Brimate's review
The Female Man
by Joanna Russ
Brimate's review
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
Brimate's review
rating:
bookshelves:
feminism,
utopia-dystopia-other-world
recommended for: feminists, postmodernists, experimental-narrative aficionados
It's apparently a feminist sci-fi classic, but i didn't get it. it used experimental narrative form, apparently, which is interested but i had a hard time following it. the form was interesting because it was something new to me... it seemed postmodern.
i would have liked more utopia and possibility-travel. but i did appreciate the parts that were honest rants about the fucked up patriarchy that is western society and the character's/author's experience as a woman living in said society.
the book got slightly easier and more exciting towards the end, but i still don't know what the book was all about, other than a reminder that sexism exists and someday it won't anymore. it was probably more powerful when it was written, in the 70s, when women in american society were more restricted than now, but certainly not that much has changed and the book's messages remain important. i guess what i can take away from it is that i need to keep fighting patriarchy, checking myself ...more
i would have liked more utopia and possibility-travel. but i did appreciate the parts that were honest rants about the fucked up patriarchy that is western society and the character's/author's experience as a woman living in said society.
the book got slightly easier and more exciting towards the end, but i still don't know what the book was all about, other than a reminder that sexism exists and someday it won't anymore. it was probably more powerful when it was written, in the 70s, when women in american society were more restricted than now, but certainly not that much has changed and the book's messages remain important. i guess what i can take away from it is that i need to keep fighting patriarchy, checking myself ...more
