The Female Man (Beacon Paperback, 721)
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ISBN: 0807062995 / Publisher: Beacon Press, January 1987
The lives of Joanna and Jeannine interact with the world of Janet Evason after the female man from a planet of the future arrives in New York City
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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.
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