Deery Brave New World Critical Analysis

Using the critical text, Technology and Gender in Aldous Huxley's Alternative (?) Worlds by June Deery, I have discovered how deeply Brave New World illustrates the negative implications of technology. One insightful point that Deery establishes about the adverse implications of technology is its ability to reinforce gender bias, and how Brave New World particularly illustrates this. Brave New World is a freaky, futuristic prediction and through the use of this critical text I have gained a better understanding of this, and how deeply the impacts of technology could become embedded into our lives.
Deery astutely indicates many ideas in her critical text about the ability of technology to reinforce male dominance. She states that "…recent studies

She proclaims that "separating sex and reproduction has not freed or empowered these women ” and “… that women would bear the burden ”. The argument that she poses is that the mass production of humans, and consequently the abolishment of natural births, has not given females freedom, instead has actually created an additional burden upon them. My understanding has furthered as a result of this because, originally, I did believe that this made the women in Brave New World of greater equality to men. One reason I originally believed this is that it meant they did not have to be mothers and thought to be the ones who have to mind the children. Deery points out that this is not the case, further stating that "… Men's natural processes are not modified in any way… " This point significantly illustrates how in fact gender bias is still hideously present. When produced females either become freemartins, therefore in fact no longer female, or could be one of the 30 percent to develop ‘normally'. Freemartins "get a dose of male sex-hormone" making them sterile, so they cannot get pregnant. The other 30 percent are then drilled “… to take all the contraceptive precaution prescribed by the regulations" to ensure again that no one becomes pregnant. As Deery suggested, females are the only ones affected by the ability to create a sterile population, as no man’s reproductive system is tampered with. How is it fair that freemartins, "have just the slight tendency to grow beards" while males are not subject to expressing any features of women? Why is it that normal developing females have to be the ones who take contraceptive? Why is a man not given this burden? Technology has driven this problem and also has caused the removal of the viviparous mother. Both of these have in turn created a divide between