On Joanna Russ

On Joanna Russ is an anthology 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