THE FEMALE MAN
Joanna Russ
£6.99
'Not only a science fiction classic but also a work of immense significance to feminist literature'
The Sunday Times
'Russ is an impeccable stylist, a writer of great power and subtlety'
Washington Post
The Female Man is a surprisingly dark and witty chronicle of what happens when four alternative selves from drastically different realities meet. Joanna's world is very like our own. Jeanine, a dreamer, comes from a place where neither World War II nor its resulting technology have occurred. Janet - the explorer - is from Whileaway, where men have died off, leaving a world without the 'poisonous binary' of gender. Lastly we meet Jael, warrior and assassin, who takes the other three to where the final war between men and women is being waged, her mission: reintegration.
Joanna Russ
has won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Locus Poll Award, the James Tiptree Jr Award and the SF Chronicle Award for her numerous novels and short stories. She was born in 1937 in New York and graduated from Cornell University in 1957. In 1960 she earned a Master of Fine Arts at the Yale School of Drama. She was instrumental in founding the Women's Studies Department at Cornell University and is currently Professor Emiritus English at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she teaches writing.