RIP, Joanna Russ

[nancylebov]

In How to Suppress Women's Writing, she asked of "good literature"-- "good for who? good for what?"

This is from memory, but it's a bit of cognitive therapy that I only needed to read once for it to stay with me.

Comments

[captain-button.livejournal.com]

Does this come up in the standard flamewars about if literary quality has any objective meaning? I don't recall it off hand, but I generally skim over those.

[captain-button.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear about her passing.

[infintysquared.livejournal.com]

*ahem*

PREACH IT, SISTER. I dearly love this quote, and I shall fondly steal it for my own use. Thank you.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I haven't read them in any great detail, but I haven't especially seen it in play.