Other Half of the man

Other Half of the man is a novel of Science-fiction the United States of America, written by Joanna Russ and published in 1975. The original title, The Female Man , seems betrayed by the French translation.

Synopsis

Lointemps (" Whileaway") is a version of the Earth in a future where all the men disappeared because of a mysterious disease. Only the women survived, and rebuilt civilization. One of it, Janet Evason, voyage in the past and meets women in the the United States of America of the years 1950-1960. The novel depicts a Utopie Féministe and lesbian.

Topics

Described companies

  • Lointemps (" Whileaway") : in a future distance, after Old of gold, the plague reached and keep silent all the men. After the Catastrophe, one invents the fusion of the ovaries like means of reproduction. The disappeared animal species are reintroduced thanks to the genetics, and of the land colonies are established on Mars and Ganymède.
  • a uchronic representation of the Earth of the Years 1960.
  • Manland: country entirely populated men. They have as slaves of other men " semi-transformés".

Characters

  • Janet Evason : girl of Eva and Alicia, mother of Yuriko Janetson, wife of Vittoria. Lointemporaine.
  • Jeannine Dadier : librarian in 1969.
  • Dunyasha Bernadetteson: philosopher of Lointemps, author of concise aphorisms.
  • Joanna: an imaginary figure of the author.
  • Laura Pink Wilding: coed in 1969.
  • Alice-Jael Reasoner: employee at the Office of Compared Ethnology. Travel in Manland.

Publications

External bond

  • Presentation of the novel

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