Joanna Russ
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Joanna Russ

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Joanna Russ

About this book

Experimental, strange, and unabashedly feminist, Joanna Russ's groundbreaking science fiction grew out of a belief that the genre was ideal for expressing radical thought. Her essays and criticism, meanwhile, helped shape the field and still exercise a powerful influence in both SF and feminist literary studies.Award-winning author and critic Gwyneth Jones offers a new appraisal of Russ's work and ideas. After years working in male-dominated SF, Russ emerged in the late 1960s with Alyx, the uber-capable can-do heroine at the heart of Picnic on Paradise and other popular stories and books. Soon, Russ's fearless embrace of gender politics and life as an out lesbian made her a target for male outrage while feminist classics like The Female Man and The Two of Them took SF in innovative new directions. Jones also delves into Russ's longtime work as a critic of figures as diverse as Lovecraft and Cather, her foundational place in feminist fandom, important essays like "Amor Vincit Foeminam," and her career in academia.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Chapter 1. Joanna Russ, Trans-Temp Agent: From the Death of the Universe to “The Second Inquisition”
  7. Chapter 2. Joanna Russ and the New Wave: Experiment and Experience in the World of and Chaos Died
  8. Chapter 3. Year Zero Art: A Lost Generation Finds its Voice in the Female Man
  9. Chapter 4. The Secret Feminist Cabal: SF's Sexual Politics and the Khatru Symposium
  10. Chapter 5. The Spook by Science Fiction's Door: Joanna Russ, Violence, and We Who are about To…
  11. Chapter 6. Joining the Cultural Minority: The Two of them Puts the Female Man on Trial
  12. Chapter 7. Beyond Gender? Extra(Ordinary)People Imagines a World without Feminism
  13. “Postscribble”: An Afterword
  14. Interviews
  15. A Joanna Russ Bibliography
  16. Notes
  17. Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources
  18. Index
  19. About the Author