紹介
Joanna Russ has written extensively - as novelist, short story writer, and critic - on feminism, science fiction, and fantasy. These essays, spanning almost twenty years of that career, range from Russ's consideration of the aesthetic of science fiction to a reading of Willa Cather's lesbian identity as it emerges in her writing. To Write Like a Woman includes essays on horror stories and the supernatural: feminist utopias; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the "mother" of science fiction; popular literature for women (the "modern gothic"); what the fascination with "technology" often hides in popular culture, especially in science fiction movies and Star Trek; and the feminist education of graduate students in English. As a writer, Russ also addresses theorists and critics of literatureNas they address her own work and the work of other writers.
目次
Part One 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 LovecraftOs 6. A Boy and His Dog: The Final Solution Part Two 7. What Can a Heroine Do? or Why Women CanOt Write 8. SomebodyOs Trying to Kill Me and I Think ItOs My Husband: The Modern Gothic 9. On mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 10. Recent Feminist Utopias 11. To Write oLike a WomanO: Transformations of Identity in the Work of Willa Cather 12. On oThe Yellow WallpaperO 13. Is oSmashingO Erotic? 14. Letter to Susan Koppelman
