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Demand My Writing: Joanna Russ, Feminism, Science Fiction » Read Now
by Jeanne Cortiel. 250 pgs.

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In this major study of the work of Joanna Russ, Jeanne Cortiel gives a clear introduction to the major feminist issues relevant to Russ’s work and assesses its development. The book will be especially valuable for students of SF and feminist SF, especially in its concern with the function of...
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In this major study of the work of Joanna Russ, Jeanne Cortiel gives a clear introduction to the major feminist issues relevant to Russ’s work and assesses its development. The book will be especially valuable for students of SF and feminist SF, especially in its concern with the function of woman-based intertextuality. Although Cortiel deals principally with Russ’s novels, she also examines her short stories, and the focus on critically neglected texts is a particularly valuable feature of the study. "I recommend this book to any reader interested in Russ’s fiction, or in women’s science fiction generally."--Science Fiction Studies
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Empathic Ways of Reading: Narcissism, Cultural Politics, and Russ's Female Man, in Feminist Studies » Read Now
by Judith Kegan Gardiner. 26 pgs.

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...GARDINER When I recently reread Joanna Russ feminist fantasy, The Female...19 It is I, after all, not Joanna Russ, who has organized the Js of...Joanna hints she may be the...
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Feminist Utopias (Chap. Two "The Kinship Web: Joanna Russ's The Female Man and Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time") » Read Now
by Frances Bartkowski. 171 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...cognitive estrangement"; for Joanna Russ, the realm of "subjunctivity...by and in a patriarchal world. Joanna Russ notes the predominance of pessimism...an essay of 1973 a...
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Dystopian Literature: A Theory and Research Guide ("Joanna Russ: The Female Man (1975)" begins on p. 238) » Read Now
by M. Keith Booker. 412 pgs.

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Dystopian literature is a potent vehicle for criticizing existing social conditions or political systems, and for warning against the potential negative consequences of utopian thought. This reference is a guide to dystopian theory and literature. It discusses the work of key theorists and...
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Dystopian literature is a potent vehicle for criticizing existing social conditions or political systems, and for warning against the potential negative consequences of utopian thought. This reference is a guide to dystopian theory and literature. It discusses the work of key theorists and summarizes several important utopian works to provide a background. The rest of the book summarizes and analyzes numerous dystopian novels, plays, and films.
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Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond (Chap. 5 "Science Fiction's Invisible Female Men: Joanna Russ's 'When It Changed' and James Tiptree's 'The Women Men Don't See'" and Chap. 13 "Ms. Sammler's Planet: Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, and Joanna Russ Rescue the Female Child's Story") » Read Now
by Marleen S. Barr. 231 pgs.

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...Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, and Joanna Russ Rescue the Female Childs Story...Princeton University Press, 1976. Russ, Joanna. "Recent Feminist Utopias." In...feminist...
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I Am the Other: Literary Negotiations of Human Cloning (Chap. 6 "Cloning and Biopower: Joanna Russ and Fay Weldon") » Read Now
by Maria Aline Salgueiro Seabra Ferreira. 308 pgs.

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Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature (Chap. 4 "Eve at the End of the World: Sexuality and the Reversal of Expectations in Novels by Joanna Russ, Angela Carter, and Thomas Berger" and Chap. 12 "The Functions of Sexuality in the Science Fiction of Russ, Piercy, and Le Guin") » Read Now
by Donald Palumbo. 312 pgs.

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...tribes. And Schuylers philosophical evaluation of Joanna Russ The Female Man paints a very different portrait of...Lezlie Shell--and to acknowledge a special debt to...
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Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out: Interviews ("Joanna Russ" begins on p. 287) » Read Now
by Donna Perry. 348 pgs.

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This book contains fifteen in-depth interviews with important contemporary women writers from the United States, England, Ireland, and the Caribbean. The authors, who come from different racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds and sexual orientations, are all committed to telling the stories of...
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This book contains fifteen in-depth interviews with important contemporary women writers from the United States, England, Ireland, and the Caribbean. The authors, who come from different racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds and sexual orientations, are all committed to telling the stories of people, especially women, who have been silenced in the past. By breaking silence, these writers are changing the face of contemporary literature. In direct, provocative conversation, these writers discuss their work and other topics: the influence of family members and their native communities, getting started as writers, writing as women, the role of "literary tradition" in helping or hindering their growth, the responsibility of the writer to the community, the question of writing accessibly versus experimenting, the energizing power of anger, the politics of publishing, and the impact of one's race, ethnicity, class, gender, and/or sexual orientation on getting read, published, and reviewed.
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Significant Contemporary American Feminists: A Biographical Sourcebook ("Joanna Russ (1937-)" begins on p. 257) » Read Now
by Jennifer Scanlon. 361 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

The history of the second wave of feminism in the United States demonstrates the potential for both serious social change and seemingly intractable divisions among women. Race, ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation, and religion have all been dividing influences among women, shaping their...
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The history of the second wave of feminism in the United States demonstrates the potential for both serious social change and seemingly intractable divisions among women. Race, ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation, and religion have all been dividing influences among women, shaping their various perspectives on and relations to the women's movement. Yet collectively, women's efforts--identified as second wave feminism--are seen as having made a difference. This book highlights the lives and work of fifty second wave feminists, women who have served as catalysts in the developing feminist movement. A diverse group--playwrights and politicians, grassroots organizers and scientists, poets and theologians--they provide the reader with compelling stories of individual women's lives, collective feminist struggles, and the possibilities of feminist social change.
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The Play of Irony: Theatricality and Utopian Transformation in Contemporary Women's Speculative Fiction, in Utopian Studies » Read Now
by Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor. 22 pgs.

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...conventions" (93). In the Russ and Atwood texts, the "ordinary...double-consciousness gained by Joanna and by Offred is purposely...Man? The `Medusan Humor of Joanna Russ."...
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Joanna Russ' "How to Suppress Women's Writing" as Student Observation Guide, in Women and Language » Read Now
by M.J. Hardman. 3 pgs.

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...Joanna Russ "How to Suppress Womens Writing" as student...graduate and undergraduate) I have found Joanna Russ How to Suppress Womens Writing excellent...guide lines for...