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"When It Changed"
by Joanna Russ

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Publishing Data

First published in Again, Dangerous Visions, 1972
Winner of the Nebula for Best Short Story
Collected in Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts, ed. Heather Masri
Provided the basis for the novel The Female Man (1975)

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For thirty generations after a plague killed all the men, the women of the planet Whileaway have been building their lives and civilization. Then men arrive from Earth.
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Describe life on Whileaway.
What happeneded to destroy male human life on Whileaway?
When the men arrive, what assumptions do they make? Do you share those assumptions?
How do the women react? In what ways do the women fall into gender roles when the men arrive? In what ways do they not?
What does Janet fear will happen now that men have come to Whileaway? Is she right?
What is Russ saying here about the the differences between men and women?
 
 
 
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