Applying a similar approach at the intersection of masculinity studies and speculative fiction, this analysis utilizes contemporary American feminist utopias as a site for mining new masculinities. These efforts frequently intersect with literary scholarship since they entail analyses of “representation and its connection with wider questions of change and continuity in contemporary, and in some more historical, masculinities and identities” (Edwards 3). 1 There is a resulting effort among masculinity scholars to develop feminist-oriented conceptions of manhood that may challenge and replace these patriarchal gender roles. This conflict has escalated with the recent resurgence of patriarchal ideals of manliness.

1 Two events are considered central in this recent reemergence of traditional masculinities and their (.)ġThe cultural climate of the 21 st century United States is characterized by, among other ideological battles, conflicts between traditional conceptions of manhood and alternative masculinities posited to replace these patriarchal scripts.

Connie decides Angelina would be better off in the future, even with the child sex and the talking cats.

Then Connie sees a kid who looks like Angelina, and she is so upset she bops back to the past.

They don't think sex is bad unless it involves force or coercion.

They let the kids practice sex in the future so they know what's what by the time they grow up.

Whoops-they stumble on a couple of young kids having sex.

Connie is jealous, and remembers breastfeeding her own child and is sad.

They use science so men can breastfeed, too.

Instead, kids learn from adults by doing.

Connie wonders where the school is, but there is no school. If you ever wondered how pillow factories would work in the future, this is the place to go. Lots of discussion of how a future pillow factory works.

Anyway, in the perfect society they make lots of things but nobody is in that much of a hurry, in part because they automate as much of it as they can.All the talk about the perfect society can get a little dull (maybe that's why Piercy threw in the erection, to make sure you were paying attention). He wants to sleep with everybody all the time. Jackrabbit tries to comfort Connie and gets an erection.

Piercy woman on the edge of time