#the female man

[asteria-of-the-stars]

‘You seem to be enjoying the fruits of my labour that came to me too young’ - Paris Paloma, The Fruits.

Alicent Hightower and Viserys Targaryen, House of the Dragon // Hozier, Swan Upon Leda // Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale // Paris Paloma, Labour // Joanna Russ, The Female Man

[book0ftheday]

The Female Man by Joanna Russ, cover art by Morgan Kane, first printing 1975.

[orangelit]

currently laughing my ass off and also shedding a tear or two reading the female man by joanna russ. it’s so good and so genius, god i love it

[confiturederoses]

The Female Man

- Joanna Russ

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

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[aaronsrpgs]

I live between worlds. Half the time I like doing housework, I care a lot about how I look, I warm up to men and flirt beautifully (I mean I really admire them, though I'd die before I took the initiative; that's men's business), I don't press my point in conversations, and I enjoy cooking. I like to do things for other people, especially male people. I sleep well, wake up on the dot, and don't dream. There's only one thing wrong with me:

I'm frigid.

In my other incarnation I live out such a plethora of conflict that you wouldn't think I'd survive, would you, but I do; I wake up enraged, I go to sleep in numbed despair, face what I know perfectly well is condescension and abstract contempt, get into quarrels, shout, fret about people I don't even know, live as i I were the only woman in the world trying to buck it all, work like a pig, strew my whole apartment with notes, articles, manuscripts, books, get frowsty, don't care, become stridently contentious, sometimes laugh and weep within five minutes together out of pure frustration. It takes me two hours to get to sleep and an hour to wake up. I dream at my desk. I dream all over the place. I'm very badly dressed.

But O how I relish my victuals! And O how I fuck!

—Joanna Russ, The Female Man

[transistoradio]

Joanna Russ, “The Female Man” (Star Books, 1977), with cover art by Peter Andrew Jones.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Amesbury, England: A woman bangs a drum as people greet the sunrise closest to the winter solstice at Stonehenge Photo: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images (Dec 21, 2022)

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“The Winter solstice (you haven't lived if you haven't seen us running around in our skivvies, banging on pots and pans, shouting "Come back, sun! Goddammit, come back! Come back!”

― Joanna Russ, The Female Man

[stoweboyd]

The Female Man, Joanna Russ

I have never read this classic scfi. On my list.

[timothywinters]

In today's edition of 'the cover artist did not know what the book was about'...

English title is The Female Man

[queerographies]

[La female man][Joanna Russ]

La female man di Joanna Russ: un classico della fantascienza femminista che esplora le identità di genere attraverso universi paralleli. Un romanzo provocatorio e ancora attuale, perfetto per chi cerca storie innovative e riflessioni sulla società.

Joanna Russ e La female man: un classico della fantascienza femminista ancora attuale Titolo: La female manScritto da: Joanna RussTitolo originale: The Female ManTradotto da: Oriana PalusciEdito da: MondadoriAnno: 2024Pagine: 264ISBN: 9788804768524 La trama di La female man di Joanna Russ Romanzo di fantascienza e romanzo femminista, dopo cinquant’anni La female man (The Female Man, 1975) non…

[hausmakes]

[orangelit]

WWJD= what would janet (janet evason from the feminist sci-fi book the female man written by joanna russ) do

[hyrum-graphite]

I picked up The Female Man and it sounded so sick and maybe I just have to keep pushing but I feel like im not smart enough for this book LMAO. The narration style is really tripping me up but again im not that far in so I should just keep trying? I really really Want to like it but the liking is slow going

[evilgwrl]

SIMON IS PRACTICALLY FERAL FOR YOU

Wherever you go, this man is next to you, one hand always touching you.

You’re showering? Ok so is he. It’s not his fault you’re pushed up against the glass, ass flushed against him as he pounds into you from behind, hands clawing at your flesh as he grunts.

You’re watching a movie? This man is lying flat on you, groping at your tits before he takes them in his mouth. He has a hard time concentrating and he promises this helps him.

You’re working from home? Let him help you. And by help he means, cock-warm him while you work and every time you complete a task he’ll fuck up into you as a reward!

You’re going to bed. You already know he’s fucking you to sleep, eating your gushing pussy before he’s denting your gummy walls with the outline of his cock, fucking against your sweet spot as you make a mess of the sheets, desperate pussy clenching around him as he fills you up.

“This pussy’s always ready for me, I fuckin’ love you, sweet’art.”

[lackadaisycal-art]

I'm getting so sick of major female characters in historical media being incredibly feisty, outspoken and public defenders of women's rights with little to no realistic repercussions. Yes it feels like pandering, yes it's unrealistic and takes me out of the story, yes the dialogue almost always rings false - but beyond all that I think it does such a disservice to the women who lived during those periods. I'm not embarrassed of the women in history who didn't use every chance they had to Stick It To The Man. I'm not ashamed of women who were resigned to or enjoyed their lot in life. They weren't letting the side down by not having and representing modern gender ideals. It says a lot about how you view average ordinary women if the idea of one of your main characters behaving like one makes them seem lame and uninteresting to you.