Joanna Russ - Non-fiction

Books

How to Suppress Women's Writing.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983.

Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts: Feminist Essays.
The Crossing Press Feminist Series. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1985.

To Write Like a Woman. Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction.
Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995.
Table of contents:
Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction Speculations: The Subjunctivity of Science Fiction
SF and Technology as Mystification
Amor Vincit Foeminam: The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction
On the Fascination of Horror Stories, Including Lovecraft's
A Boy and His Dog: The Final Solution
What Can a Heroine Do? or Why Women Can't Write
Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic
On Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Recent Feminist Utopias
To Write "Like a Woman": Transformations of Identity in the Work of Willa Cather
On "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Is "Smashing" Erotic?
Letter to Susan Koppelman

What Are We Fighting For? Sex, Race, Class and the Future of Feminism.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Uncollected essays

"Creating Positive Images of Women: A Writer's perspective."
Women Writer's Conference. [N.P.]: [n.p., n.d. N. pag.]

"Dream Literature and Science Fiction."
Extrapolation. 11 (Dec. 1969): 6-14.

"Communique from the Front: Teaching and the State of Art." Colloquy. 4.5 (May 1971): [n. pag.]

"Genre."
Clarion. 5 (1971): [n. pag.]

"The Image of Women in Science Fiction."
The Red Clay Reader. [N.p.: n.p.], 1971. [N. pag.]
Rpt. Images Of Women In Fiction: Feminist Perspectives. Ed. Susan Koppelman Cornillon. Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1972. 79-94.
Rpt. Vertex. 1.6 (February 1974): 53-57.

"The Wearing Out of Genre Materials."
College English. 31.1 (Oct. 1971): 46-54.

"The He-Man Ethos in Science Fiction."
Clarion. 2 (1972): [n. pag.]

"'What if' Literature."
The Contemporary Literary Scene1973. Ed. Frank N. Magill. [N.p.]: [n.p.],1974. [N. pag.]

"The Scholar as Translator (Contra)."
Translators and Translating: Selected Essays From the American Translators Association, Summer Workshops, 1974. Ed. T. Ellen. Crandell. Binghamton: State U of New York P. 1975: 61-64.

"Outta Space: Women Write Science Fiction."
Ms. Magazine Jan.1976: 109+.

"Alien Monsters."
Turning Points: Essays in the Art of Science Fiction. Ed. Damon Knight. New York: Harper, 1977. 132-143.

"'Technology,' The Immense Red Herring."
Forum on Technology and the Literary Mind, Proc. of the MLA Convention Dec. 1977, [n.p.: n.p., n.d.] 1-22.


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