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[[Category:Reproduction themes]]
[[Category:Reproduction themes]]
[[category:Themes and tropes by name]]

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  • Anderson, Poul. Virgin Planet (1959) - A caste of doctor-priests control the reproductive technology on an all-female planet.
  • Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale - women who can breed have their breeding controlled - other children taken from them,s o they are free to be bred.
  • Burgess, Anthony. The Wanting Seed - homophobic & misanthropic tale in which reproduction is controlled, and infanticide is encouraged
  • Donovan Rita. The Plague Saint - reproduction controlled in the aftermath of an aids-like plague ...
  • Jane Fletcher - A caste of priests control the reproductive technology on an all-female planet.
  • Friesner, Esther. The Psalms of Herod (sequel: The Sword of Mary) (abortion and birth control are outlawed, and reproduction is controlled through infanticide)
  • Hall, Sandi. Wingwomen of Hera (Spinsters / Aunt Lute: 1987)
  • Hall, Sarah. Daughters of the North - Women in the UK are fitted with a cervical coil to prevent reproduction. A group of militant women resist.
  • McNeill, Pearlie. "The Awakening" (in Jen Green & Sarah Lefanu, editors, Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, The Women's Press: 1985)
  • Monteleone, Thomas F. "Breath's a Ware That Will Not Keep" (in Dystopian Visions, edited by Roger Elwood (Prentice Hall: 1975).
  • Payes, Rachel Cosgrove. "Come Take a Dip with Me in the Genetic Pool" (in Dystopian Visions, edited by Roger Elwood (Prentice Hall: 1975).
  • Stewart, Jean. Isis Series. (the evil Elysium society locks fertile women into breeding camps)
  • Tepper, Sheri. The Gates to Women's Country
  • Weston, Susan. Children of the Light. Post-holocaust US. Most men have mysteriously died; society is continued in small enclaves visited by government men who impregnate the women (and very young women). One young man is transported into this grim future and makes a life with the women and children of a small village.
  • Wilhelm, Kate. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
  • Wyndham, John. "Consider Her Ways"