On Strike against God
Russ, Joanna / Pollak, Alec A lost feminist masterwork by feminist and speculative fiction icon, Joanna Russ, about a young lesbian’s coming-to-consciousness during the social upheaval of the 1970s.
When Esther, a recently divorced professor, has her first lesbian love affair, the fallout brings her everyday miseries into focus and precipitates a personal crisis. She flees her small, upstate New York college town, grapples with gender confusion and the ghosts of therapis...