Like all females, her 6-year-old daughter Sonia also wears a counter. More immediately she worries about her family. She partly blames herself, recalling that she had often been “too busy” to vote, and that when she was a student and her best friend Jackie was campaigning on women’s issues, she stayed home studying. Now Jean must be a stay-at-home wife without access to computers or books or even the mail. She had been within a hair’s breadth of developing a serum to reverse Wernicke’s aphasia - a trauma-induced condition whose sufferers speak only random words in nonsensical order. Jean McClellan, previously a researcher in neurolinguistics. Women who campaign against this situation or commit other offenses against the gender-based laws become slave laborers in sparsely populated states.Īpart from this enforced work, women have lost their jobs. Any more and a wrist strap fitted with a counter zaps its wearer with an electric shock - relatively mild for first-time infractions, but intense enough to cause serious injury later on. American women are the victims in Christina Dalcher’s “Vox.” They are allowed to utter no more than 100 words a day.
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