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JOANNA RUSS has published science-fiction novels, short stories, and criticism for thirty-five years and has been active as a feminist for twenty-five. Her books include The Female Man, The Two of Them, How to Suppress Women's Writing, and Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts: Feminist Essays.
Introduction | |
Author's Introduction | |
Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction | p. 3 |
Speculations: The Subjunctivity of Science Fiction | p. 15 |
SF and Technology as Mystification | p. 26 |
Amor Vincit Foeminam: The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction | p. 41 |
On the Fascination of Horror Stories, Including Lovecraft's | p. 60 |
A Boy and His Dog: The Final Solution | p. 65 |
What Can a Heroine Do? or Why Women Can't Write | p. 79 |
Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic | p. 94 |
On Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | p. 120 |
Recent Feminist Utopias | p. 133 |
To Write "Like a Woman": Transformations of Identity in the Work of Willa Cather | p. 149 |
On "The Yellow Wallpaper" | p. 159 |
Is "Smashing" Erotic? | p. 167 |
Letter to Susan Koppelman | p. 171 |
Index | p. 177 |
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