Russ' book is still relevant because not everything has changed. In particular, the chapters about how women writers were recieved before it was known that they were women, are really interesting. But its also a genre plea because many of the quotes and stories come from writers in the Sci-Fi and...
Living in an altered past that never saw the end of the Great Depression, Jeannine, a librarian, is waiting to be married. Joanna lives in a different version of reality: she's a 1970s feminist trying to succeed in a man's world. Janet is from Whileaway, a utopian earth where only women exist. And J...
Now is not the 16th or 17th century, but the 21st. Feminism has deep scientific, political, sociological, economical and psychological roots. It could very hardly have happened in the beginning of the medieval times or in the Renaissance period. In those feudal times people worked minimum 12 hours...
This is one of those odd tales - female keeping males as pleasure pet; they kept them docile and biddable by lobotomizing them and controlling them by implants connected to a computer. O.OWiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Female_Man
Published thirty years ago but still fresh and (sadly) relevant. The brilliant cover doubles as a handy crib sheet, but I wish I had gotten around to putting in an interlibrary loan request sooner.
This is an at best mediocre book with a dreadful introduction. Delaney mentions the Cold Equations and then quotes a reviewer who clearly has not read the story.
Some real classics here, particularly Joanna Russ's "When It Changed." Pamela Sargent's intro gives a good overview of what was going on in SF at the time (1970s), but can be skipped w/o any loss of appreciation of the contents. The first story, "Screwtop", was probably my favorite of the collecti...
Published in 1975, Russ's classic about 4 female characters meeting in time is still germane, still witty, still rousing in this age of mansplaining and the War on Women.
Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is to be successful. Because your next thing has to surpass your first success. Just ask the guy who came up with the idea of pet rocks.Ellison probably knows what I am talking about. Dangerous Vision was a raging success. It is still the definitive sci-fi a...
The strongest essays are those discussing the battle of the sexes in SF, and the recent feminist utopias. The battle of the sexes essay made me particularly glad I had never read the original stories Russ was discussing.At the same time, the essay which is going to stand out most for me is Russ' di...
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