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Author Russ, Joanna, 1937-2011.

Title To write like a woman : essays in feminism and science fiction / Joanna Russ
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1995]
©1995

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Description xvi, 181 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction / Sarah Lefanu -- 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 -- 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Authorship -- Sex differences.
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Feminism and literature.
Feminist fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Gender identity in literature.
Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Sex role in literature.
Women and literature.
LC no. 95003576
ISBN 0253209838 (paperback: alk. paper)
0253329140 (cloth : alk. paper)