Females began to be manufactured instead of being born, genetically engineered to the male specification of the "ideal" woman.The eves live their lives in a school designed to teach them how to suppress their emotions, to be pleasing to men and to be beautiful. The novel is set in a world where a preference for male offspring and the availability of gender-selection in pregnancy eventually caused women to die out entirely. more n "eve", a teenage girl whose only options from birth are to fulfill one of three designated roles for women in society- to become either a wife and mother, a sex slave or a celibate schoolmistress. Review 2: This is book is an instant classic - a disturbing, insightful and relevant exploration of female oppression.Frieda is a. I really, really liked how scared I was, how drawn in, how thrilled and chilled. But the longer I read, the more details I started noticing, the more similarities I found between the mentality of many women today and the mentality of the girls in this novel. At first, this odd, dystopian world where girls are literally bred their entire lives to be a man's companion and nothing else, seemed ludicrous, unbelievable, and full of extremes. Review 1: It was really chilling and startling, comparing the mentality that I started the book with and the one that I finished it with.
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