Joanna Russ

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born

February 22, 1937 in New York, New York, The United States

died

April 29, 2011

gender

female

website

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/r/joanna-russ/

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Women & Gender Studies

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Joanna Russ was an American writer and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism and is best known for The Female Man, a novel combining utopian fiction and satire. It uses the device of parallel worlds as a form of a mediation of the ways that different societies might produce very different versions of the same person, and how all might interact and respond to sexism.

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Books by Joanna Russ

Average rating: 3.91 · 5,752 ratings · 407 reviews · 66 distinct works

	The Female Man 3.53 avg rating — 1,094 ratings — published 1975 — 11 editions	My rating:
	How to Suppress Women's Writing 4.31 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	My rating:
	We Who Are About to 3.67 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1976 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Picnic on Paradise 3.37 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1968 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Adventures of Alyx 3.42 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1976 — 3 editions	My rating:
	To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction 3.85 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	And Chaos Died 3.38 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1970 — 3 editions	My rating:
	On Strike Against God (Feminist Series) 4.33 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Zanzibar Cat 3.58 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Extra (Ordinary) People 3.61 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1984 — 5 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Joanna Russ

“As my mother once said, 'The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.”
― Joanna Russ, The Female Man

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“Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.”
― Joanna Russ

tags: feminism , writing

22 people liked it

“I'm not a girl. I'm a genius. ”
― Joanna Russ, The Female Man

21 people liked it

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