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The Female Man
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 Cover of first edition (paperback) |
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| Author | Joanna Russ |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Bantam Books |
| Released | 1975 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 214 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-807-06299-5 |
The Female Man is a feminist science fiction novel by Joanna Russ. It was originally written in 1970 and published in 1975. The book was re-released in 2000. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1975.
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
The Female Man is told from the points of view of four different women, each from a different parallel Earth. The first woman, Joanna, comes from our own world as it was in 1969. Jeannine is a mousy librarian in a repressive, male-dominated society that never experienced the Second World War and is still in the midst of the Great Depression. Janet lives in a world where all the men have died off, and Jael is an assassin with a male sex slave in a world torn apart by a war between the genders.
- Bammer, Angelika. Partial Visions: Feminism and Utopianism in the 1970s. New York and London: Routledge, 1991.
- Barbour, Douglas. "Joanna Russ's the Female Man: An Appreciation." The Sphinx: A Magazine of Literature and Society 4.1 (1981): 65-75.
- Cortiel, Jeanne. "Joanna Russ: The Female Man." A Companion to Science Fiction. Ed. by David Seed. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture; 34. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2005. 500-511. ISBN 1-4051-1218-2
- Delany, Samuel R. "Joanna Russ and D. W. Griffith." PMLA 119 (2004): 500.
- Rosinsky, Natalie M. "A Female Man? The 'Medusan' Humor of Joanna Russ." Extrapolation 23.1 (1982): 31-36.
- The Female Man publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Book review