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Title	:	The Female Man
Author	:	Joanna Russ
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Beacon Paperback 721
Pages	:	Pages: 214 pages
Published	:	July 20th 1997 by Beacon Press (first published 1975)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Feminism. Classics

The Female Man Paperback | Pages: 214 pages

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It has 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 alternative selves from drastically different realities—meet.

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Original Title:	The Female Man
ISBN:	0807063134 (ISBN13: 9780807063132)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Nebula Award Nominee for Novel (1975), James Tiptree Jr. Award for Retrospective (1995), Tähtivaeltaja Award (1987)

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New addition to the old review:I'd wished to prove myself wrong in less than a year by declaring that I was in love with this book. Sadly, I'm even more indignant. The issue is topical. It isn't that it is outdated nearly 40 years after its publication. The issue is that the same ideas have been depicted in a far more interesting way in fiction since it was written.It was radical at that time - Russ was one of those few female writers writing hard SF good enough to take credit for inspiring

Convoluted. Relatable. I left my smiles and happy laughter at home. Im not a woman; Im a man. Im a man with a womans face. I'm a woman with a mans mind. Everybody says so.Not for the faint of heart, this book makes you work for it. You have to be on your toes to keep up, and suspend logistics at the door. Beyond the mere words lies a greater truth and sadness permeating from reality into the multiverse of imagination.Russ deftly masticates on the implications of being man or woman, the

This book is an angry book. It's a story of four women from very, very different lives. Each woman's name starts with the letter 'J' but they don't know each other until the story begins. As the book explores the lives of these women it's fractured, broken up and disjointed. It's not an easy 'story' but the themes of the book are evident throughout.I don't think that this is a typical narrative. We get some very short, short chapters, and some much longer. We have different narrators, and yet

This book won a Nebula Award, and is considered to be a classic of feminist science fiction.I remembered that long ago I had read a short story collection by Russ (Extra(ordinary) People) and really disliked it. I also read her novel We who Are About To' and was seriously unimpressed. But I didn't think I'd read The Female Man, so I was willing to give it a go due to its classic status and all... Reading it, I realized that I had actually started reading it long ago - but I think I QUIT part way

If I taught SF literature in high school, I'd make this book mandatory reading, knowing my students would hate me for it. it's not an easy book by any means; its structure is complex and obfuscated on purpose, and its subject matter is uncomfortable and necessary. But really, this is why SF exists in the first place.The book has been heralded as the quintessential feminist SF, and it saddens me to know that this automatically reduces its reach. It's true that the book is singularly concerned



I think I wanted to like this much more than I did. It was published in 1975 and seems to have made its rounds as something of a classic feminist novel. It brings up a lot of the usual ideas in feminism, blaming the patriarchy, blaming women who agree with letting themselves be subjugated, and wondering what their role should be if they did cast off the yoke. These are, of course, the same issues still in circulation today.This novel hasn't taken the rounds of a radicalized political feminist