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And here, of course, we come to the one occupation of a female protagonist in literature, the one thing she can do, and by God she does it and does it and does it, over and over and over again.She is the ...

~ Joanna Russ ~

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Joanna RussTo Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction

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