Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Book Report/Review Example

Women in Herland raise their children, love, nurture, and care for them for having them as their own as they literally own them solely. Until an experiment to reproduce with the presence of a man is recommended by some physicians and allow the union of Van and Ellador just before the novel ends to make way of producing children that they will call them as their offspring, perhaps by means of sexual reproduction, although at the beginning of their relationship friendly treatment with each other and not stereotypical lover is suggested.

Marge Piercy's "Woman on the Edge of Time" is a futurist topic rather than a feminist. The novel is written in 1976. After the difficulty of the protagonist Consuelo Ramo's life in the mental institution, she discovers a world that tackles the year 2037 wherein experimentation to life is present and that motherhood is described as only a career by choice. It says in the novel that reproduction is controlled and a baby can only be born if someone in the society has died. Here, mothers breastfeed their children, nurture and take care of them until they reach the age of 12 years old where children are set free by the mothers as they are born for the society and the mothers to be treated only as an instrument of their existence.

The story suggests the demoralization of women's natural essence and the ability to raise a well-crafted and ideal offspring as the novel put women as the subject of experimentation. Biblically speaking, and in contrast to the two novels Herland and Woman on the Edge of Time, God made man and woman reproduce naturally, which is sexual reproduction or sex as an act of procreation and to raise the family equally. The issues and circumstances of having the difficulty in pregnancy have come up to invent and innovate artificial ways of reproduction from time to time which the new generation applies with the presence of technological advancement for conception (as well as contraception).

Motherhood is not only defined as the one delivering the offspring to the world but it also proposes ways on how to bring the best of the offspring to make this offspring a great contribution to the world. It is the role of every mother to raise their child and provide their every need. However, there is still the word fatherhood as a counterpart of male's involvement in life. As a conclusion, these two genders of man and woman still create a balanced life together to form another individual as a positive outcome of life literally and in some ways literary.