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Chargement... On Strike Against God (1980)par Joanna Russ
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. In "On Strike Against God", Esther begins to accept her feelings towards other women, focusing on the ups and downs of taking those first steps into a new realm of dating. When she meets Jean, Esther can barely contain herself, quietly explaining to Jean her barely contained feelings, and they begin a hesitant relationship, relying on the safety provided behind closed doors away from the rest of the world. But Jean abruptly calls it off and disappears. Her family and friends are of little help, leaving Esther to struggle with the aftermath. Up to this point, I was enjoying Esther's story, in spite of the constant parenthetical asides. Then it took an odd twist involving Jean teaching Esther how to shoot a gun so she can kill men. Huh? Yeah, that just kinda popped up out of nowhere. I re-read that transition two or three times and flipped back through the preceding pages to make sure I hadn't missed some vital information. the abrupt twist change the entire tone of the story and made it feel more like outdated propaganda. So I'm a little disappointed with the how the story turned out. Then again, I'm not sure that I was the target audience. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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A radical novel of love, gender, and being seen for who you are from the groundbreaking author of The Female Man. Meet Esther, an English professor. Since her divorce more than a decade ago, she has lived in a kind of limbo--a sexless, cold, and self-contained existence. Though surrounded by so-called intellectuals, she is still boxed into life according to her gender, expected to defer to her male colleagues and mocked for her feminist beliefs. But when Esther's feelings for her friend Jean take a turn from the platonic to the passionate, a new world opens up before her. Lost in a tumult of lust and happiness, she is unprepared for the patriarchal voices in her own head that threaten to derail her newfound freedom. Societal chaos would ensue if she were to follow her heart. It would open the floodgates to boys wearing pink! And girls, blue! How would the world survive? In On Strike Against God, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Joanna Russ turns from science fiction to 1970s small-town life, where desire simmers in the shadows, rebellion is taking root, and humor becomes a weapon against the status quo. "An engrossing, darkly funny, and genre-defying classic. Russ's voice is raw and unfiltered here, delivering the same ironic humor, wry wit, and devastating insight into messy human conceptions of gender and sexuality that permeate her science fiction work. Perfect for fans of Kelly Link and Carmen Maria Machado." --Kameron Hurley, author of The Light Brigade "A master of putting the truth in fiction, from her SF to her realist work, and On Strike Against God is filled to the brim with honesty." --Tor.com Praise for Joanna Russ "She was brilliant in a way that couldn't be denied. . . . She was here to imagine, to invent wildly, and to undo the process, as one of her heroines puts it, of 'learning to despise one's self.'" --The New Yorker Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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In other words, I think about half the people who find a copy of this possibly-out-of-print novel, and give it a go, will find themselves reading along with their heads nodding sagely, and they will be thinking: "Joanna Russ, I know EXACTLY what you're talking about."
And then, after I learn that Russ was booed offstage at science fiction conferences in her day for being so recklessly and indelicately anti-male, I think: well, maybe "progress" is real, because Russ isn't saying anything here that isn't obvious to just about any female living today, and no one would boo her offstage for saying it these days.
But then, I remind myself I'm in the middle of writing a novel in which all men are infected by an extraterrestrial organism that turns them all into a vast algal bloom, and my last novel wasn't so kind to men, either, so you can take my views on men, and common sense, with a grain of salt or two. ( )