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The Female Man by Joanna Russ
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The Female Man (1975)

by Joanna Russ

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excellent. Tiptree Retro winner ( )
  SChant | Apr 26, 2013 |
SF novel of feminist dystopias (the current world and a world in which WW2 never occurred) and utopias (an atechnological world without men and a highly-technologized, sexually-segregated world)
  FKarr | Apr 6, 2013 |
I took a writing class from Joanna Russ and didn't know who she was until halfway through the course. I've still never read her books. I'm kind of embarrassed...
  maybedog | Apr 5, 2013 |
Like the other Russ I'm currently devouring, the narrative of this is weird and enthralling, all at once -- who the *hell* is the first-person narrator? Please, someone, tell me. (And why do Whileawayeans do nothing but work...in a sixteen-hour-work-week?) But I love love love the snippets of writing from Whileaway. ( )
  cricketbats | Mar 30, 2013 |
Four women from different worlds. One with no men, one still in the Depression, a similar and a future war between the sexes.

http://freesf.strandedinoz.com/wordpress/2012/04/the-female-man-joanna-russ/ ( )
  bluetyson | Apr 25, 2012 |
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Clute, JudithCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Four women living in parallel worlds, each with a different gender landscape. When they begin to travel to each other's worlds each woman's preconceptions on gender and what it means to be a woman are challenged. Acclaimed as one of the essential works of science fiction and an influence on William Gibson, THE FEMALE MAN takes a look at gender roles in society and remains a work of great power.
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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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"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"--Cover p. [4].… (more)

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