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Joanna Russ (1937–2011)

Auteur van De vrouw-man

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Joanna Russ was born in New York City on February 22, 1937. She received a degree in English from Cornell University in 1957 and a MFA in playwriting from the Yale Drama School in 1960. She taught at various colleges and universities during her lifetime including a long stint at the University of toon meer Washington in Seattle. She was a critic and science fiction writer best known for books of criticism such as The Female Man (1975) and How to Suppress Women's Writing (1984) as well as the novel And Chaos Died (1970). She died on April 29, 2011 at the age of 74. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Liz Henry

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Werken van Joanna Russ

De vrouw-man (1975) 2,174 exemplaren
How to Suppress Women's Writing (1983) 728 exemplaren
We Who Are About To . . . (1975) 572 exemplaren
Piknik op Paradijs (1968) 433 exemplaren
The Adventures of Alyx (1967) 412 exemplaren
And Chaos Died (1970) 392 exemplaren
The Two of Them (1978) 324 exemplaren
Extra(Ordinary) People (1984) 262 exemplaren
On Strike Against God (1980) 216 exemplaren
The Zanzibar Cat [collection] (1983) 213 exemplaren
The Hidden Side of the Moon (1988) 143 exemplaren
Radical Utopias (1990) 60 exemplaren
Kittatinny: A Tale of Magic (1978) — Auteur — 45 exemplaren
Souls {novella} (1982) 29 exemplaren
When It Changed [short story] (1972) 22 exemplaren
Woman Space: Future and Fantasy (1981) 13 exemplaren
Nobody's Home [short fiction] (1972) 13 exemplaren
Drie SF-romans — Medewerker — 5 exemplaren
The Adventuress [short story] (1967) 5 exemplaren
My Dear Emily 5 exemplaren
The Barbarian [novelette] (1968) 5 exemplaren
Mr. Wilde's Second Chance (1966) 4 exemplaren
Gleepsite [short story] (1971) 4 exemplaren
My Boat 3 exemplaren
The Little Dirty Girl (1985) 3 exemplaren
The Clichés from Outer Space (1984) 2 exemplaren
Bodies (1984) 2 exemplaren
Innocence 2 exemplaren
Sword Blades And Poppy Seed (1983) 2 exemplaren
Existence [short story] (1975) 2 exemplaren
Visiting [short story] (1967) 1 exemplaar
On Setting 1 exemplaar
This Afternoon [short story] (1968) 1 exemplaar
Come Closer [short story] (1965) 1 exemplaar
Window Dressing [short story] (1970) 1 exemplaar
The Throaways [short story] (1969) 1 exemplaar
Old Pictures [essay] (1973) 1 exemplaar
Elf Hill [short story] (1982) 1 exemplaar
Nor Custom Stale [short story] (1959) 1 exemplaar
Visiting Day [short story] (1970) 1 exemplaar
Daddy's Girl [short story] (1975) 1 exemplaar
The Experimenter [novelette] (1975) 1 exemplaar
Foul Fowl [short story] (1971) 1 exemplaar

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THE DEEP ONES: "My Dear Emily" by Joanna Russ in The Weird Tradition (februari 2021)
***The Female Man group read--spoiler thread in 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (mei 2011)
Joanna Russ, 1937 - 2011 in Science Fiction Fans (mei 2011)
Joanna Russ - stroke in Feminist SF (april 2011)
Joanna Russ in Feminist SF (juni 2008)

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Story: 1 / 10
Characters: 2
Setting: 3
Prose: 2

Literally, the worst book I've ever read [ Sin noticias de Gurb was the previous worst ]. A feminist science fiction book sounded interesting, mostly because the genre is dominated by male leads. However, The Female Man doesn't have a story at all. A lot of books will have no direction, but the story continues on nevertheless. However, Russ simply introduces a few characters and places without creating any events. The characters do not do anything. Compound that with a lot of jumping around and a critically-reflective narrator and the worst book ever written results.
Do not read unless paid...
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MXMLLN | 55 andere besprekingen | Jan 12, 2024 |
This is a complex and twisty book, and I got a lot more from it than I did on my first time reading it as a teenager. The sexual politics are fascinating and eerie, both achingly familiar and historically alien. Not for the literal reader.
 
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fred_mouse | 55 andere besprekingen | Jan 2, 2024 |
A woman from a possible future, in which Earth is called Whileaway, comes back to what was the modern day at the time of writing. It doesn't really fit in with her other famous short story set on Whileaway where Whileaway is another planet and has been free of men for centuries with the short story dealing with first contact when some men turn up in a spaceship. This novel is more fantastic than SF and features women who are the same character but from very different alternative realities - at least I think so!… (meer)
 
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kitsune_reader | 55 andere besprekingen | Nov 23, 2023 |
I read this ages ago, but someone reminded me that Jael's world has what are basically trans women living in the "male" space and the book treats them hideously. Like. They're presented as clearly women, and treated as women inside the male-only space, including being subject to abuse for being women, they're literally called "feminine", but they're not "real women". As soon as the main character women see a "half-changed", they get angry and hate them. The "changed and half-changed" are presented as horribly as possible. It's fucking vile. Like. Trans women were not totally unknown when Russ wrote this book. But she talks about them with a hatred that the men don't receive. Being a "half-man" is worse than being a "real man" to her, I guess.

The rest of the book has its moments and some deeply moving parts and it's incredibly personal but also often incredibly confusing because of the weird structure. It's very stereotypically second-wave feminist. Some of the ideas are good but I can't rate a book highly which has such a "Transexual Empire" vision of trans women.
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tombomp | 55 andere besprekingen | Oct 31, 2023 |

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