![]() ![]() ![]() Joanna Russ, a 35-year-old English professor and writer from the reader’s time and reality who could be seen as an alter ego of the book’s author (also an English professor) or maybe her shade or maybe her shadow.Jael, also known as Alice Reasoner, Alice-Jael and Sweet Alice, who is 47 and serves as a secret agent-provocateur-assassin in a war between her nation of women and the opposing nation of men.Janet Evason, an emotionally detached 41-year-old cop from a world populated solely by women.Jeannine Dadier, a timid, hesitant 29-year-old woman living on an Earth where, in 1969, the Depression is still a daily fact.It is a novel filled with bitter humor and spiky insights that focuses on four women, existing in alternate realities, who meet and become companions of a sort: Nearly half a century ago, Joanna Russ published The Female Man, a creative, passionate and prescient science fiction novel, as a commentary on the constrained lives of women in human society. ![]()
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