Joanna Russ

Author : Joanna Russ
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504050937

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The Female Man by Joanna Russ Pdf

Four alternate selves from radically different realities come together in this “dazzling” and “trailblazing work” (The Washington Post). Widely acknowledged as Joanna Russ’s masterpiece, The Female Man is the suspenseful, surprising, darkly witty, and boldly subversive chronicle of what happens when Jeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jael—all living in parallel worlds—meet. Librarian Jeannine is waiting for marriage in a past where the Depression never ended, Janet lives on a utopian Earth with an all-female population, Joanna is a feminist in the 1970s, and Jael is a warrior with claws and teeth on an Earth where male and female societies are at war with each other. When the four women begin traveling to one another’s worlds, their preconceptions on gender and identity are forever challenged. With “palpable anger . . . leavened by wit and humor” (The New York Times), Russ both employs and upends genre conventions to deliver a wickedly satiric and exhilarating version of when worlds collide and women get woke. This ebook includes the Nebula Award–winning bonus short story “When It Changed,” set in the world of The Female Man.

Author : Joanna Russ
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504050968

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We Who Are About To . . . by Joanna Russ Pdf

One woman resists the demands of her fellow stranded survivors on an inhospitable planet in this “elegant and electric . . . tour-de-force” (Samuel R. Delany). In this stunning and boldly imagined novel, an explosion leaves the passengers of a starship marooned on a barren alien planet. Despite only a slim chance for survival, most of the strangers are determined to colonize their new home. But the civilization they hoped for rapidly descends into a harsh microcosm of a male-dominated society, with the females in the group relegated to the subservient position of baby-makers. One holdout wants to accept her fate realistically and prepare for death. But her desperate fellow survivors have no intention of honoring her individual right to choose. They’re prepared to force her to submit to their plan for reproduction—which will prove to be a grave mistake . . . In Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Joanna Russ’s trailblazing body of work, “her genius flows and convinces, shames and alarms” (The Washington Post).

Author : Joanna Russ
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1983-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0292724454

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How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ Pdf

Discusses the obstacles women have had to overcome in order to become writers, and identifies the sexist rationalizations used to trivialize their contributions

Author : Joanna Russ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Clairvoyance
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005431163

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And Chaos Died by Joanna Russ Pdf

An exploration of telepathy and clairvoyance by an Earthman marooned on an earth like planet populated by humans who have lost contact with the home world.

Author : Joanna Russ
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0253209838

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To Write Like a Woman by Joanna Russ Pdf

"To Write Like a Woman is a rare example of a feminist tackling science fictuion using postmodern theory, which makes for a much more sophisticated and nuanced appraisal than the usual fare." —Passion "Russ' essays are witty and insightful. An excellent book for any writer or reader." —Feminist Bookstore News "In her new book of essays . . . Russ continues to debunk and demand, edify and entertain. . . . Appreciative of surface aesthetics, she continually delves deeper than most critics, yet in terms so simple and accessible that her essays read like lively, angry, humorous dialogues conducted face-to-face with the author. Russ is the antithesis of the distant critic in her ivory tower." —Paul Di Filippo, The Washington Post Book World " . . . 20 years of the author's feisty reports from the front lines of literature." —The San Francisco Review of Books "This is a book of imaginative and provoking essays, but you should read it for the sheer fun of it." —The Women's Review of Books "Collects more than two decades of criticism by Joanna Russ, one of the most perceptive, forthright and eloquent feminist commentators around." —Feminist Bookstore News " . . . a super book. . . .This is a book that, for once, really will appeal to readers of all kinds." —Utopian Studies "If you enjoy science fiction, this is definitely a book that you'll want to talk about. I found myself sneaking a few pages at times when I really didn't have time to read." —Jan Catano, Atlantis Classic essays on science fiction and feminism by Nebula and Hugo award-winning Joanna Russ. Here she ranges from a consideration of the aesthetic of science fiction to a reading of the lesbian identity of Willa Cather. To Write Like a Woman includes essays on horror stories and the supernatural, feminist utopias, popular literature for women (the "modern gothic"), and the feminist education of graduate students in English.

Author : Joanna Russ
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504050944

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Picnic on Paradise by Joanna Russ Pdf

A new kind of sci-fi heroine, the tough-as-nails Alyx, is introduced in this Nebula Award finalist that Poul Anderson called an “extraordinary” novel. Set in a semi-utopian world, Joanna Russ’s groundbreaking debut novel is the story of Alyx, a female soldier, survival guide, and agent of the Trans-Temporal Authority. Displaced in time from her ancient Greece, Alyx is tasked with safely leading a group of pampered human vacationers—including some unconventional nuns and a detached teenager known as the Machine—across an uninhabited scenic terrain to a relief station. But the journey proves more challenging than anticipated as they confront one another’s failings; the physical dangers of an icy, hostile wilderness; and Alyx’s own personal demons. Long before the kick-ass heroines of current science fiction and fantasy, Russ unapologetically introduced readers to a short, strong, middle-aged (for her world/time) woman of twenty-six who knows how to survive but struggles with the emotional nuances of her charges and the confusion of her own mixed feelings. With iconic characters like Alyx, Russ “four decades ago helped deliver science fiction into the hands of the most alien creatures the genre had yet seen—women . . . [and] helped inaugurate the now flourishing tradition of feminist science fiction” (The New York Times).

Author : Joanna Russ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 0704341859

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The Hidden Side of the Moon by Joanna Russ Pdf

Author : Joanna Russ
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0819567604

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The Two of Them by Joanna Russ Pdf

How female solidarity begins—in experience, thought, action, and force of conviction.

Author : Gwyneth Jones
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252051487

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Joanna Russ by Gwyneth Jones Pdf

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 SF and feminist literary studies.Award-winning author and critic Gwyneth Jones offers a new appraisal of Russ's work and ideas. After years working in male-dominated SF, Russ emerged in the late 1960s with Alyx, the uber-capable can-do heroine at the heart of Picnic on Paradise and other popular stories and books. Soon, Russ's fearless embrace of gender politics and life as an out lesbian made her a target for male outrage while feminist classics like The Female Man and The Two of Them took SF in innovative new directions. Jones also delves into Russ's longtime work as a critic of figures as diverse as Lovecraft and Cather, her foundational place in feminist fandom, important essays like "Amor Vincit Foeminam," and her career in academia.

Author : Joanna Russ
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041032314

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The Adventures of Alyx by Joanna Russ Pdf

Author : Joanna Russ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0918314135

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On Strike Against God by Joanna Russ Pdf

Author : Jeanne Cortiel
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0853236143

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Demand My Writing by Jeanne Cortiel Pdf

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

Author : Joanna Russ
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781598537543

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Joanna Russ: Novels & Stories (LOA #373) by Joanna Russ Pdf

Rediscover one of America’s best SF writers in a definitive hardcover edition gathering all her finest work together for the first time A LGBTQIA+ pioneer joins the Library of America series An incandescent stylist with a dark sense of humor and a provocative feminist edge, Joanna Russ upended every genre in which she worked. The essential novels and stories gathered in this definitive Library of America edition make a case for Russ not only as an astonishing writer of speculative fiction, but, in the words of Samuel Delany, “one of the finest––and most necessary––writers of American fiction” period. Here is her now-classic novel The Female Man (1975), in which four remarkable women––Jeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jael––traverse alternate histories and parallel worlds (including the brilliantly imagined all-female utopia, Whileaway) in a multi-voiced, multidimensional voyage that continues to alter readers’ sense of gender and reality. We Who Are About To … (1977), recounting the fate of a misfit band of space-tourists stranded on an alien world, challenges “golden age” expectations about civilization, in what becomes an allegorical thriller. In On Strike Against God (1980), her incisive, darkly comic, and ultimately joyous final novel, Russ returns to Earth to explore LGBTQIA+ and feminist themes and the unfamiliar territory of “coming out” and lesbian romance. Russ’s “Complete Alyx Stories”––which feature her inimitably sly, resilient, and stone-cold heroine Alyx, who is plucked from a life of petty crime in ancient Phoenicia to serve as adventurer-for-hire for the Trans-Temporal Authority, and which reinvent the sword and sorcery genre for a postmodern era––are presented in their entirety here for the first time, and newly restored to print. Also included are her unforgettable tales “When It Changed” and “Souls,” the former a 1973 Nebula Award winner and the latter the recipient of the 1983 Hugo and Locus Awards.

Author : Joanna Russ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X006073588

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Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts by Joanna Russ Pdf

Author : Joanna Russ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
ISBN : UCSC:32106007159996

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The Zanzibar Cat by Joanna Russ Pdf