The Female Man by Joanna Russ

THE FEMALE MAN JOANNA RUSSLiving in an altered past that never saw the end of the Great Depression, Jeannine, a librarian, is waiting to be married. Joanna, a 1970s feminist, is trying to succeed in a man's world. Janet is from Whileaway, a utopian earth where only women exist. And Jael is from an earth in the not-so-distant future, with separate-and warring- female and male societies. When these four women meet, the results are startling, outrageous, and subversive."Russ is the strongest, and wittiest, feminist voice in science fiction today. The Female Man is a work of frightening power, but it is also a work of great fictional subtlety.... The Female Man will not appeal to readers whose minds are in stasis; it should appeal to all intelli- gent people who look for exciting ideation, crackling dialogue, pro- vocative fictional games-playing in their reading."-Toronto-Star"Joanna Russ offers a gallery of some of the most interesting female protagonists in current fiction, women who ar