Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ was an American writer, academic and feminist. 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. She is best known for The Female Man, a novel combining utopian fiction and satire, and the story "When It Changed".
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Yale School of DramaCornell University
- Awards
- 🏆 Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame🏆 Otherwise Retrospective Award🏆 Hugo Award for Best Novella🏆 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
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Trending topics shown first"“Rational people,” said the man, “realize that their lives must be made meaningful. Meaning isn’t just given us."
"Only those who have reviewed, year in and year out, know how truly abominable most fiction is."
"Anyway everyboy knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be M…"
"Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails."
"The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too."
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Timeline
1937
Born
Birth2011
Died
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