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Joanna Russ

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There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.


— Joanna Russ


#male-gaze #science-fiction #women #science

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.


— Joanna Russ


#does #growth #marginal #margins #minority

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too." ["Existence" (1975)]


— Joanna Russ


#limitations #mind #thinking #imagination

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep.


— Joanna Russ


#earth #home #love #death

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.


— Joanna Russ


#contrary #faith #gambler #ideas #like






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She died early in the morning on April 29 2011. Delany was quoted as saying that Russ was “slipping away” and had long had a “Do Not Resuscitate” order on file. Though by then Joanna Russ was no longer an active member of science fiction fandom Joanna Russ was interviewed by phone during Wiscon (the feminist science fiction convention in Madison Wisconsin) in 2006 by her friend and member of the same cohort Samuel R.

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. Joanna Russ (February 22 1937 – April 29 2011) was an American writer academic and feminist. She is best known for The Female Man a novel combining utopian fiction and satire.

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