Joanna Russ

Joanna Russ's On Strike Against God is remarkable for its deft intertwining of many themes: not only the overt one of coming out, but many intricately (and inevitably) interlaced stories of alienation, a search for community and rebellion against how our society defines women.

It has influenced William Gibson and been listed as one of the ten essential works of science fiction. Most importantly, Joanna Russ's THE FEMALE MAN is a suspenseful, surprising and darkly witty chronicle of what happens when Jeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jael—four alternative selves from drastically different realities—meet.

By the author of The Female Man, a provocative survey of the forces that work against women who dare to write. "She didn't write it. She wrote it but she shouldn't have. She wrote it but look what she wrote about. She wrote it but she isn't really an artist, and it isn't really art. She wrote it but she had help. She wrote it but she's an anomaly. She wrote it BUT..." How to Suppress Women's Writing is a meticulously researched and humorously written "guidebook" to the many ways women and other "minorities" have been barred from producing written art. In chapters entitled "Prohibitions," "Bad Faith," "Denial of Agency," Pollution of Agency," "The Double Standard of Content," "False Categorization," "Isolation," "Anomalousness," "Lack of Models," Responses," and "Aesthetics" Joanna Russ names, defines, and illustrates those barriers to art-making we may have felt but which tend to remain unnamed and thus insolvable.

En 'Cómo acabar con la escritura de las mujeres', la galardonada novelista y ensayista Joanna Russ expone las estrategias sutiles, y no tan sutiles, que la sociedad usa para ignorar, condenar o menospreciar a las mujeres que producen literatura. Publicada originalmente en 1983 y nunca traducida al español, esta obra, tan relevante hoy como entonces, ha motivado a generaciones de lectores con su poderosa crítica feminista. Con un tono sarcástico e irreverente, Russ examina las fuerzas que sistemáticamente impiden un amplio reconocimiento del trabajo creativo de las mujeres. Exhaustiva sin ser aburrida y seria sin carecer de sentido del humor, esta edición cuenta con un nuevo prólogo de Jessa Crispin, autora de 'Por qué no soy feminista: un manifiesto feminista'.