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Plot Summary of The Gender Wars
"When women take over the world, male values such as logic and reasoning become obsolete in favor of "a woman's way of knowing", a system based on a woman's feelings. Then when it becomes possible to create an androgynous unisex woman who can reproduce by herself, men are in danger of becoming extinct. There is only one person who can save men, and she is a cloned female genetically designed to be a perfect woman, but to do that she would have to go against the established female government and as a perfect woman does she even want to save imperfect men?
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Frederick Beaudoin, Resident Scholar

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FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Coming of age Yes
Youngster becomes - guardian of justice
Repressive society story Yes
Repressive because: - controls your mind - controls your sex
Story involving clones/duplicates? - good clones/duplicates
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Clones Yes

Main Character
Identity: - clone
Profession/status: - champion of justice
Age: - a kid
Has magical/special powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character: - mind reading - can read emotions
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - very athletic

Main Adversary
Identity: - an organization
Age: - long-lived adults
Profession/status: - bureaucrat
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.

Setting
Terrain - Forests - Domed/Underground City
Earth setting: - near future (later in 21st century)
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
scientific jargon? (SF only) - a moderate amount of scientific explanation
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - society controls main character's sexing - actual description of sex
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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