Bluestreak: The Female Man (Series #11) (Paperback)

from StigE

This is considered a classic by many and I really wanted to enjoy it. I expected it, like a lot of old sci-fi, to not be an easy read. I hoped it would challenge me the same way Steinem, hooks, Leckie, Hurley, LeGuin and others have challenged me. I hated it. The style this is written in makes it...

from xiaomarlo

Russ is burning with white-hot feminist rage in this book, which is mostly great. It feels so of its time (1975) - the bad old days, when being a feminist was fighting a war, even more so than it is today. In parts near the end it gets weird and gender-essentialist and transphobic, and that's a p...

from TadAD

For my part, this is a book that deserves its place in the canon of science fiction, feminist or otherwise. Without denying that some of it comes across as a bit dated, there's enough that isn't to make this a thought-provoking book today, and a humorous and engaging one at that. Russ uses the de...

from xiaomarlo

Russ is burning with white-hot feminist rage in this book, which is mostly great. It feels so of its time (1975) - the bad old days, when being a feminist was fighting a war, even more so than it is today. In parts near the end it gets weird and gender-essentialist and transphobic, and that's a p...

from Citizenjoyce

How I wish this book were more dated than it is. Russ shows a time traveler coming back to an America where the depression just kept going. She shows how women and men are trained for their roles, men in charge women cajoling, appeasing and appealing to their protective and sexual nature, men tak...