Re: Your first SF/F Novel

From: Edward James (E.F.James@READING.AC.UK)
Date: Tue May 20 1997 - 08:20:00 PDT


> First feminist novel (at the ripe old age of 25 or so--in grad school, in
> any case) was Russ' _Female Man_ -- which I found most unpleasant (since it
> upset my whole patriarchal world-view, which I was just beginning to feel my
> way through, and finally manipulate, with some amount of success ;).
>
> Heather

Me too, on all counts; and it was even _more_ devastating for me! I was in
my late thirties, for a start... and for seconds...

Edward James

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