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by: Joanna Russ
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780807062999
ISBN: 0807062995
Label: Beacon Press
Manufacturer: Beacon Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: March 17, 2000
Publisher: Beacon Press
Sales Rank: 139691
Studio: Beacon Press
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It's influenced William Gibson and been listed as one of the ten essential works of science fiction. Most importantly, Joanna Russ's THE FEMALE MAN is a suspenseful, surprising and darkly witty chronicle of what happens when Jeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jael--four alternate selves from drastically different realities--meet.
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Rating:  - The Female Man
The Women's movement has made great strides in our society. Or has it?
"The Female Man" though written years ago, is still a very valid illustration of sexism in our society. It creates a new way to view ourselves. Most men can even understand it's points. It's humor and it's subtle inuendo make for great reading, too.
Joanna Russ speaks for all strong Women, who are willing to confront their situations, with a can do attitude.
Sexism is alive and well in ... Read More
Rating:  - Her solution is a problem
This book is a nice departure from the mostly male-dominated science fiction genre. Instead of concentrating on technical details (like describing intricate new technologies, inventing
elaborate languages, etc.) the author seems to have decided to add whatever fictional technology she finds convenient for conveying her message without feeling the need to elaborate. Not that geekiness is inherently bad, but it can definitely feel alienating to some people. Actually, the biggest departure from ... Read More
Rating: - A complex, involving sci-fi novel about alternate realities
Jeannine, anxiously awaiting marriage to her boyfriend, is a librarian on an Earth that never saw an end to The Great Depression. Joanna is a 1970s feminist trying to make it in a man's world by being just like a man. Janet Evason, a traveler from Whileaway which has not been home to a man in over 800 years, suddenly appears on a Broadway sidewalk. The three women are drawn to one another, presumably to learn and to share information. Things take a different track when they meet Jael Reasoner from ... Read More
Rating:  - Has aged very poorly
This rambling bore of a book was one of 18 nominated for a Nebula award in 1975, but it certainly hasn't aged well. Russ ends the book "Do not complain when at last you become quaint and old-fashioned...Rejoice little book! For on that day , we will be free!" This pretentious closing gives The Female Man more self-credit than it deserves. The author thoughtfully provided some disjointed text in Part 7, Section III that sums up my feelings about the book: "maunderings of antiquated feminism...this shapeless ... Read More
Rating: - What do the women in Whileaway do with their hair? �
... They chop it off with clamshells. There was a time when speculative-fiction (or science-fiction, pick your term) was filled with writers who experimented and challenged the status quo. These writers, people like Harlan Ellison, Samuel Delaney, and Joanna Russ, are challenging, talented, and even funny when they want to be. If you are open minded, try reading them and their peers.
That background out of the way, of all the books in the speculative fiction genre I've read, this is my favorite. First ... Read More
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