To Write Like a Woman
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Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction
Joanna Russ
overview
Joanna Russ has written extensively - as novelist, short story writer, and critic - on feminism, science fiction, and fantasy. These essays, spanning almost twenty years of that career, range from Russ's consideration of the aesthetic of science fiction to a reading of Willa Cather's lesbian identity as it emerges in her writing. To Write Like a Woman includes essays on horror stories and the supernatural: feminist utopias; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the "mother" of science fiction; popular literature for women (the "modern gothic"); what the fascination with "technology" often hides in popular culture, especially in science fiction movies and Star Trek; and the feminist education of graduate students in English. As a writer, Russ also addresses theorists and critics of literatureNas they address her own work and the work of other writers.
contents
Part One
1. Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction
2. Speculations: The Subjunctivity of Science Fiction
3. SF and Technology as Mystification
4. Amor Vincit Foeminam: The Battle of the Sexes in science Fiction
5. On the Fascination of Horror Stories, Including Lovecraft's
6. A Boy and His Dog: The Final Solution
Part Two
7. What Can a Heroine Do? or Why Women Can't Write
8. Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic
9. On mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
10. Recent Feminist Utopias
11. To Write "Like a Woman": Transformations of Identity in the Work of Willa Cather
12. On "The Yellow Wallpaper"
13. Is "Smashing" Erotic?
14. Letter to Susan Koppelman