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Russ, Joanna

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Russ, Joanna (1937–), born in New York City, educated at Cornell and Yale, a career academic, is a committed feminist who writes experimental works exploring gay issues, ethics, politics. Most of her work is science fiction. It includes Picnic in Paradise (1968); And Chaos Died (1970); The Female Man (1975), probably her most critically noticed work; The Adventures of Alyx (1983); Extraordinary People (1984); and the polemic How To Suppress Women's Writing (1983).

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