The Feminist Utopia Project
The Feminist Utopia Project is a collection of essays that evaluates many issues plaguing modern day society, such as reproductive justice, sexuality, racial justice, health care, and disability rights. The collection is intended to be a device to deliver more outsider information on modern-day issues. By exploring topics of heavy debate in a more positive light in both these Utopian societies as well as present-day criticisms, points of view that were otherwise hidden in the rafters can be brought out into the limelight and given the attention they need. Utopian visions of reproductive justice include present-day critiques by using analogies that we can understand and learn from, such as the creation of the Constitution…show more content… While she may be fictional, Mei’s experience with her birth control is a common problem for a lot of American teens who do not have easily accessible methods of birth control. There are also the stories that Mei is told from before “the Law” was passed, making abortions illegal in many places, and tightening up access to affordable birth control. This is a problem already rampant in American society, and even though the teen pregnancy rate and teen birth rate are both declining, it remains an issue at large. Birth control, as well as the right to choose what to do with one’s own body, are things that would be free and readily available in an ideal world. Unfortunately, this is not an ideal world, and women are still being told by older, white men what they can and cannot do with their bodies, despite the morality of the…show more content… The point of this piece was to show how much of an impact a baby can have on a young woman’s life, and even though it most likely wasn’t intentional, it adds an element of admiration for mothers who go through their life as a routine in order to provide for their children and family. If Sophia (the keeper of the schedule) had better access to birth control and abortions, as well as improved access to information about safe sex, then she would not have to grow up way before her time. She is being forced into the role of an adult because of the lawmakers in Congress and state legislatures that decide that they know what is better for her body than she
