β Scribed by Joanna Russ
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Four alternate selves from radically different realities come together in this "dazzling" and "trailblazing work" (The Washington Post).
Widely acknowledged as Joanna Russ's masterpiece, The Female Man is the suspenseful, surprising, darkly witty, and boldly subversive chronicle of what happens when Jeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jaelβall living in parallel worldsβmeet. Librarian Jeannine is waiting for marriage in a past where the Depression never ended, Janet lives on a utopian Earth with an all-female population, Joanna is a feminist in the 1970s, and Jael is a warrior with claws and teeth on an Earth where male and female societies are at war with each other. When the four women begin traveling to one another's worlds, their preconceptions on gender and identity are forever challenged.
With "palpable anger . . . leavened by wit and humor" (The New York Times), Russ both employs and upends genre conventions to...
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