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