Demand My Writing
Joanna Russ, Feminism, Science Fiction
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
264 pages
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6 x 9
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© 1999
In this major study of the work of Joanna Russ, Jeanne Cortiel gives a clear introduction to the major feminist issues relevant to Russ’s work and assesses its development. The book will be especially valuable for students of SF and feminist SF, especially in its concern with the function of woman-based intertextuality. Although Cortiel deals principally with Russ’s novels, she also examines her short stories, and the focus on critically neglected texts is a particularly valuable feature of the study.
"I recommend this book to any reader interested in Russ’s fiction, or in women’s science fiction generally."—Science Fiction Studies
"I recommend this book to any reader interested in Russ’s fiction, or in women’s science fiction generally."—Science Fiction Studies
Science Fiction Studies
"I recommend this book to any reader interested in Russ’s fiction, or in women’s science fiction generally."
-- Science Fiction Studies
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART ONE: AGENCY
Introduction to Part One
Chapter One: The Act of Telling: Who is the Subject of Narrative Action?
Chapter Two: Acts of Violence: Representations of Androcide
Chapter Three: The Revolutionary Act: A Dialectic of Sex/Gender in The Female Man
PART TWO: SEXUALITY
Introduction to Part Two
Chapter Four: Author-izing the Female: Women Loving Women Loving Women
Chapter Five: Patterns of Innocence: The Rescue of the Female Child
Chapter Six: Lesbian Existence: Impossible Dreams of Exteriority
PART THREE: INDETERMINACY
Introduction to Part Three
Chapter Seven: Patterns of Experience: Sappho and the Erotics of the Generation Gap
Chapter Eight: the Great, Grand Palimpsest of Me: Fragmented Locations and Identities
Chapter Nine: Vampires, Cyborgs and Disguises: Politics of the Theatrical
Notes
Primary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Novels and Short Stories by Joanna Russ
Introduction
PART ONE: AGENCY
Introduction to Part One
Chapter One: The Act of Telling: Who is the Subject of Narrative Action?
Chapter Two: Acts of Violence: Representations of Androcide
Chapter Three: The Revolutionary Act: A Dialectic of Sex/Gender in The Female Man
PART TWO: SEXUALITY
Introduction to Part Two
Chapter Four: Author-izing the Female: Women Loving Women Loving Women
Chapter Five: Patterns of Innocence: The Rescue of the Female Child
Chapter Six: Lesbian Existence: Impossible Dreams of Exteriority
PART THREE: INDETERMINACY
Introduction to Part Three
Chapter Seven: Patterns of Experience: Sappho and the Erotics of the Generation Gap
Chapter Eight: the Great, Grand Palimpsest of Me: Fragmented Locations and Identities
Chapter Nine: Vampires, Cyborgs and Disguises: Politics of the Theatrical
Notes
Primary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Novels and Short Stories by Joanna Russ
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