Scholarship and criticism on Joanna Russ

Notice

This is not necessarily a "complete" bibliography of scholarship on this author. Rather, it is a selective bibliography of feminist SF scholarship, or scholarship of particular interest to feminist SF scholars.

Interviews with Russ

• "Reflections on Science Fiction: An Interview with Joanna Russ." Quest, v. 2, no. 1 (Summer 1975): pp. 40-49.

Entries in Reference Books

Barbara Garland.

• "Joanna Russ." Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 8, Twentieth Century American Science Fiction Writers, edited by David Cowart and Thomas L. Wymer. Detroit: Gale Research, 1981. Part 2 (M-Z), pp. 88-93.

Reviews

Barbara Ehrenreich.

• "Book Review: Magic mommas, trembling sisters, puritans and perverts: feminist essays." [by Joanna Russ] The New York Times Book Review v. 90 (Sept. 29, 1985), p. 50.

Karen Joy Fowler.

• "Collected Provocations." (Review of To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction by Joanna Russ.) Women's Review of Books, v. 13, no. 5 (February 1996), pp. 12-13.

Kristine Otteson Garrigan.

• "Book Review: How to Suppress Women's Writing." Modern Fiction Studies v. 30 (Summer 1984): pp. 373-376.

Dissertations

Margo Axsom.

• Border Crossings: The Emergence of Feminist Science Fiction as a Genre. Dissertation.

Chapter 3: Frankenstein Evolves - available online at http://www.sonoma.edu/ar/ar/Staff/AxsomDissertation.html

Discussion of Angel Island by Inez Haynes Gilmore and The Female Man by Joanna Russ.

Julie Linden.

• "From Woman to Human: A Radical Feminist Reading of Joanna Russ's The Female Man and Extra(Ordinary) People." Master's Thesis, University of Connecticut, 1995.

Articles

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Susan Ayres.

• "The 'Straight Mind' in Russ's The Female Man." Science-Fiction Studies Volume 22, Part 1, Number 65 (March 1995): pages 22 - 34.

Douglas Barbour.

• "Joanna Russ's The Female Man: An Appreciation" in The Sphinx: A Magazine of Literature and Society v. 4 no. 1 (1981): pp. 65-75.

Marleen Barr;

• "Science Fiction's Invisible Female Man: Feminism, Formula, Word and World in 'When It Changed' and 'The Women Men Don't See'", in Luk de Vos, editor, Just the Other Day: Essays on the Suture of the Future. Antwerp: EXA, 1985. pages 433-437. (Series: Intrepid Reeks number 11.) Also as: "Science Fiction's Invisible Female Men: Joanna Russ's 'When It Changed' and James Tiptree's 'The Women Men Don't See.'", in Chapter 5 of Lost in Space (1993)

Damien Broderick and Joanna Russ.

• "The Broderick-Russ Correspondence." Australian Science Fiction Review, May 1987, pp. 9-18.

Deirdre Byrne.

• "The Postmodernization of Gender / The Gendering of Postmodernism: Joanna Russ's Extra(Ordinary) People." Unisa English Studies: Journal of the Department of English v. 30 no. 1 (1992): pp. 47-52.

Cheryl Cline.

• "Feminist Perspective: The Female Man." Windhaven Volume 1, Number 1 (1977): pages 6-9.

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Samuel R. Delany

• Introduction. Alyx by Joanna Russ. Boston: Gregg Press, 1976.
• "Orders of Chaos: The Science Fiction of Joanna Russ." Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Jane B. Weedman. Lubock: Texas Tech Press, 1985: 95-124.

Rachel Blau DuPlessis.

• "The Feminist Apologues of Lessing, Piercy, and Russ." Frontiers Volume 4, Number 1 (Spring 1979): Pages 1-8.

Carl Freedman.

• "Joanna Russ and the Violence of Gender" (chapter) in Critical Theory and Science Fiction (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2000)

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Judith Kegan Gardiner.

• "Empathic Ways of Reading: Narcissism, Cultural Politics, and Russ's Female Man." Feminist Studies v. 20, no. 1 (Spring 1994): pp. 87-111.

Michael Goodwin.

• "On Reading: A Giant Step for Science Fiction." Mother Jones I (1976), p. 62. Discusses Joanna Russ's The Female Man.

Marilyn Hacker.

• "Science Fiction and Feminism: The Work of Joanna Russ." Chrysalis, Number 4 (1977): pages 67-79.

Richard Harter.

• "Science Fiction is Trash" http://www.tiac.net/users/cri/trash.html a critique of Joanna Russ, among other things ...

Marilyn J. Holt

• "No Docile Daughters: A Study of Two Novels by Joanna Russ." Room of One's Own v. 6, nos. 1-2 (1981): pp. 92-99.

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Charles Johnson.

• "A Dialogue: Samuel Delany and Joanna Russ on Science Fiction." Callaloo: An Afro-American and African Journal of Arts and Letters, v. 7, no. 3 (Fall 1984): pp. 27-35.

Sylvia Kelso.

• "Breaking Frames: The Elusive Science Fiction of Joanna Russ." Colloquy, no. 1, 1996: pp. 56-66.

Brooks Landon.

• "Eve at the End of the World: Sexuality and the Reversal of Expectations in Novels by Joanna Russ, Angela Carter, and Thomas Berger." Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature, ed. Donald Palumbo. New York: Greenwood, 1986: pp. 61-74.

Richard G. Law

• "Joanna Russ and the 'Literature of Exhaustion.'" Extrapolation, v. 23 (v. 25?) (Summer 1984): pages 146-156.

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Catherine McClenahan.

• "Textual Politics: The Uses of the Imagination in Joanna Russ's The Female Man." Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, v. 70 (1982): 114-125.

Tom Moylan.

• Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination. New York & London: Methuen, 1986. (Studies of Joanna Russ's The Female Man; Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed; Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time; and Samuel Delany's Triton.)

Patrick D. Murphy

• "'Gender Politics': Epithet or Accolade? Or, Feminist SF and the Case of Joanna Russ." New York Review of Science Fiction, v. 1, no. 10 (#10) (1989): pp. 1-5.
• "Suicide, Murder, Culture, and Catastrophe: Joanna Russ's We Who Are About To...." in State of the Fantastic: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Fantastic Literature and Film, editor Nicholas Ruddick. (series: Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy: v. 50) (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992: pp. 121-131.

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Natalie M. Rosinsky

• "A Female Man? The 'Medusan' Humor of Joanna Russ." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction, v. 23 no. 1 (1982): pp. 31-36.

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Theresia Sauter-Bailliet.

• "Joanna Russ, The Female Man (1975)" in Hartmut Heuermann, editor, Der Science-Fiction-Roman in der Angloamerikanischen Literatur: Interpretationen (Düsseldorf: Bagel, 1986), pages 355-375.

Robert Scholes.

• "A Footnote to Russ's 'Recent Feminist Utopias'" in Marleen S. Barr, editor, Future Females: A Critical Anthology (Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1981), pages 86-87.

Thelma J. Shinn (Dina Sherzer?)

• "Worlds of Words and Swords: Suzette Haden Elgin and Joanna Russ at Work." Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Jane B. Weedman. Lubock: Texas Tech Press, 1985: pp. 207-222.

Judith A. Spector

• "Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde: Gender-Related Conflict in the Science Fiction of Joanna Russ." Extrapolation Volume 24, no. 4 (Winter 1983), pages 370-379.
• "The Functions of Sexuality in the Science Fiction of Russ, Piercy, and Le Guin." in Donald Palumbo, editor, Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature. New York: Greenwood, 1986. pages 197-207.

Kathleen L. Spencer

• "Rescuing the Female Child: The Fiction of Joanna Russ." Science Fiction Studies. Volume 17, no. 2 (July 1990), pages 167-187.

Monographs

Jeanne Cortiel.

• Demand My Writing: Joanna Russ / Feminism / Science Fiction Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999, 254 pages.

Tatian Teslenko.

• Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s: Joanna Russ and Dorothy Bryant. Routledge: 2003. ISBN 0415967872. ISBN 9780415967873.

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Sarah LeFanu. "The Reader as Subject: Joanna Russ." In the Chinks of the World's Machine. 1988. (alternate title: Feminism and Science Fiction),173-198. PN3433.6.L4 1988 Frances Bartkowski. "The Kinship Web: Joanna Russ' The Female Man and Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time." Feminist Utopias. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. 49-80. PS374 .U8 B38 1989 Joanna Russ. "Recent Feminist Utopias." Future Females: A Critical Anthology. Ed. Marleen Barr. Bowling Green State UP, 1981. 71-89. PS374.S35 F8 1981 Russ, Joanna. To Write Like a Woman, 1995. PS 147 R87 1995 Lucie Armitt. "Chronotypes and Cyborgs: Octavia Butler, Joanna Russ, Fay Weldon and Marge Piercy." in Contemporary Women's Fiction and the Fantastic, ed. Lucie Armitt. Macmillan, 2000. 39-65 PN3435 .A73 2000 Maroula Joannou. "Science Fiction and Detective Fiction" in Women of the Future: The Female Main Character in Science Fiction. Manchester University Press, 2000. 125-135. PR608 .W65 J62 2000. Marleen S. Barr. "Female Men (on Russ and Tiptree)." Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1993. 59-66. PS374 .S35 B33 1993