Joanna Russ /
Experimental, strange and unabashedly feminist, Joanna Russ's groundbreaking science fiction grew out of a belief that the genre was ideal for expressing radical thought. Her essays and criticism, meanwhile, helped shape the field and still exercise a powerful influence in both science fiction...
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| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Modern masters of science fiction.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Joanna Russ, trans-temp agent: from the death of the universe to "the second Inquisition"
- Joanna Russ and the new wave: experiment and experience in the world of "And Chaos Died"
- Year zero art: a lost generation finds its voice in "The Female Man"
- The secret feminist cabal: SF's sexual politics and the "Khatru" symposium
- The spook by science fiction's door: Joanna Russ, violence, and "We Who Are About To..."
- Joining the cultural minority: "The Two of Them" puts the female man on trial
- Beyond gender? "Extra(Ordinary)People" imagines a world without feminism
- "Postscribble": an afterword
- Interviews
- A Joanna Russ bibliography
- Notes
- Select bibliography of secondary sources
- Index.