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The Female Man

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    In science fiction: Sex and gender

    Joanna Russ’s much-praised The Female Man (1975) suggests through its title that “femininity” is a weird condition forced on one by oppressors. Even Russ’s feminist classic paled by comparison to Margaret Atwood’s evocative dystopian misogyny in The Handmaid’s Tale (1985; film 1990). Drawn from dark contemporary trends, the…

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