Joanna Russ
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gwynnegaJoanna Russ has been admitted to hospice after a series of strokes.
Joanna Russ's work has been important to me for such a long time. I think I was still in my teens when I first read her How To Suppress Women's Writing, and I suspect I know much of it by heart. (I remember showing this book to a (white male) writer friend of my dad's when I was in college, and he, no lie, threw the book to the ground!)
It's hard to imagine losing such an utterly irreplaceable writer and thinker.
Joanna Russ's work has been important to me for such a long time. I think I was still in my teens when I first read her How To Suppress Women's Writing, and I suspect I know much of it by heart. (I remember showing this book to a (white male) writer friend of my dad's when I was in college, and he, no lie, threw the book to the ground!)
It's hard to imagine losing such an utterly irreplaceable writer and thinker.
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Date: 2011-04-29 06:40 am (UTC)I love How to Suppress Women's Writing but for some reason I've never read anything else of hers. I need to do something about that.
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