Joanna Russ. The Female Man. New York: Bantam Books, 1975.
“In 1975 Russ published The Female Man, which must be accounted the best feminist science-fiction novel of all time [. . .] Russ wants to empower women.”
— Thomas M. Disch
A novel of life on the women’s planet Whileaway, in the form of four linked stories in which alternate versions of the protagonist move from servility to liberation.
No. 61.