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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Trade ReviewJeanne Cortiel offers a single author study of Joanna Russ's works in the context on the history of late-twentieth-century feminism. The book is well written and elegantly argued ...
Science Fiction StudiesTable of 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
