Essays about: "Joanna Russ"

Found 2 essays containing the words Joanna Russ.

1. 1. "Humanity is Unnatural!" Feminisms and Science-Fiction Strategies in Joanna Russ’s The Female Man and The Adventures of Alyx

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Lauri Lahtinen; [2018]
   Keywords : Joanna Russ; Science fiction; Feminism; The Female Man; The Adventures of Alyx;

   Abstract : While acknowledging that Russ’s work is problematic in some regards, the aim of this thesis is to counter the criticism of Russ’s oeuvre as outdated and sometimes stuck in second-wave feminist positions, instead demonstrating how Russ’s use of sci-fi strategies such as cyborgism, possible-worlds theory, utopianism, and concretised metaphors in The Female Man and The Adventures of Alyx enables her to move beyond second-wave feminist positions and anticipate third-wave feminism in ways that are still relevant today. . READ MORE

3. 2. We who are about to... : FEMALE CHARACTERS IN SCIENCE FICTION REPRESENTING WOMEN’S STRUGGLE AGAINST MALE OPPRESSION

   University essay from Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT)

   Author : Marlene Schmidt; [2013]
   Keywords : Science fiction; Women writers;

   Abstract : This essay uses feminist theory to examine whether the female narrator in Joanna Russ science fiction novel We who are about to… can be viewed as a personification of women’s struggle against an oppressive male society. The thesis of the essay is that the female narrator’s struggle against the male oppressors in the novel represents the struggle for women’s rights in Western society. READ MORE