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Category: Joanna Russ

Joanna Russ, How to Suppress Women’s Writing

This excellent book is the missing link (though obviously it hasn’t been missing at all to those who’ve known it for thirty years), between Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, and Mary Beard’s Women & Power. Published in 1983, it is a perfect blend of feminist insight and great intellectual clarity, and is a … Continue reading Joanna Russ, How to Suppress Women’s Writing →

Kate 20thC, Joanna Russ, literary history, Mary Beard, middlebrow studies, political / social commentary, the world of work, Virginia Woolf 2 Comments May 23, 2018May 22, 2018

Ian Sales, All That Outer Space Allows

I don’t know Ian Sales, but for about a year I’ve been sending him some of my posts about female-authored sf for him to repost in his sfmistressworks site. Then suddenly, out of the blue, he blurts out on Twitter that the fourth of his Apollo Quartet novels is in the 2015 Tiptree Award Honor … Continue reading Ian Sales, All That Outer Space Allows →

Kate 21stC, Alice B Sheldon, biography, drinking, Ian Sales, Joanna Russ, literary history, passion and secrets, political / social commentary, science, science fiction, the life of the times, Ursula Le Guin, Vonda McIntyre Leave a comment May 11, 2016May 10, 2016

Letters to Tiptree: homage to a ground-breaking author

Update: On 25 September 2016 Letters to Tiptree won the British Fantasy Award for best non-fiction. Well deserved! If you’ve not heard of James Tiptree Jr, the acclaimed author of science fiction short stories and a handful of novels, he was active from 1967 to the late 1980s. He also wrote as Raccoona Sheldon, and … Continue reading Letters to Tiptree: homage to a ground-breaking author →

Kate 21stC, Alice B Sheldon, biography, book prizes, Brit Mandelo, fantasy, Gwyneth Jones, humour, James Tiptree Jr, Joanna Russ, Karen Joy Fowler, Karen Miller, L Timmel Duchamp, letters, literary history, memoirs / diaries, Michael Swanwick, Nicola Griffith, passion and secrets, Pat Murphy, political / social commentary, Raccoona Sheldon, science fiction, the life of the times, the world of work, Ursula Le Guin, Vonda McIntyre 1 Comment April 22, 2016September 26, 2016
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