The Female Breeders

In the female dominated world males are treated as possession and are basically worthless except for breeding purposes. Neen is a brilliant scientist that discovers that her world is far from perfect and that females are brutal towards male who do not qualify for breeding purposes. It shows how power can corrupt people and to what lengths are they prepared to go to preserve their way of life. The book gave me a lot to think about and to compare it to the modern world. It is disturbing but captivating.

Female Breeders is about the Society of EVE, a world dominated by women and where men are second class citizens. In an effort to change an archaic program, a councilwoman assigned a newly graduated scientist, Neen Salvek, the responsibility of sorting the men into the breeding program or off to retirement. While interviewing several candidates, Neen learns from Tem, a potential breeder, that the program is not what it seems and those within it are not as content with the status quo as the government wants its citizens to think. Embarking on a quest for answers, Neen seeks to uncover the dark secrets behind the breeding program, and in the process, finds herself questioning her role as a cog in the system.

Told with an insightful eye and inquiry into what an extreme matriarchal society is capable of, Female Breeders reminds me of a more dramatic version of the 2015 Canadian Sci-fi mockumentary entitled "No Men Beyond This Point', where men are relegated to second class citizens put on reservations. Comparing these two works of fiction you'll find yourself, as the reader and viewer, respectively, wondering if a world without men ruling it is as perfect a utopia as we imagine or an unchecked power struggle not too dissimilar from what we know of dystopias, or even today.

This work made me think, reflect, and question what it means to be a female in power, or even just a cog in the system, working under the guise that my actions contribute to the greater good, or bad, of society in a ripple effect. Can one person truly make a difference in a bigger, established system? Can a divergent rise above it all to become a voice of reason instead of spiteful dissent against authority? I'm not sure, but this book will have you think otherwise.