<< And, incidentally, given that we are on FEMINISTSF, what do feminists
today make of FRIDAY? It's the only one of the six with a female
protagonist, I think.
>>
I didn't like it at all. I read it a couple of years ago after a friend
suggested it since it had a strong female lead character. Let me see if I
remember correctly: she had some sort of father figure she worked for who
provided a good chunk of her self-worth, she went through the usual
"am-I-really-human" angst; and at the end she was forcibly inseminated, then
decided to bear the child anyway, deciding in the process that she was, in
fact, human since she could be a mother, and settled down as a colonist and
joined the PTA and whatever else.
Saved thru childbearing?? Sorry, doesn't make it as feminist IMHO.
Nicole
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