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The Female Man

Joanna Russ

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English
Beacon Press
01 September 2018
Series: Bluestreak
Living in an altered past that never saw the end of the Great Depression, Jeannine, a librarian, is waiting to be married. Joanna lives in a different version of reality- she's a 1970s feminist trying to succeed in a man's world. Janet is from Whileaway, a utopian earth where only women exist. And Jael is a warrior with steel teeth and catlike retractable claws, from an earth with separate-and warring-female and male societies. When these four women meet, the results are startling, outrageous, and subversive.
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Imprint:   Beacon Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   11
Dimensions:   Height: 202mm,  Width: 136mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   193g
ISBN:   9780807062999
ISBN 10:   0807062995
Series:   Bluestreak
Pages:   224
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Nebula and Hugo Award winner Joanna Russ is the author of The Adventures of Alyx, Extra(Ordinary) People, and To Write Like a Woman, among many other books.

Reviews for The Female Man

As hard and mean and fine as Flannery O'Connor. . . . I wish that everyone would read Joanna Russ' books. -Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina Joanna Russ offers a gallery of some of the most interesting female protagonists in current fiction, women who are rarely victims and sometimes even victors, but always engaged sharply and perceptively with their fate. -Marge Piercy A stunning book, a work to be read with great respect. It's also screamingly funny. -Elizabeth Lynn, San Francisco Review of Books A work of frightening power, but it is also a work of great fictional subtlety. . . . It should appeal to all intelligent people who look for exciting ideation, crackling dialogue, provocative fictional games-playing in their reading. -Douglas Barbour, Toronto Star


  • Winner of Spectrum Awards (Hall of Fame) 2002

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