To Write Like a Woman

To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction (1995) 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 preceeds each essay (and the letter) 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 fiction
3. SF and Technology as Mystification
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

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