On Joanna Russ /

A multifaceted look at one of science fiction and feminism's most original voices.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors / Creators:Mendlesohn, Farah.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:English.
Imprint: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2009.
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Online Access:Click here for full text at Project MUSE
Table of Contents:
  • Section 1. Criricism and Community
  • Alyx Among the Genres
  • Russ of Writing Science Fiction, and Reviewing It
  • A History of One's Own: Joanna Russ and the Creation of a Feminist Science Fiction Tradition
  • The Female 'Atlas' of Science Fiction? Russ, feminist and the SF community
  • Learning the 'Prophet Business': The Merrill-Russ Intersection
  • Section 2. Fiction
  • Joanna Russ's The Two of Them in an Age of Third Wave Feminism
  • Assassin or Avenger-Vandal or Vigilante? Anger, Alienation and Escape Strategies in Joanna Russ's The Two of Them
  • Les human beans? Alienation, Humanity and Community in Joabba Russ's On Strike Against God
  • Kittens Who Run With Wolves: Healthy Girl Development in Joanna Russ's Kittatiny
  • Medusa Laughs: Birds, Thieves, and Other Unruly Women
  • Violent Women, Womanly Violence: Joanna Russ's Femmes Fatales
  • The 'Opposed Aesthetic' in Mina Loy and Joanna Russ
  • Joanna Russ and D.W. Griffith
  • Extraordinary People
  • Castaway: Carnival and Sociobiological Satire in We Who Are About To...
  • The Narrative Topology of Resistance in the Fiction of Joanna Russ