Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part One: Agency
• Introduction to Part One
• Chapter One: The Act of Telling: Who is the Subject of Narrative Action?
• Chapter Two: Acts of Violence: Representations of Androcide
• Chapter Three: The Revolutionary Act: A Dialectic of Sex/Gender in 'The Female Man'
• Part Two: Sexuality
• Introduction to Part Two
• Chapter Four: Author-izing the Female: Women Loving Women Loving Women
• Chapter Five: Patterns of Innocence: The Rescue of the Female Child
• Chapter Six: Lesbian existence: Impossible Dreams of Exteriority
• Part Three: Indeterminacy
• Introduction to Part Three
• Chapter Seven: Patterns of Experience: Sappho and the Erotics of the Generation Gap
• Chapter Eight: The Great, Grand Palimpsest of Me: Fragmented Locations and Identities
• Chapter Nine: Vampires, Cyborgs and Disguises: Politics of the Theatrical
• Notes
• Primary Bibliography
• Secondary Bibliography
• Index of Names
• Index of Novels and Short Stories by Joanna Russ

About the Author

Prof. Dr. Jeanne Cortiel is Professor of American Studies at the University of Bayreuth.

Reviews

Jeanne Cortiel offers a single author study of Joanna Russ's works in the context on the history of late-twentieth-century feminism. The book is well written and elegantly argued ...
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