Reading through the novel, obviously it’s hard to pick a “heroine” because the text itself seems so topsy-turvy (silly word).\u00a0 However, if I had to pick one, I’d go with Jael.\u00a0 She is the character who has taken her anti-masculine logic to an instinctive and combative level, and while I don’t think this hyper-oppositional stance is necessarily the best one, it is her efforts which ultimately bring together the other protagonists (spatially and, I think, ideologically), and allow them to understand their own failings or contradictions. And that is\u00a0 the element of her that I find specifically heroic. I think she is heroic especially in the fact that this effort affects some change in super-passive Jeannine,\u00a0 who seemed to be the one “thrown under the bus” and most change resistant throughout the whole narrative, frustrating the reader.<\/p>\n
Additionally, I find her (Jael)\u00a0 heroic because she is the one character who has essentially determined her own path.\u00a0 Certainly, Jeannine hadn’t;\u00a0 Joanne had to sacrifice her own identity to become a “man” in a man’s world; and Janet seems like more of a product of her strange utopia then a utopian ideal.\u00a0 Also, we learn, or are lead to believe, that Jael’s hand in the struggle in her time created the later utopia.\u00a0 As ambivalent as I am on this utopia (and the idea of utopias in general), the idea of self-sacrifice and risk to create an ideal society is certainly heroic.<\/p>\n
[Edit: I just realized that that seemed vaguely like a ‘hurrah’ for genocide (sexocide?)… oops.]<\/p>\n
That’s all that comes to mind, for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Reading through the novel, obviously it’s hard to pick a “heroine” because the text itself seems so topsy-turvy (silly word).\u00a0 However, if I had to pick one, I’d go with Jael.\u00a0 She is the character who has taken her anti-masculine logic to an instinctive and combative level, and while I don’t think this hyper-oppositional stance … Continue reading Who’s the Heroine of Female Man?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}