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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Yes.
Incidentally, I read _The Female Man_ and most of the rest of Russ's ouvre, and respected it. But Joanna sometimes suffered from what I think of as an academic bias, in the sense of starting from a theoretical position, and forcing things to fit her theory now matter what sort of bending and folding might be needed or how ungraceful the result was.
I read a long discussion she was having with other folks of James Tiptree's work in a fanzine, which took on whole new connotations later because at the time, no one knew "James Tiptree" was a pseudonym for Alice Sheldon. At one point in the thread, Joanna said "Of course I'm a lesbian!", but as near as I could tell from the preceding discussion, she wasn't a lesbian because she preferred women as bed partners: she was a lesbian because she didn't think it was possible to have a politically acceptable relationship with a man. Well, it was the '60s, feminism was in first flower, and sex roles were being redefined.
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Dennis
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I read
The Female Man and several other books by her in the late '70's. I wasn't impressed. A rant is rant.
(Note: I am the scanner for Gutenberg's version of
Mizora, 90 years older and still a more readable feminist fiction that
The Female Man.)
I disliked intensely Kate Wilhelm's
Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang.but I considerate a fine piece of fiction. I can't say the same For what I've read of Russ.