Joanna Russ: Secondary Scholarship on her work

[ithiliana]

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Annas, Pamela J. "New Worlds, New Words: Androgyny in Feminist Science Fiction." Science-Fiction Studies 5 (1978): 143-56. Print.

Ayres, Susan. "The 'Straight Mind' in Russ's the Female Man." Science Fiction Studies 22.1 (1995): 22-34. Print.

---. "The Straight Mind in Russ's the Female Man." Critical Studies on the Feminist Subject. Ed. Covi, Giovanna. Labirinti: Collana Del Dipartimento Di Scienze Filologiche E Storiche (Labirinti): 30. Trento, Italy: Dipartimento di Scienze Filologiche e Storiche, Università degli Studi di Trento, 1997. 165-84. Print.

Barbour, Douglas. "Joanna Russ's the Female Man: An Appreciation." The Sphinx: A Magazine of Literature and Society 4.1 (1981): 67-75. Print.

Barr, Marleen. "Science Fiction's Invisible Female Man: Feminism, Formula, Word and World in When It Changed and the Women Men Don't See." Just the Other Day: Essays on the Suture of the Future. Ed. Vos, Luk de. Intrepid Reeks: 11. Antwerp: EXA, 1985. 433-37. Print.

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Benstock, Shari. "From the Editor's Perspective: 'the Feminist Critique: Mastering Our Monstrosity'." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 2.2 (1983): 137-49. Print.

Berman, Jeffrey. "Where's All the Fiction in Science Fiction?" Future Females: A Critical Anthology. Ed. Barr, Marleen S. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State U Popular P, 1981. 164-76. Print.

Borghi, Liana. "Liminaliens and Others-but Mostly Vamps, Dragons and Women's Sf." Critical Studies on the Feminist Subject. Ed. Covi, Giovanna. Labirinti: Collana Del Dipartimento Di Scienze Filologiche E Storiche (Labirinti): 30. Trento, Italy: Dipartimento di Scienze Filologiche e Storiche, Università degli Studi di Trento, 1997. 101-25. Print.

Boulter, Amanda. "Speculative Feminisms: The Significance of Feminist Theory in the Science Fiction of Joanna Russ, James Tiptree, Jr., and Octavia Butler." U of Southampton, 1997. Vol. 58. Print.

---. "Unnatural Acts: American Feminism and Joanna Russ's the Female Man." Women: A Cultural Review 10.2 (1999): 151-66. Print.

Brownworth, Victoria A. "Battling Back." Lambda Book Report: A Review of Contemporary Gay and Lesbian Literature 4.7 (1994): 6-7. Print.

Bugallo, Alicia Irene. "La Imagen De La Mujer En La Literatura De Ciencia Ficción." Estudios Filológicos 31 (1996): 75-80. Print.

Burwell, Jennifer Lise. "Gendered Identity and Body Politic: Twentieth Century Transformations of Utopian Form." Northwestern U, 1993. 1787A-87A. Vol. 54. Print.

Byrne, Deirdre. "The Postmodernization of Gender/the Gendering of Postmodernism: Joanna Russ's Extra(Ordinary) People." Unisa English Studies: Journal of the Department of English 30.1 (1992): 47-52. Print.

Bérard, Sylvie. "Venues, Vues, Vécues: Entre Le Sujet Science-Fictionnel Et L'auteure Science-Fictive." Dalhousie French Studies 47 (1999): 115-32. Print.

Clark, Michael. "The Future of History: Violence and the Feminine in Contemporary Science Fiction." American Studies in Transition. Eds. Nye, David E. and Christen Kold Thomsen. Odense University Studies in English (Ouse): 9. Odense: Odense UP, 1985. 235-58. Print.

Cohen-Safir, Claude. "Perspectives Transgénériques: Joanna Russ, Anne Rice, Ursula Le Guin." Revue Francaise d'Etudes Americaines 15.43 (1990): 33-46. Print.

Colella, Silvana. "Androgino E Utopia: I Romanzi Di Ursula K. Le Guin E Joanna Russ." Nuova Corrente: Rivista di Letteratura 35.101 (1988): 55-84. Print.

Coniglio, Corine. "Transforming Identity and Performing Ecofeminist Ethics in Novels by Marge Piercy, Joanna Russ, and Janet Kauffman." Indiana U, Pennsylvania, 1999. 741-41. Vol. 60. Print.

Cortiel, Jeanne. Demand My Writing: Joanna Russ/Feminism/Science Fiction. Liverpool, England: Liverpool UP, 1999. Print.

---. "Determinate Politics of Indeterminacy: Reading Joanna Russ's Recent Work in Light of Her Early Short Fiction." Future Females, the Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism. Eds. Barr, Marleen S., et al. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. 219-36. Print.

Crowder, Diane Griffin. "Separatism and Feminist Utopian Fiction." Sexual Practice, Textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism. Eds. Wolfe, Susan J. and Julia Penelope. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1993. 237-50. Print.

Daemmrich, Ingrid. "'Do Not Reach up from Readers' Laps and Punch the Readers' Noses': Joanna Russ's Provocative Message in Her Ending to the Female Man." Explicator 67.2 (2009): 142-46. Print.

Delany, Samuel R. "Joanna Russ and D. W. Griffith." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119.3 (2004): 500-08. Print.

---. "Orders of Chaos: The Science Fiction of Joanna Russ." Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Weedman, Jane B. Lubbock: Texas Tech P, 1985. 95-123. Print.

---. "The Order of 'Chaos'." Science-Fiction Studies 6 (1979): 333-36. Print.

Donaldson, Eileen. "Hail the Conquering Campbellian S/Hero: Joanna Russ's Alyx." Practicing Science Fiction: Critical Essays on Writing, Reading and Teaching the Genre. Eds. Hellekson, Karen, et al. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 154-67. Print.

Duchamp, L. Timmel. "Burning the Complacent Veldt of Narrative: Reading on Joanna Russ." New York Review of Science Fiction 22.7 [259] (2010): 1. Print.

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. "The Feminist Apologues of Lessing, Piercy, and Russ." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 4.1 (1979): 1-8. Print.

Fitting, Peter. "Positioning and Closure: On the 'Reading Effect' of Contemporary Utopian Fiction." Utopian Studies I. Eds. Beauchamp, Gorman, Kenneth Roemer and Nicholas D. Smith. Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1987. 23-36. Print.

Freedman, Carl. Critical Theory and Science Fiction. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan UP, 2000. Print.

Frisch, Adam J. "Language Fragmentation in Recent Science-Fiction Novels." The Intersection of Science Fiction and Philosophy: Critical Studies. Ed. Myers, Robert E. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy): 4. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1983. 147-58. Print.

Gardiner, Judith Kegan. "Empathic Ways of Reading: Narcissism, Cultural Politics, and Russ's Female Man." Feminist Studies 20.1 (1994): 87-111. Print.

Garland, Barbara. "Joanna Russ." Twentieth-Century American Science Fiction Writers Part Ii: M-Z. Eds. Cowart, David and Thomas L. Wymer. Dictionary of Literary Biography (Dlb): 8 (2). Detroit, MI: Gale, 1981. 88-93. Print.

Hicks, Heather. "Automating Feminism: The Case of Joanna Russ's the Female Man." Postmodern Culture: An Electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Criticism 9.3 (1999). Print.

Hollinger, Veronica. "(Re)Reading Queerly: Science Fiction, Feminism, and the Defamiliarization of Gender." Future Females, the Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism. Eds. Barr, Marleen S., et al. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. 197-215. Print.

---. "(Re)Reading Queerly: Science Fiction, Feminism, and the Defamiliarization of Gender." Reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture. Eds. Flanagan, Mary and Austin Booth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. 301-20. Print.

Holt, Marilyn J. "Joanna Russ, 1937." Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. Ed. Bleiler, Everett Franklin. New York: Scribner's, 1982. 483-90. Print.

---. "No Docile Daughters: A Study of Two Novels by Joanna Russ." Room of One's Own 6.1-2 (1981): 92-99. Print.

Howard, June. "Widening the Dialogue on Feminist Science Fiction." Science Fiction Dialogues. Ed. Wolfe, Gary. Chicago: Academy Chicago, 1982. 155-68. Print.

---. "Widening the Dialogue on Feminist Science Fiction." Feminist Re-Visions: What Has Been and Might Be. Eds. Patraka, Vivian and Louise A. Tilly. Ann Arbor: Women's Studies Program, Univ. of Michigan, 1983. 64-96. Print.

Huckle, Patricia. "Women in Utopias." The Utopian Vision: Seven Essays on the Quincentennial of Sir Thomas More. Ed. Sullivan, E. D. S. Chautauqua Ser.: 1. San Diego: San Diego State UP, 1983. 115-36. Print.

Johnson, Charles. "A Dialogue: Samuel Delany and Joanna Russ on Science Fiction." Callaloo: A Journal of African American and African Arts and Letters 7.3 (22) (1984): 27-35. Print.

Kelso, Sylvia. "Breaking Frames: The Elusive Science Fiction of Joanna Russ." Colloquy: Text Theory Critique 1 (1996). Print.

Landon, Brooks. "Eve at the End of the World: Sexuality and the Reversal of Expectations in Novels by Joanna Russ, Angela Carter, and Thomas Berger." Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature. Ed. Palumbo, Donald. Contribs. To Study of Science Fict. & Fantasy: 18. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986. 61-74. Print.

Law, Richard. "Science Fiction Women: Victims, Rebels, Heroes." Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of Eapscu. Ed. Hayward, Malcolm. N.p.: Eng. Assn. of the Pennsylvania State Colls. & Univ., 1983. 53-58. Print.

---. "Science Fiction Women: Victims, Rebels, Heroes." Patterns of the Fantastic. Ed. Hassler, Donald M. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1983. 11-20. Print.

Malmgren, Carl. "Meta-Sf: The Examples of Dick, Leguin, and Russ." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 43.1 (2002): 22-35. Print.

Martins, Susana S. "Revising the Future in the Female Man." Science Fiction Studies 32.3 [97] (2005): 405-22. Print.

Murphy, Patrick D. "'Gender Politics': Epithet or Accolade? Or, Feminist Sf and the Case of Joanna Russ." New York Review of Science Fiction 10 (1989): 1. Print.

---. "Suicide, Murder, Culture, and Catastrophe: Joanna Russ's We Who Are About to …." State of the Fantastic: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Fantastic Literature and Film. Ed. Ruddick, Nicholas. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy): 50. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992. 121-31. Print.

---. "The Left Hand of the Pilgrim: Joanna Russ's Contributions to Criticism." New York Review of Science Fiction 18 (1990): 1. Print.

Perry, Donna. "Joanna Russ." Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out. Ed. Perry, Donna. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1993. 287-311. Print.

Peterson, Alayne M. "Riders of the New Wave: The Feminist Science Fiction of Le Guin, Russ, and Tiptree." Womanhood in Anglophone Literary Culture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Perspectives. Ed. Hammerman, Robin. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2007. 210-44. Print.

Robinson, Sally. "The 'Anti-Logos Weapon': Multiplicity in Women's Texts." Contemporary Literature 29.1 (1988): 105-24. Print.

Rosinsky, Natalie M. "A Female Man? The 'Medusan' Humor of Joanna Russ." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 23.1 (1982): 31-36. Print.

Sargent, Lyman Tower. "A New Anarchism: Social and Political Ideas in Some Recent Feminist Eutopias." Women and Utopia. Eds. Barr, Marleen and Nicholas D. Smith. Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1983. 3-33. Print.

Sauter-Bailliet, Theresia. "Joanna Russ, the Female Man (1975)." Der Science-Fiction-Roman in Der Angloamerikanischen Literatur: Interpretationen. Ed. Heuermann, Hartmut. Düsseldorf: Bagel, 1986. 355-75. Print.

Sheldon, Rebekah. "Joanna Russ and the Murder of the Female Child: We Who Are About to…." Practicing Science Fiction: Critical Essays on Writing, Reading and Teaching the Genre. Eds. Hellekson, Karen, et al. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 183-96. Print.

---. "Reproductive Futurism and Feminist Rhetoric: Joanna Russ's We Who Are About to …." FEMSPEC: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Journal Dedicated to Critical and Creative Work in the Realms of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Surrealism, Myth, Folklore, and Other Supernatural Genres 10.1 (2009): 19-34. Print.

Shelton, Robert. "The Social Text as Body: Images of Health and Disease in Three Recent Feminist Utopias." Literature and Medicine 12.2 (1993): 161-77. Print.

Shinn, Thelma J. "Worlds of Words and Swords: Suzette Haden Elgin and Joanna Russ at Work." Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Weedman, Jane B. Lubbock: Texas Tech P, 1985. 207-22. Print.

Silbergleid, Robin. "Women, Utopia, and Narrative: Toward a Postmodern Feminist Citizenship." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 12.4 (1997): 156-77. Print.

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Spector, Judith. "The Functions of Sexuality in the Science Fiction of Russ, Piercy, and Le Guin." Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature. Ed. Palumbo, Donald. Contribs. To Study of Science Fict. & Fantasy: 18. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986. 197-207. Print.

Spencer, Kathleen L. "Rescuing the Female Child: The Fiction of Joanna Russ." Science Fiction Studies 17.2 [51] (1990): 167-87. Print.

Teslenko, Tatiana Nickolaievna. "Genre as Strategy: Feminist Utopian Discourse of the 1970s." Simon Fraser U, 2002. 3035-35. Vol. 62. Print.

Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer A. "The Play of Irony: Theatricality and Utopian Transformation in Contemporary Women's Speculative Fiction." Utopian Studies: Journal of the Society for Utopian Studies 13.1 (2002): 114-34. Print.

Willmer, J. Caissa. "Joanna Russ (1937- )." Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Eds. Pollack, Sandra, Denise D. Knight and Tucker Pamella Farley. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993. 481-89. Print.

Wills, Deborah. "The Madwoman in the Matrix: Joanna Russ's the Two of Them and the Psychiatric Postmodern." Modes of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Eds. Latham, Robert A. and Robert A. Collins. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy): 66. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995. 93-99. Print.

Comments

[heavenscalyx]

Mendelsohn, Farah, ed. On Joanna Russ. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan Press; 2009.

[ithiliana]

DANG, I've read that! I haz it! That's the book I plan to use WHEN I get to teach my Russ seminar (which I plan to do under our rubric of "Major American Authors" (I taught Pratchett under "Major British Authors") (I can get sf into ANYTHING!).

Awesome!