Patchwork Girl

Patriarchy

Mary Shelley's world was strongly patriarchal. Frankenstein's monster is parented by a man, his creator. Frankenstein, like Yod's predecessors, is violent. These monsters epitomize male violence.

 

Denied love he seeks only to destroy; to destroy all that Frankenstein loves.
  The monster pleaded that he might have a mate, a female monster to be his companion. As God made Eve to be man's helpmate?
 

In Body of Glass Gadi likens Yod to the monster, because he, Gadi, is jealous.

Yod starts parodying the monster.

 

The central character of Patchwork Girl, the female monster has no father, or any other male influence.
  Although she is 'born' into a patriarchal society she is not hindered by it. She has a strong sense of herself despite her piebald and patchwork nature.
 

She is able to set off to the new world, alone, to find a life for herself.

 
 

Birth

My birth takes place more than once. In the plea of a bygone monster; from a muddy hole by corpse-light; under the needle, and under the pen.
Or it took place not at all.
But if I hope to tell a good story, I must leapfrog out of the muddle of my several births to the day I parted for the last time with the author of my being, and set out to write my own destiny. (9)

Patchwork girl has the wisdom and strength of several women; perhaps this is why she is not afraid.