false <![CDATA[The Female Man]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179359054m/908311.jpg 908311 11 It's influenced William Gibson and been listed as one of the ten essential works of science fiction. Most importantly, Joanna Russ's THE FEMALE MAN is a suspenseful, surprising and darkly witty chronicle of what happens when Jeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jael--four alternate selves from drastically different realities--meet. 893452 book 1975 The Female Man total:283|5:60|4:96|3:72|2:31|1:24| 283 986 508 46 5 3 false false Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 01 10:26:44 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 04 21:49:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Oct 21 21:39:24 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 21:42:20 -0700 2007 Is it written entirely in blood?
No, some of it is written in tears.
Are the blood and tears all mine?
Yes, they have been in the past. But the future is a different matter. As the bear swore in Pogo after having endured a pot shoved on her head, being ...more...]]> 1 2 false false Fri Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 31 09:37:14 -0800 2007 Fri Mar 14 19:40:05 -0700 2008
This book had promise - and about 10% of it is good science fiction. The other 90% is unnecessary polemic, thankfully out-of-date (at least I hope so!) I don't object to her feminism so much to the way she doesn't go anywhere with it. "The Left Hand of Darkness" did a mu...more...]]> 3 3 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 16 15:18:11 -0800 2007 Wed Apr 29 00:35:52 -0700 2009
The experim...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jun 06 06:12:50 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 06 06:36:11 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 08:14:33 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 08:31:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Mon May 18 12:46:18 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 12:53:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 30 15:22:28 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 13:50:24 -0700 2008
i would have liked more utopia ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Sun Jan 27 22:23:37 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 22:23:37 -0800 2008
I bought this after giving up on Stanislaw Lem's The Cyberiad and immediately got into it but then stalled and required a month to finish it. Can only say i didn't experience it as Russ might've hoped i would--more likely, i experienc...more...]]> 1 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Mon Feb 16 18:57:25 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 19:05:48 -0800 2009 1
I do, however, agree that...
Killing off the men is not th...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 10:44:32 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 10:53:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 14 19:54:18 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 19:59:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Sat May 16 12:27:20 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 12:37:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Apr 04 05:20:53 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 05:22:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 18:34:16 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 19:30:58 -0700 2008 The Female Man since it's canonized within the marginal genre of feminist science fiction. While I found the scifi side of the book the most interesting, such as Whileaway, the utopian female society, and the interactions between characters from probability/parallel univerises, the ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 19 07:19:54 -0800 2007 Sat Oct 11 07:35:00 -0700 2008
I agree with most of the author's complaints about how suffocatingly sexist the world can...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Aug 02 15:55:28 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 18 07:04:48 -0800 2009
Some of the examples of misogynist behaviour are pure vintage but that doesn't mean you shouldn't read abou...more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun May 18 19:37:35 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 08 20:02:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Jun 08 11:26:53 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 08 11:42:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 09:04:59 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 09:06:28 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=908311