The Female Man de Joanna Russ: reivindicando el feminismo y la sexualidad en las comunidades utópicas

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Isabel Morales Jareño

Abstract

The American feminist writer Joanna Russ (1937-2011) finds her way to claim women’s
position not only in society but also in ‘life’ in the feminist utopian genre. It is therefore
our aim to delve into the analysis of the author’s hallmark, The Female Man (1975), as a
feminist science-fictional novel of the 1970s and in particular discern to what extent
utopia and dystopia are at stake, and how gender identity plays its role in only-women
communities. In this sense, Russ wittily claims women’s place in US society by an apparent
praise of the ‘hero male’ and its superiority in front of the women and dealing with sexual
ambiguities, ‘female man, male woman’. Finally, mentioning how, according to her theory
of ‘the rescue of the female girl’, she affords an alternative to young women education out
of the frame of the overprotective and controlling patriarchy allowing the adolescent girl
to move into a full and free opening to adulthood.

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The Female Man de Joanna Russ: reivindicando el feminismo y la sexualidad en las comunidades utópicas. (2015). VERBEIA. Revista De Estudios Filológicos. Journal of English and Spanish Studies, 1, 235-250. https://doi.org/10.57087/Verbeia.2015.4148