![]() Instead of slut-shaming, I projected a society in which sex was available, accepted, and non-hierarchicalĭuring the heyday of the second wave of the women’s movement, a number of utopias were created ( Joanna Russ’s The Female Man, James Tiptree’s Houston, Houston Do You Read?, Ursula K Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, Elisabeth Mann Borgese’s My Own Utopia from The Ascent of Woman, and Sally Miller Gearhart’s The Wanderground among them) and now they aren’t. The real earning power of working people diminishes every year. We have made some social gains and many economic losses. We’ll soon finally have legalised marijuana and gay marriage in every state – but unions are being crushed and the safety net of the New Deal and the Johnson era is being abolished one law at a time, while women are forced into the back-alley abortions that once killed so many. The powers that be have allowed for certain social rather than economic gains. ![]() Now, the media are propaganda machines and the only investigative reporting is on Comedy Central, HBO, or the web. ![]() Now, corporations and the very wealthy 1% control elections. Not only has that momentum been lost, but many of the rights we worked so hard to secure are being taken from us by Congress and state legislatures every year.īut we must also understand that the attempt to take away a woman’s control over her body is part of a larger attempt to take away any real control from most of the population. Photograph: Jane BownĪt the time I wrote this novel, women were making huge gains in control of their bodies and their lives. ![]()
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