Scholarship and criticism on Joanna Russ

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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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