Petra Mayerhofer <pm@IER.UNI-STUTTGART.DE> wrote:
>On other birth control books: Has somebody already suggested
>'Barrayar' by Bujold?
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>Naismith marries somebody from the militaristic, patriarchal
>Barrayar and moves there. They want a child immediately. It is
>extensively discussed how strange an in vivo pregnancy feels for
>Naismith. Furthermore, briefly a fantasy of her is described to get
>as many children as possible, now that there are no restrictions. One
>gets the impression that Bujold thinks that without outer pressure
>(no money or space restrictions) women like to get children by the
>dozen.
My impression of Bujold is that her characters are individuals and don't
represent large classes or categories. Part of the point of the Miles
stories is that they center on a very unusual individual.
Of course some women would want large numbers of children (without
estimating how many women that "some" is!). And certainly, many more would
think about it a little, or fantasize about it some.
Neil
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