SOURCE: "'Would You Really Rather Die Than Bear My Young?': The Construction of Gender, Race, and Species in Octavia E. Butler's 'Bloodchild,'" in African American Review, Vol. 28, No. 2, Summer, 1994, pp. 259-71.
In the following essay, Helford analyzes Butler's "Bloodchild" and its implications on our conception of gender, race, and species.
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