num_pages: 214
description: 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 Jael is a warrior with steel teeth and catlike retractable claws, from an earth with separate - and warring - female and male societies. When these four women meet, the results are startling, outrageous and subversive.
language: English
title: The Female Man
titlecomplete: The Female Man
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Gender, Speculative Fiction, LGBT, Science Fiction Fantasy, Feminism, Classics, Fantasy, Dystopia
ratings_count: 7383
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Nebula Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: James Tiptree Jr. Award
category: Retrospective, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Tähtivaeltaja Award
publisher: Bantam