![]() ![]() This ebook includes the Nebula Award–winning bonus short story "When It Changed," set in the world of The Female Man. leavened by wit and humor" ( The New York Times), Russ both employs and upends genre conventions to deliver a wickedly satiric and exhilarating version of when worlds collide and women get woke. ![]() When the four women begin traveling to one another's worlds, their preconceptions on gender and identity are forever challenged. 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. Two are temporally set in the time of the writing, although one is a world where the Depression never ended, while the other is contemporary. 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 Jael-all living in parallel worlds-meet. Joanna Russ' The Female Man is a tale of four women with a connection to each other, but existing in four very different universes. ![]() Four alternate selves from radically different realities come together in this "dazzling" and "trailblazing work" ( The Washington Post). The American feminist writer Joanna Russ (1937-2011) finds her way to claim women’s position not only in society but also in ‘life’ in the feminist utopian genre. ![]()
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