Joanna Russ

A science fiction writer and critic whose novel The Female Man used satire and utopian fiction to interrogate what women's lives could look like under different social arrangements, and whose critical study How to Suppress Women's Writing catalogued the specific rhetorical moves used to dismiss women authors across literary history. She wrote across fiction, criticism, and a children's book, building a career that treated feminist argument as a proper subject for literature rather than a departure from it.