Joanna RussTo Write Like a Woman
Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction
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.
Part One
1. Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction
2. Speculations: The Subjunctivity of Science Fiction
3. SF and Technology as Mystification
4. Amor Vincit Foeminam: The Battle of the Sexes in science Fiction
5. On the Fascination of Horror Stories, Including Lovecraft's
6. A Boy and His Dog: The Final Solution
Part Two
7. What Can a Heroine Do? or Why Women Can't Write
8. Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern
Gothic
9. On mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
10. Recent Feminist Utopias
11. To Write "Like a Woman": Transformations of Identity in the Work of
Willa Cather
12. On "The Yellow Wallpaper"
13. Is "Smashing" Erotic?
14. Letter to Susan Koppelman
