I’ve often thought that the last barrier to gender discrimination will fall when technology renders gender irelevant. Sherryl Vint examines what Science Fiction, where you can create such worlds, has to say about gender when technology makes it mutable.
She examines two novels, Chip Delany’s Trouble on Triton where a man becomes a woman out of frustraton when the woman he’s obsessed with refuses his advances; and John Varley’s Steel Beach where the protagonist decides that being a woman is just a better ‘fit’.
