On Joanna Russ

On Joanna Russ is a collection of critical essays on one of the most important feminist sf authors, Joanna Russ. It is edited by Farah Mendlesohn.

Table of Contents

• Part I: Criticism and Community
  • Alyx Among the Genres, Gary K. Wolfe
  • Russ on Writing Science Fiction and Reviewing It, Edward James
  • A History of One's Own: Joanna Russ and the Creation of a Feminist Science Fiction Tradition, Lisa Yaszek
  • The Female "Atlas" of Science Fiction? Russ, Feminism and the SF Community, Helen Merrick
  • Learning the "Prophet Business": The Merril-Russ Intersection, Dianne Newell and Jenéa Tallentire
• Part II: Fiction
  • Joanna Russ's The Two of Them in an Age of Third-wave Feminism, Sherryl Vint
  • "That Is Not Me. I Am Not That": Anger and the Will to Action in Joanna Russ's Fiction, Pat Wheeler
  • Les Human Beans? Alienation, Humanity and Community in Joanna Russ's On Strike Against God, Keridwen Luis
  • Kittens Who Run With Wolves: Healthy Girl Development in Joanna Russ's Kittatiny, Sandra Lindow
  • Medusa Laughs: Birds, Thieves, and Other Unruly Women, Andrew M. Butler
  • Violent Women, Womanly Violence: Joanna Russ's Femmes Fatales, Jason Vest
  • Art and Amity: The "Opposed Aesthetic" in Mina Loy and Joanna Russ, Paul March-Russell
  • Joanna Russ and D.W. Griffith, Samuel R. Delany
  • Extraordinary People: Joanna Russ's Short Fiction, Graham Sleight
  • Castaway: Carnival and Sociobiological Satire in We Who Are About To..., Tess Williams
  • The Narrative Topology of Resistance in the Fiction of Joanna Russ, Brian Charles Clark

Editions

• 2009 Wesleyan University Press

External Links

• Strange Horizons Review, by L. Timmel Duchamp
• SF Site review, by Paul Kincaid
• A response to Kincaid's review by L. Timmel Duchamp at Ambling Along the Aqueduct
• Farah Mendlesohn on Joanna Russ, Interviewed by Graham Sleight