Procreation In Strangeland

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This is the journey of the white knight, Sperm, and his princess, Egg, on their journey to Castle infundibulum, which is the outer part of the fallopian tube, and the land of the uterus. With their arrival, it will be decided whether they will become a male or female embryo and in turn that embryo will become a baby! Princess Egg has waited a long time and looked forward for her white knight to find her. It is fate that the two will meet, because there are so many in their homes that it is only chance that they combine. We will be starting out with the princess in her home in the ovary, while the knight is

How does a person come to decide if they want to be a parent or not? The formation of procreative identities in men and women is a complex topic with many influencing factors. Tamara G. Coon Sells set out to distinguish what some of these factors were in her study of 14 unmarried, childfree graduate students (2013, p. 133). Analyzing the narrative submissions of her sample, she was able to pinpoint 5 different themes impacting the development of both men’s and women’s procreative identity: biological, deterrents, fear, hesitation, and pressure (p. 144).

Social reproduction refers to the continuous intergenerational physically and emotionally exhausting household labour that is needed to maintain life (Trotz, lecture, Jan 13, 2016). This kind of labour though is considered to be a woman’s duty. Since an economic activity happens where there is a market, social reproduction is not considered as one as it doesn’t have a visible market. Even though, it doesn’t have market value, domestic work greatly contribute to the economy (Waring, 2013). Since this work is done in homes and by women who are usually marginalized, it remains invisible and thus not considered for pay. This kind of work depends on the traditional division of labour in which women are seen as housewives while men, breadwinners. Thus, the gendering of social reproduction is a result of “doing gender,” where women’s abilities to be mothers are naturalized (Coltrane, 1989); in other words, women are made to fit into the simplistic “domestic = family = heterosexual woman = care and love” equation (Manalansan & Martin, 2008, p.2), while any man who does the caring work in a family is feminized and considered a lesser man (Coltrane, 1989).Thus, a woman’s femininity depends on her motherhood while a man’s masculinity depends on “not doing mother’s work” (Coltrane, 1989, p.473).

Marilynne Robinson is a Pulitzer-winning novelist who has graced us with her essays found in The Death of Adam. Robinson gives the read the feeling of being much more educated than he or she really is. These essays provide readers with different ways of discussing history, religion and society. They, although difficult to comprehend at times, are flawlessly argued and, throughout, are grounded in universal human experience. When reading them, it is hard not to be persuaded, especially if reading them with an open mind.

Without faith, life can feel like an endless, and pointless maze with no escape. Faith is what brings human beings to feel complete in this world full of questions and factual sciences. Bradbury’s short story, “The Man” shows readers how faith plays such a significant role in our lives. In “The Man,” astronauts Captain Hart and Lieutenant Martin came across a complex choice of faith when their rocket ship lands on a planet who had just witnessed Jesus’ second coming. Both characters respond to Jesus, or The Man quite differently. Martin went under the influence of the newly faithful citizens of the planet. He believed and followed their faith, finding a new, refreshing meaning in life, while Hart set out on an impossible mission to see if The Man was truly God. “The Man” tells readers that faith, no matter what kind, is what completes our lives as humans. Science creates a void in life which can only be filled through faith. Faith brings peace and ensures security in our lives by giving us a feeling of courage and a reason to live.

The late 1950s and early 1960s fostered an era of extreme social turmoil. The events of the Cold War combined with the emergence of counterculture movements led the United States in a direction that would permanently change American society. The constant threat of nuclear bombardment provided a platform to criticize traditional modes of authority, while lacking ideals of women’s rights and religious tolerance built upon that platform. Robert Heinlein, a science fiction writer, was one of many in the era finding the current state of society to be inadequate. In Stranger in a Strange Land, written in 1961, Heinlein’s use of stereotyped characters functions to provide Heinlein with an outlet of criticism for late 1950s and early 1960s

Reading descriptions in medical texts, Martin wondered how male-oriented views from textbooks matched so cohesively with those of the interviewees. After some research, Martin realized the thought process of woman during labor matched the text book definitions due the definitions men witnessed during childbirth and illustrated in text books and woman culturally internalized and learned through ideology as a description of contractions vs. giving birth.

Within the novel lie a plethora of sexual remarks and comments made by male characters towards women. Each of these comments add up to promote the idea that women are symbols of sex and that the society these people are living in is extremely phallocentric. Within the novel lie a plethora of sexual remarks and comments made by male characters towards women. Each of these comments add up to promote the idea that women are symbols of sex and that the society these people are living in is extremely phallocentric. The reader first witnesses these remarks when, while at the Games Building getting registered, Richards has a conversation with a young attractive women where he states bluntly, “Nice tits,” and then later, “He leaned forward and swatted her lightly on the rump,”(King 29).

To do so, Levy turns to the experiences of several young women whom she interviews. From her interpretations of these experiences, Levy reaches the conclusion that these women’s sexual nature revolves around their need

image into our heads of a sexual exchange from everyone. In the first chapter the author

Another important aspect of the novel is that of sexuality and of same-sex desire. Froehlich states that, in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries,

Sexual experimentation is another theme that foreshadows part of the 1960s counterculture. Free love and multiple sexual partners was a large part of the Hippie culture and these practices have had a big impact on today's culture as well. The conservative idea of one person for everyone and repressed sexual urges were thrown out the window by the young men and women of the Hippie culture. This novel is an account of the beginning of these practices, showing Dean with multiple partners like Marylou and Camille. Sal also expresses his desire to meet and sleep with several women throughout the novel.

In his article defending procreative beneficence, Julian Savulescu argues that “couples…should select the child, of the possible children they could have, who is expected to have the best life, or at least as good a life as the others, based on the relevant, available information” (2001, 413). In this article, I argue that Savulescu’s conclusion introduces complications which challenge its practical application. These complications can be outlined as follows: a) what is best, in terms of non-disease character traits, is subject to change and irrationality; and b) unfettered selection by reproducers may have profound and unknown impacts on human populations. Accordingly, private, unrestrained genetic selection must be banned in the United States, with research permitted under careful oversight.

While it would be very easy to focus on the constant assault of the sexuality of both the men and women that are represented in this story, I feel that sexuality is only a minor theme. The provocativeness that the story contains is used more to draw people to either listen or view the story itself than present a major theme in sexuality. The major issue that he is trying to bring forward is that of conflict and how it occurs in more than just war. Let's look at the three major conflicts within this story.