Demand My Writing [electronic resource] : Joanna Russ, Feminism, Science Fiction
Cortiel, Jeanne.
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,
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.
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Title Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: Agency; Introduction to Part One; 1: The Act of Telling: Who is the Subject of Narrative Action?; 2: Acts of Violence: Representations of Androcide; 3: The Revolutionary Act: A Dialectic of Sex/Gender in The Female Man; Part Two: Sexuality; Introduction to Part Two; 4: Author-izing the Female: Women Loving Women Loving Women; 5: Patterns of Innocence: The Rescue of the Female Child; 6: Lesbian Existence: Impossible Dreams of Exteriority; Part Three: Indeterminacy; Introduction to Part Three
7: Patterns of Experience: Sappho and the Erotics of the Generation Gap8: The Great, Grand Palimpsest of Me: Fragmented Locations and Identities; 9: 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
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Russ, Joanna, 1937-2011
Feminism in literature.
Russ, Joanna.
Science fiction, American.
Feminism and literature
Women and literature
Feminist fiction, American
Science fiction, American
English
Languages & Literatures
American Literature