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

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 ...Science Fiction Studies

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart One: AgencyIntroduction to Part OneChapter One: The Act of Telling: Who is the Subject of Narrative Action?Chapter Two: Acts of Violence: Representations of AndrocideChapter Three: The Revolutionary Act: A Dialectic of Sex/Gender in 'The Female Man'Part Two: SexualityIntroduction to Part TwoChapter Four: Author-izing the Female: Women Loving Women Loving WomenChapter Five: Patterns of Innocence: The Rescue of the Female ChildChapter Six: Lesbian existence: Impossible Dreams of ExteriorityPart Three: IndeterminacyIntroduction to Part ThreeChapter Seven: Patterns of Experience: Sappho and the Erotics of the Generation GapChapter Eight: The Great, Grand Palimpsest of Me: Fragmented Locations and IdentitiesChapter Nine: Vampires, Cyborgs and Disguises: Politics of the TheatricalNotesPrimary BibliographySecondary BibliographyIndex of NamesIndex of Novels and Short Stories by Joanna Russ