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The Female Man - (Bluestreak) by Joanna Russ (Paperback)

The Female Man - (Bluestreak) by  Joanna Russ (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Originally published by Bantam Books, Inc., in 1975"--T.p. verso.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Living in an altered past that never saw the end of the Great Depression, Jeannine, a librarian, is waiting to be married. Joanna lives in a different version of reality: she's a 1970s feminist trying to succeed in a man's world. Janet is from Whileaway, a utopian earth where only women exist. And Jael is a warrior with steel teeth and catlike retractable claws, from an earth with separate-and warring-female and male societies. When these four women meet, the results are startling, outrageous, and subversive.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>As hard and mean and fine as Flannery O'Connor. . . . I wish that everyone would read Joanna Russ' books. -Dorothy Allison, author of <i>Bastard Out of Carolina </i> <p/>Joanna Russ offers a gallery of some of the most interesting female protagonists in current fiction, women who are rarely victims and sometimes even victors, but always engaged sharply and perceptively with their fate. -Marge Piercy <p/>A stunning book, a work to be read with great respect. It's also screamingly funny. -Elizabeth Lynn, <i>San Francisco Review of Books </i> <p/>A work of frightening power, but it is also a work of great fictional subtlety. . . . It should appeal to all intelligent people who look for exciting ideation, crackling dialogue, provocative fictional games-playing in their reading. -Douglas Barbour, <i>Toronto Star </i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Nebula and Hugo Award winner Joanna Russ is the author of <i>The Adventures of Alyx, Extra(Ordinary) People, </i> and <i>To Write Like a Woman, </i> among many other books.

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