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The Female Man
Published 1975 by Bantam Books · 214 pages
Nebula · 1976
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3 award entries · 3 books · 0 wins · 1969–1976
Synopsis
Four women from parallel versions of Earth are brought together across dimensions, each shaped by radically different gender politics. From a world where the Great Depression never ended, to an all-female utopia, to a society locked in literal gender war, the novel fiercely interrogates the social construction of womanhood and the possibilities of feminist liberation.
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