To Write Like a Woman

To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction (1995) is a collection; it reprints thirteen essays and one letter by Joanna Russ, which were originally published in the 1970s and 1980s. These texts are divided into two sections: Part One regroups numbers 1 to 6, and Part Two, 7 to 14.

Russ precedes each text with an introduction.

List of contents

Introduction by Sarah Lefanu

Author's Introduction

Part One:

1. Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction
2. Speculations: The Subjunctivity of Science Fction
3. SF and Technology as Mystification (online version)
4. Amor Vincit Foeminam: The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction
5. On the Fascination of Horror Stories, Including Lovecraft's
6. A Boy and His Dog: The Final Solution (online version)

Part Two:

7. What Can a Heroine Do? or Why Women Can't Write
8. Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic
9. On Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
10. Recent Feminist Utopias
11. To Write "Like a Woman": Transformations of Identity in the Work of Willa Cather
12. On "The Yellow Wallpaper"
13. Is "Smashing" Erotic?
14. Letter to Susan Koppelman

Index

External Links

• Full text of chapter 6, A Boy and His Dog: The Final Solution