Dorothy Allison, Salon
[The Female Man] is as hard and mean and fine as Flannery O'Connor.
Marge Piercy, American Poetry Review
"Joanna Russ offers a gallery of some of the most interesting female protagonists in current fiction...
Elizabeth Lynn, San Francisco Review of Books
A stunning book, a work to be read with great respect. It's also screamingly funny.
Douglas Barbour, Toronto Star
A work of frightening power, but it is also a work of great fictional subtlety.
Book Description
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.
About the Author
Nebula and Hugo Award winner Joanna Russ is the author of The Adventures of Alyx, Extra(Ordinary) People, To Write Like a Woman, and What Are We Fighting For, among many other books. She lives in Seattle.
The Female Man FROM THE PUBLISHER
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.
FROM THE CRITICS
Gale Research
The Female Man is perhaps the novel in which Russ's feminist ideas are most completely expressed. The book's four heroines--each from a different time and place--represent different possibilities for women in society. "Each of these fictional realities," writes Barbara Garland in theDictionary of Literary Biography, "makes a statement about the self versus society and about male versus female: and each has a distinctive style." In their book Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision, Robert Scholes and Eric S. Rabkin find that in The Female Man, Russ "has used the visionary potential of science fiction to convey the contrast between life as it is presently lived by many women and life as it might be. Among other things, Russ has demonstrated the unique potential of science fiction for embodying radically different life styles, which can hardly be conveyed in fiction bound by the customs of present literature."
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