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Barbara Ehrenreich, Will Women Still Need Men?

Barbara Ehrenreich, Will Women Still Need Men?

Read Will Women Still Need Men? and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. Which scenario does Ehrenreich title the “Big Divorce”?

The sexes will live together in a place where divorce, birth control, and hanky-panky are outlawed.

The sexes will merge, creating a nation of hermaphrodites.

The sexes will sort into Guy Land and Gal Land.

The sexes will destroy each other in an apocalyptic battle.

2. Which scenario does Ehrenreich title “Scenario B”?

The sexes will merge, creating a nation of hermaphrodites.

The sexes will destroy each other in an apocalyptic battle.

The sexes will sort into Guy Land and Gal Land.

The sexes will live together in a place where divorce, birth control, and hanky-panky are outlawed.

3. What is a “renewable marriage”?

one that is forged by a handshake

one that is re-evaluated every five to seven years

one that cannot be undone under any circumstance

one that can only be dissolved in cases of infidelity

4. What relationship will take precedence in Ehrenreich’s final scenario?

the relationship between lovers

the relationship between friends

the relationship between parents and children

the relationship between neighbors

5. In Ehrenreich’s timeline, what will be humanity’s realization in the year 2999?

Sex is completely unnecessary. Humanity will thus cease to exist.

Men will always be from Mars and women will always be from Venus.

The sexes can’t live without each other, but neither can they be joined at the hip.

Love is a myth.