The Female Man

New York: Bantam, 1975. First edition. First edition. Signed by Joanna Russ on the title page, dated 11/16/96. [vi], 214, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Near Fine with light shelf rubbing, uncreased spine. A paperback original, very rare signed.A major feminist sci-fi novel, recently chosen by The Library of America for reprinting; they call it "a multivoiced, multidimensional voyage that challenges readers' sense of gender and reality-introduces four remarkable women: Jeannine, a librarian from an alternate-reality New York in which the Great Depression never ended; Joanna, a 1970s activist who in some ways resembles the author; Janet, from the (truncated) utopian, all-female future planet While away; and Jael, a black-clad, steel-fanged warrior from embattled Womanland, who has brought the other three together to enlist them in a liberatory war against patriarchy in every dimension.". (Inventory #: 140945670)