Gender in the net

Mothering

Reproductive technology

Violence