All You Zombies

When Jane completes the sex reassignment procedures, she adjusts quickly to the new orientation but struggles with the search for a job. What causes this situation? In your explanation, give reference to Jane’s job skills and how they interact with the cultural expectations of the era.

The author wrote the story in 1959. Is it still relevant to gender identity issues of today, or are its attitudes outmoded? Defend your viewpoint.

Each event in “All You Zombies—” follows one of the other events in what appears to be an endless loop. Is there no first event? Pick a plot element—Jane’s birth, her placement in an orphanage, her seduction, her return as a man to commit the seduction, or his recruitment into the Temporal Bureau—and explain why it is or isn’t a possible beginning of the loop. 

Why does the Unmarried Mother forgive himself for seducing Jane? 

There are arguments both for and against sex work as legitimate and respectable. Take either the affirmative or the negative on this issue and argue for your side; use the story’s “W.E.N.C.H.E.S.” sub-plot as an example within your argument.