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  Joanna Russ - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joanna Russ (born February 22, 1937), American writer, is the author of a number of works of science fiction (among other sorts of writing), including The Female Man, a meditation on how differing societies might produce very different versions of the same person, and how all might interact, particularly in the face of sexism.
Russ was a notable feminist writer in science fiction in the early 1970s, a time when women were starting to enter the field in larger numbers.
It can be said that science fiction was a field dominated by male authors, often thought to be writing for a predominantly male audience; by contrast Russ was one of the most outspoken authors to challenge male dominance.
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 Joanna Russ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Joanna Russ (born February 22 1937) is the author of a number works of science fiction including The Female Man a meditation on how scientific advances change the roles of men and women society.
Russ was a notable feminist writer in science fiction in the 1970s a time when women were just to enter the field in larger numbers.
Joanna Russ is a big name in feminist science fiction for a reason: she was one of the first big radical noisemakers in a predominantly male world.First does not always mean best, and even best does not necessarily mean great.I'm sure that die hard femini...
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 SF20 : bio: russ
Joanna Russ, born in 1937, is credited by critics with being the writer who brought lesbian and feminist issues into science fiction.
Russ applies feminist theory in her novels--as well as in her non-fiction pieces--to criticize the undue influence of men on society.
Russ characterizes herself as a lesbian, but she feels that the culture definitions that she must "fit into" are too narrow to define her individuality.
www.psu.edu /dept/scifi/bio_russ.shtml   (857 words)

  
 Feminist SFF & Utopia: Reviews: Joanna Russ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Russ is an important figure in both feminist SF and New Wave SF; her novels are notable both for their strong feminist messages and their stylistic and narrative innovations.
Joanna has more choices than Jeannine, but she is still expected to orient herself around men and is constantly being told "women can't" or "women don't"....
Joanna wistfully calls Janet a woman "whom we don't believe in and whom we deride but who is in secret our savior from utter despair." Jael brings the other Js together in her world, a near future in which men and women wage a cold war.
www.feministsf.org /femsf/reviews/russ.j.html   (1049 words)

  
 Janna Russ: We Who Are About To Die
Russ' protaganist is not a particularly wise or likable character.
Russ' narrative is a plea for realism, and for a recognition that sometimes it is better to go gently into that goodnight.
Russ sees death not as the sudden endpoint of corporeal life, nor as the entry to some religious afterlife, but as a process that can teach us as much as anything else in life, if we allow ourselves to quiet down our frantic survival instincts and learn.
www.strangewords.com /archive/wewhoare.html   (519 words)

  
 Joanna Russ -- Joanna Russ (New York City, 22 februari 1937) is een feminist...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Joanna Russ -- Joanna Russ (New York City, 22 februari 1937) is een feminist...
Joanna Russ (New York City, 22 februari 1937) is een feministische, Amerikaanse sciencefiction schrijfster.
Russ was een van de vrouwen die rond die tijd in grotere aantallen SF begonnen te schrijven.
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 glbtq >> literature >> Russ, Joanna
Science fiction writer and critic Joanna Russ was born February 22, 1937, to Bertha Zinner and Evarett I. Russ, and grew up in the Bronx.
Russ received her B.A. with High Honors in English from Cornell University in June 1957, and her M.F.A. at Yale University School of Drama in June 1960.
Russ links her anger at inequality and her humor: "wit is a kind of rage, a form of hostility."
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 Joanna RUSS
Abbiamo il continuo "moralizzare" di Joanna, sempre molto attenta alle convenzioni di una realtà in cui i "ruoli" sono incredibilmente definiti al di là dell'ipocrisia di un'emancipazione solo apparente.
La Russ ben sottolinea i termini della questione femminile, che risiedono, più che nel contrasto sessista e sessuofobo, nella difficoltà di ridefinire un ruolo comunicativo attivo dell'universo femminile, in quel continuo atto linguistico che è la realtà del divenire delle cose.
Che la Russ insista sulle caratterizzazioni anti-femminili del linguaggio è evidente, a partire da quando ipotizza il mondo utopico di Whileaway, nella cui lingua ogni distinzione di genere perde significato rendendo invece evidente la mistificazione maschilista del linguaggio terrestre.
www.intercom.publinet.it /intercom/russ.htm   (1740 words)

  
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Joanna, based rather explicitly on Russ herself, is the product of our own "continuum." She is a college professor living in a late-'60s America that is historically recognizable to the reader.
As a successful professor of English, Joanna, the most autobiographical character in the text, has achieved the professional status that Jeannine can scarcely dream of, yet she feels torn between societal expectations that she be "feminine" and her intense pleasure in her work: I live between worlds.
For Russ, it appears, the course on which women had set themselves in the early days of the second wave was inextricably connected with a notion of "work." The female worker was, de facto, a feminist, and, conversely, the feminist was a female worker.
jefferson.village.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.599/9.3hicks.txt   (8191 words)

  
 Science Fiction and the Feminist Movement
Joanna Russ argues that science fiction allows a writer to peer into the future to tailor and highlight social, political, linguistic, cultural or gender issues and criticize current attitudes.
Russ found that few publishers were sympathetic to her approach and found it difficult to get her books taken seriously.
Joanna's world is the present and she has spent the majority of her energy looking for "The Man." Jeannine also lives in the present except that in her universe Hitler never took power, World War II never happened and The Great Depression never ended.
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 College of Humanities and Social
Joanna started taking classes at CMU in the fall of 2002, but was unhappy with the lack of activities to keep her engaged.
“Joanna was very interested in autism and severe disabilities, so I asked her to join my research team to study CHARGE Syndrome,” said Hartshorne, who was in the midst of conducting two simultaneous studies funded by the CHARGE Syndrome Foundation.
The Joanna Russ research and presentation grant is open to CMU students of all academic majors.
www.chsbs.cmich.edu /chsbs/scholarships/Russ.htm   (810 words)

  
 Classic Sci-Fi Reviews: The Female Man
Joanna is from modern Earth and is striving to find a feeling of personal self-worth that is difficult to attain in a male-dominated society.
She takes Janet, Joanna and Jeannine on a trip to her brutal world of separate male and female societies, hoping to impress Janet into allowing her to use Whileaway as a training camp for female soldiers.
The four female archetypes Russ creates are also powerfully delineated, and together Joanna, Jeannine, Janet and Jael remain four of the most memorable characters from 1970s SF.
www.scifi.com /sfw/issue66/classic.html   (599 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Female Man (Bluestreak)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Joanna is a 1970s feminist trying to make it in a man's world by being just like a man. Janet Evason, a traveler from Whileaway which has not been home to a man in over 800 years, suddenly appears on a Broadway sidewalk.
Russ and her peers didn't always write novels that were neat and orderly, and this one in particular can drive the close-minded insane.
Russ is a rebel, and at one point in the novel she even predicts the negative reaction of literary critics on her book and provides examples of the reviews she believed they would write.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0807062995?v=glance   (2009 words)

  
 Joanna Russ
Russ is also the author of such critical works as What Are We Fighting For?: Sex, Race, Class, and the Future of Feminism (1998), To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism, and Science Fiction (1995), and Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts: Feminist Essays (1985).
Russ meanwhile pursued her teaching career, teaching English at various universities, including Cornell University, SUNY at Binghamton, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Soon to be well known as a feminist, in 1969 Russ disclosed her identity as a lesbian.
www.nndb.com /people/553/000029466   (399 words)

  
 Joanna Russ
Russ addresses the place of women of color, lesbians, separatists, and socialists in the modern feminist movement, and offers practical suggestions for how women can get back to the real feminist fight.
One strength of the book for those who want to fill in the gaps in their knowledge of feminist history is that Russ is extremely well-read in her subject, and taken to extensively quoting the arguments and theories of other feminist thinkers.
Joanna Russ's classic 1970s SF novel features four women from alternative Earths that each have very different relations between the sexes.
www.queertheory.com /histories/r/russ_joanna.htm   (821 words)

  
 Joanna Russ - Freepedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Joanna Russ (born February 22, 1937) is the author of a number of works of science fiction, including The Female Man, a meditation on how scientific advances could change the roles of men and women in society.
Russ was a notable feminist writer in science fiction in the early 1970s, a time when women were just starting to enter the field in larger numbers.
It can be fairly said that science fiction was (and to an extent is) a genre dominated by male authors, often writing for a predominantly male audience, however Russ was one of the first authors to challenge the male dominance.
en.freepedia.org /Joanna_Russ.html   (197 words)

  
 Joanna Russ - Feministische phantastisch-utopische Literatur
Russ studierte Englisch an der Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (B.A. 1957) und Theaterwissenschaften an der Yale University of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut (M.F.A. 1963 heiratete sie Albert Amateau, die Ehe wurde bereits 1967 wieder geschieden.
Russ outete sich 1969, was auch das Thema ihres Nicht-SF-Romans On Strike Against God (1980) war.
Joanna Russ (1975) Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction.
www.feministische-sf.de /einzelne_autorinnen/fsf_joanna-russ.html   (605 words)

  
 Joanna Russ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Joanna Russ (born February 22, 1937) is the author of a number of works of sciencefiction, including TheFemale Man, a meditation on how scientific advances could change the roles of men and women in society.
It can befairly said that science fiction was (and to an extent is) a genre dominated by male authors, often writing for a predominantlymale audience, however Russ was one of the first authors to challenge the male dominance.
A prominent example is her novel, We Who Are About To, a clever variation on an established science fiction theme: agroup of space travelers marooned on an uninhabited planet decide that they must form a colony and "propagate the species".
www.therfcc.org /joanna-russ-125666.html   (197 words)

  
 Bio for Joanna Russ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Born in New York, Joanna Russ was educated at Cornell University and Yale University.
She held many positions as a lecturer in speech, assistant professor of English, and professor of English at the University of Washington.
Combining a feminist'perspective and a sophisticated style in writing science fiction novels, Joanna has become the recipient of the Nebula Awards, Hugo Award, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in 1974-75.
www.femspec.org /bios/joannaruss.htm   (101 words)

  
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 reVIEW : Fleisher
Joanna Russ's How to Suppress Women's Writing (University of Texas Press, 1983) once saved my life.
How to utilize this book: 1) Put it on your shelf if you loved The Female Man, are a die-hard Russ fan, and must own every word she has ever scribbled.
In 1997, the bulk of innovative writing by women remains either impressionistic or experiential: we talk either about how we experience life, or what (narrative) in life we have experienced.
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 To Write Like a Woman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Russ continues to debunk and demand, edify and entertain.
Appreciative of surface aesthetics, she continually delves deeper than most critics, yet in terms so simple and accessible that her essays read like lively, angry, humorous dialogues conducted face-to-face with the author.
Russ is the antithesis of the distant critic in her ivory tower."
www.indiana.edu /~iupress/books/0-253-20983-8.shtml   (153 words)

  
 epilog Buch - Joanna Russ: Eine Weile entfernt (The Female Man, 1975)
Russ nutzt für ihren utopischen Entwurf einen eleganten Zeitreisetrick, einen Wechsel in Parallelwelten.
Wenn diese vier einander in den unverständigen Realitäten unserer Welt begegnen, ist nichts mehr wie zuvor.
Russ liefert keine hausbackene Handlung, sondern einen höchst elektrischen Patchwork-Text, geschult an der blendenden Dekadenz des New Wave (für ihre dem Roman zugrunde liegende Erzählung When It Changed erhielt sie 1972 den Nebula-Award): Eine Weile entfernt ist gnadenlos sezierend, höchst amüsant, hitzköpfig, hoffnungsfroh und gar nicht so versteckt didaktisch.
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 9th Circuit Opinion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Russ moved under Rule 41(a)(2) to dismiss the action with-
stating that it was to enable Russ to refile the same claims in
Russ filed suit in Arizona Superior Court on August 28,
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 Rep. Russ Stilwell :: Biographical Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Russ Stilwell was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives in his first attempt at public office in 1996.
Russ and his wife Joanna, a self-employed small business owner, reside in Boonville.
A third-generation coal miner, Russ was drafted into the U.S. armed forces shortly after his High School years.
www.state.in.us /h74/bio.html   (325 words)

  
 Article Abstracts: #65
The novel functions as what Monique Wittig calls a "literary war machine" because it tries "to pulverize the old forms and formal conventions." Specifically, Russ critiques the "straight mind"--heterosexual institutions that regulate gender--by showing how two representatives from "our world" respond to those institutions.
She also shows two alternative worlds that further undermine, but do not solve, the way heterosexual institutions regulate gender.
Of these, the most successful is language, which allows women to kill the myth of Woman and to abolish the class of women.
www.depauw.edu /sfs/abstracts/a65.htm   (845 words)

  
 UPNE | The Two of Them
The Two of Them is informed throughout by her intelligence, wit and imagination…by her vision of the pertinence and necessity of speculative fiction to feminists.” —; Marilyn Hacker, author of Desesperanto
“Joanna Russ is one of the pioneers and luminaries of women’s science fiction…; Russ is chronically angry about what happens to women, but she digs deep into her anger and comes up with a rich and lively tale.”—Ms.
JOANNA RUSS is a prolific author who is universally regarded as one of the finest science fiction novelists of the past 50 years.
www.upne.com /0-8195-6760-4.html   (389 words)

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