Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ
Joanna Russwas an American writer, academic and radical feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny. She is best known for The Female Man, a novel combining utopian fiction and satire...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 February 1937
CountryUnited States of America
contrary faith turns usual
Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.
fiction science-fiction women-in-science
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.
class racist way
To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.
taken garden each-day
... chastity is not given once and for all like a wedding ring that is put on never to be taken off, but is a garden which each day must be weeded, watered, and trimmed anew, or soon there will be only brambles and wilderness.
toil withered
How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.
class use may
And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to express (and may very well operate to conceal).