The Female Man was hardly the first feminist science fiction novel— my college professor Anne Mellor has argued, in an influential essay, that Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, published 150 years before Joanna Russ's book, should be read as a radical critique of gender roles. And many other sci-fi writers broke out of the stereotyped male and female characte…
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