![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These two and their somewhat “normal” societies and constraints are contrasted with Janet and Jael. In Jeannine’s world the Great Depression never ended and she believes that the female stereotypes she has been told will bring her happiness. She wants to be taken seriously and respected, not forced to accept the power of men and the classed roles of women. She is a professional struggling in a male-dominated society. There is Joanna, who lives in a world very similar to Earth in the 1970’s. The four women who are the focus of Joanna Russ’ best-known work, The Female Man, are each from an alternative universe dealing with male oppression in decidedly different ways. This is a review of Joanna Russ’ novel The Female Man, first published by Beacon Press in 1975. ![]()
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