"Born Free: A Feminist Fable"
| Title | "Born Free: A Feminist Fable" |
| Year for Search | 1974 |
| Authors | Pogrebin, Letty Cottin(b. 1939) |
| Secondary Authors | Tripp, Maggie |
| Secondary Title | Woman in the Year 2000 |
| Pagination | 3-24 |
| Date Published | 1974 |
| Publisher | Arbor House |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | Female author, US author |
| Annotation | Feminist eutopia. The story follows the first thirteen years of the life of a girl born into an egalitarian society at midnight on January 1, 2000. Each person works twenty-five hours a week with an additional six hours a month of volunteer work, although they can arrange their hours as they choose (11-12). Much of the story concerns childbirth, day-care, which is available everywhere, and education, all with many alternative arrangements. People are completely free to arrange their relationships (6). Male and female contraception is freely available, and abortion is a woman’s right (7). Cooperative housekeeping (9). All sport, including professional sport is mixed sex (18). Gay people are now completely accepted (22-23). The U.S. is now a parliamentary system rather than a presidential one (4). The female author was an editor of Ms. Magazine. |
| Info Notes | The Table of Contents incorrectly gives the first page as 1. |
| Holding Institutions | DLC, PSt |
| Author Note | The female author (b. 1939) was an editor of Ms. Magazine. |
| Full Text | 1974 Pogrebin, Letty Cottin (b. 1939). “Born Free: A Feminist Fable.” Woman in the Year 2000. Ed. Maggie Tripp (New York: Arbor House, 1974), 3-24. The Table of Contents incorrectly gives the first page as 1. DLC, PSt Feminist eutopia. The story follows the first thirteen years of the life of a girl born into an egalitarian society at midnight on January 1, 2000. Each person works twenty-five hours a week with an additional six hours a month of volunteer work, although they can arrange their hours as they choose (11-12). Much of the story concerns childbirth, day-care, which is available everywhere, and education, all with many alternative arrangements. People are completely free to arrange their relationships (6). Male and female contraception is freely available, and abortion is a woman’s right (7). Cooperative housekeeping (9). All sport, including professional sport is mixed sex (18). Gay people are now completely accepted (22-23). The U.S. is now a parliamentary system rather than a presidential one (4). The female author was an editor of Ms. Magazine. |
