"The Courage of Sisters"

Year for Search
1984
Secondary Title
Test-Tube Women: What future for Motherhood?
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Dystopia set after a limited nuclear war. No explanation is given but many more girls are being born than boys and the state requires that girls be aborted. The story focuses on a woman pregnant with a girl who chooses to leave to find women who live in the Barrens so that they can have their children.

Pagination
449-56
Published Date

1984

Publisher
Pandora Press
Place Published
London
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1984 Newport, Cris. “The Courage of Sisters.” Test-Tube Women: What Future for Motherhood? Ed. Rita Arditti, Renate Duelli Klein, and Shelley Minden (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 449-56. PSt

Dystopia set after a limited nuclear war. No explanation is given but many more girls are being born than boys and the state requires that girls be aborted. The story focuses on a woman pregnant with a girl who chooses to leave to find women who live in the Barrens so that they can have their children. U.S. author.

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