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* "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.


==Interviews with Russ==
* "Reflections on Science Fiction: An Interview with Joanna Russ." Quest, v. 2, no. 1 (Summer 1975): pp. 40-49.
==Reviews of Russ' fiction==
==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]].
; [[Margo Axsom]].
* ''[[Border Crossings|Border Crossings: The Emergence of Feminist Science Fiction as a Genre]]''. Dissertation.
* ''[[Border Crossings|Border Crossings: The Emergence of Feminist Science Fiction as a Genre]]''. Dissertation.
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:: Discussion of ''[[Angel Island]]'' by [[Inez Haynes Gilmore]] and ''[[The Female Man]]'' by [[Joanna Russ]].  
:: 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==
===ABC===
; [[Susan Ayres]].
; [[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.  
* "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]];  
; [[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)
*  "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.
 
 
===DEF===
; [[Samuel R. Delany]]
*  Introduction. Alyx by Joanna Russ. Boston: Gregg Press, 1976.
*  "Orders of Chaos: The Science Fiction of Joanna Russ." ''[[Women Worldwalkers|Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy]]'', edited by Jane B. Weedman. Lubock: Texas Tech Press, 1985: 95-124.


; [[Douglas Barbour]].
; [[Rachel Blau DuPlessis]].
* "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.
* "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)
 
 
===GHI===
; [[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.
 
===JKL===
 
; [[Charles Johnson]].
* "A Dialogue: Samuel Delany and Joanna Russ on Science Fiction." ''[[Callaloo|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]].
; [[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.  
* "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|Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature]]'', ed. Donald Palumbo. New York: Greenwood, 1986: pp. 61-74.  


; [[Richard G. Law]]
; [[Richard G. Law]]
*  "Joanna Russ and the 'Literature of Exhaustion.'" Extrapolation v. 23 (v. 25?) (Summer 1984): pages 146-156.
*  "Joanna Russ and the 'Literature of Exhaustion.'" ''Extrapolation'', v. 23 (v. 25?) (Summer 1984): pages 146-156.
 
 
===MNO===
; [[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|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.
 


; Freedman, Carl.
===PQR===
*"Joanna Russ and the Violence of Gender" (chapter) in Critical Theory and Science Fiction (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2000)


==Interviews with Russ==
; [[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.




===STU===
; [[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|Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy]]'', ed. Jane B. Weedman. Lubock: Texas Tech Press, 1985: pp. 207-222.


==Reviews of Russ' fiction==
; [[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|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.




==Scholarship and criticism on Russ==
===VWXYZ===


===Articles===
; Linden, Julie.
* "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.




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===Monographs===
===Monographs===
; Tatian Teslenko.  
; [[Jeanne Cortiel]].
* ''[[Demand My Writing|Demand My Writing: Joanna Russ / Feminism / Science Fiction]]'' Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999, 254 pages.
 
; [[Tatian Teslenko]].
* ''[[Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s|Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s: Joanna Russ and Dorothy Bryant]]''. Routledge: 2003. ISBN 0415967872. ISBN 9780415967873.
* ''[[Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s|Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s: Joanna Russ and Dorothy Bryant]]''. Routledge: 2003. ISBN 0415967872. ISBN 9780415967873.


==unsorted==


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


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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.



Reviews of Russ' fiction

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.
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

ABC

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.


DEF

Samuel R. Delany
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)


GHI

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.
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.

JKL

Charles Johnson.
Sylvia Kelso.
  • "Breaking Frames: The Elusive Science Fiction of Joanna Russ." Colloquy, no. 1, 1996: pp. 56-66.
Brooks Landon.
Richard G. Law
  • "Joanna Russ and the 'Literature of Exhaustion.'" Extrapolation, v. 23 (v. 25?) (Summer 1984): pages 146-156.


MNO

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.
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.


PQR

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.


STU

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?)
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.


VWXYZ

Monographs

Jeanne Cortiel.
Tatian Teslenko.

unsorted

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

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