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Author:	Joanna Russ
Title:	The Female Man
Publisher:	Bantam
Country:	USA
Date:	Feb 1975
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction, Society
Cat#:	Q8765
Total Editions:	2
Rating:	9.0 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
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ppint. 26th Aug 2024		thank-you jimess.



JimEss SUBS 22nd May 2024		Covers added.



ppint. 2nd Apr 2023		bantam doubleday dell bantam books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by morgan kane (signed, uncredited) cover price $1.25 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ''a frederik pohl selection'' - front cover large banner in chief in bright green, in fine line cartouche



ppint. 2nd Apr 2023		Review ''the whileaway novel'': intended to be an sf adventure novel sequel to the author's somewhat controversial (within sf fandom at the time) ''when it changed'' (''again, dangerous visions'' ed. harlan ellison (1972), q.v.), examining the same and similar social questions of sexual social (in)equality and potential/future developments, and their effects, through a work of fiction in considerably greater depth - - which it is - - it turned slowly in her hands as she wrote it into a scream of frustration and even rage at the inability of merkin science fiction fans - allegedly and even actually intelligent men (mostly men) - to even consider that these things might be different; in effect, that they, themselves might be even a bit sexist - - and frederik pohl, who was the bantam books sf editor at the time, bought and published it. - screams of outrage from much - most? - of merkin fandom could be heard the other side of the atlantic, even in ''little ol' lancaster''. . .° ° - and prob'ly reached the auntie podes, too (- no?) - yes, technically, this novel is a failure: as the author of the intended sf adventure novel, joanna russ lost her focus and it turns by its end into a personal criticism of the overwhelmingly sexist nature of the (merkin) world of written sf, of sf fandom, and of publishing - and, ultimately, of merkin society as a whole then, now - and in the sciencefictional futures thus far imagined in the works of then almost entirely male, overwhelmingly mostly white writers of sf. - it is a classic. (this review is from another edition of this book) 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



ppint. 2nd Apr 2023		w. h. allen & co./ howard & wyndham wyndham books star books imprint p/b first, first uk edition cover art by peter andrew jones (signed paj(dated 19)75, uncredited) cover price 85p, 90c malta, $3.10 australia, $2.60 new zealand 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Joanna Russ - The Female Man - Star - Paperback - UK - 0352397306 (1977)