Com partenogênese, quem precisa de homens?

Sexo e o Alto Comando (1970) de John Boyd

Contracapa:

A Dra. Henrietta Carey, líder dos Fems, foi a primeira candidata a presidente e a aperfeiçoadora do VITA-LERP, um creme biológico para a pele projetado para acabar com homens supérfluos. Soletrou guerra entre os sexos

A partir de uma revisão da Goodreads:

It's contemporary 1970s America. Captain Ben Hansen of the United States Navy is just returning home from an eighteen-month tour of duty off Antarctica. While he's been away, a scientist by the name of Dr. Henrietta Carey has perfected an orgasm-inducing parthenogenesis drug marketed under the name "Vita-Lerp" and colloquially called a "V-bomb." As a result, America's women are flocking to the FEM—Freedom, Equality, and Motherhood—party to support Carey as a presidential candidate and literally eliminate men as superfluous quantities. Hansen falls in with several high-ranking military officers and key cabinet members to plot how to take the United States back from these crazy manslaughtering women.

A pergunta contém o que eu acho que é a resposta - Quem precisa de homens? por Edmund Cooper

Sinopse de Goodreads

Rura Alexandra, Madam Exterminator, had recently graduated into a 25th century world where men had become biologically less important, where women could reproduce as they wished by cloning and parthenogenesis.

Her task was simple - in theory, if not in practice; to wipe out the last few thousand men who had taken refuge in the Highlands of Scotland.

But an ambush near Loch Lomond led to rape, and the killing of her fellow-exterminators. And Diarmid MacDiarmid, the last remaining rebel chieftan proved too much of a fascination...