"The Courage of Sisters"
Title | "The Courage of Sisters" |
Year for Search | 1984 |
Authors | Newport, Cris |
Secondary Authors | Arditti, Rita, Klein, Renate Duelli, and Minden, Shelley |
Secondary Title | Test-Tube Women: What future for Motherhood? |
Pagination | 449-56 |
Date Published | 1984 |
Publisher | Pandora Press |
Place Published | London |
Keywords | US author |
Annotation | 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. |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Full Text | 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. |