Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ
Joanna Russwas an American writer, academic and radical feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny. She is best known for The Female Man, a novel combining utopian fiction and satire...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 February 1937
CountryUnited States of America
writing adventure men
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.
fiction science-fiction women-in-science
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.
hair ill-health tragedy
I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.