— Joanna Russ, libro El hombre hembra
The Female Man
Fecha de nacimiento: 22. Febrero 1937
Fecha de muerte: 29. Abril 2011
Otros nombres: جوانا روس, ג'ואנה ראס
Joanna Russ fue una escritora, académica y feminista radical estadounidense. Es la autora de varias obras de ciencia ficción, fantasía y crítica literaria feminista como How to Suppress Women's Writing. Su obra más célebre es El hombre hembra, una novela que combina sátira y ficción utópica, que puede leerse como novela, así como en su calidad de texto teórico. Wikipedia
— Joanna Russ, libro El hombre hembra
The Female Man
— Joanna Russ, libro El hombre hembra
The Female Man
„As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.
But the frogs die in earnest.“
— Joanna Russ, libro El hombre hembra
Part 8, Chapter 10 (p. 196)
Fuente: Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
— Joanna Russ, libro How to Suppress Women's Writing
Fuente: How to Suppress Women's Writing
— Joanna Russ, libro El hombre hembra
Part 9, Chapter 4 (p. 206)
Fuente: Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
Contexto: Remember: I didn’t and don’t want to be a “feminine” version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.
What future is there for a female child who aspires to being Humphrey Bogart?
„Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.“
— Joanna Russ, libro How to Suppress Women's Writing
Fuente: How to Suppress Women's Writing
killing people is bad
"Books" (review column), The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1968
Non-fiction
Fuente: Fiction, And Chaos Died (1970), Chapter 3 (p. 155)
Part 8, Chapter 8 (pp. 181-182)
Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
Fuente: Fiction, And Chaos Died (1970), Chapter 3 (p. 120)
„I told him to open his eyes, that I didn’t want to kill him with his eyes shut, for God’s sake.“
Part 8, Chapter 8 (p. 181)
Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
„There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.“
Part 4, Chapter 8 (p. 61)
Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
„Dismissing the whole thing as the world’s aberration and not mine, I went back to bed.“
Part 2, Chapter 8 (p. 25)
Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
„He wished his imagination would not take so impressionistic a turn. It never fails.“
Fuente: Fiction, And Chaos Died (1970), Chapter 3 (p. 110)
Part 7, Chapter 1 (p. 137)
Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
„How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.“
Part 2, Chapter 5 (p. 22)
Fiction, The Female Man (1975)