Alice B. Sheldon (Chicago, 1915 - McLean, 1987) signed her books with the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr.: she chose a generic name like James and took the surname Tiptree from a jam jar. Women than men They don't see It is a collection of twelve stories written between 1962 and 1973 that functions as a perfect trap: it seems like adventure science fiction, but in reality, it is a highly precise piece of ideological dissection. Sheldon doesn't imagine distant futures to escape the present, but rather uses them to make it intolerably visible, anticipating current debates on feminism, sex, and environmentalism.