> Yeah, Robin, those two are there, but I was referring to Disch's 334, the
> chapter therein on the pregnancy a man undergoes as his wife if working
and
> he doesn't have a job (a wee joke at the expense of old-fashioned [but the
> return of which is highly desired by some] ideas of keeping the bearer of
> children at home etc...
>
> Some of the most stringent thinking through of gender politics can be
found
> in Gwyneth Jones's amazing Aleutian Trilogy, White Queen, North Wind, and
> Phoenix cafe.
Don't know that particular Disch, Doug, nor the Gwyneth Jones trilogy
(currently rereading, glumly, Gibson's cyperpunk). I suppose the Le Guin
and Sturgeon were a little off the point, dealing as they do with transexual
societies (Erminnia would be interested!) rather than male pregnancy.
Doesn't one of Delaney's later novels have a society where sex-change is the
norm? Also, for a (sceptical) version of an all-female society, John
Wyndham's "Consider Her Ways".
Robin
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