mariocomputer 's review for:

The Female Man by Joanna Russ

4.0

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Russ is burning with white-hot feminist rage in this book, which is mostly great. It feels so of its time (1975) - the bad old days, when being a feminist was fighting a war, even more so than it is today. In parts near the end it gets weird and gender-essentialist and transphobic, and that's a problem. But I am mostly glad this book exists. It's very unconventional, makes a lot of really good points, and is unafraid of being radical.