Joanna Russ (born February 22, 1937, New York City), born to teachers Evarett I. and Bertha Zinner Russis, is an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism and is best known for The Female Man, a novel combining utopian fiction and satire. It used the device of parallel worlds as a form of a mediation of the ways that different societies might produce ...
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Joanna Russ (born February 22, 1937, New York City), born to teachers Evarett I. and Bertha Zinner Russis, is an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism and is best known for The Female Man, a novel combining utopian fiction and satire. It used the device of parallel worlds as a form of a mediation of the ways that different societies might produce very different versions of the same person, and how all might interact and respond to sexism.
Russ has been creating works of fiction since a very early age. For example, a five year old Russ had a short story called "Bubble Land," complete with illustrations, dictated by an unknown person onto notebook paper. Over the following years the young Russ filled countless notebooks with stories, poems, comics and illustrations, often hand-binding the material with thread.
Russ graduated from Cornell University, where she studied with Vladimir...
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