The Two of Them

The Two of Them
Author Joanna Russ
Cover artist Norm Walker
Country United States
Language English
Genre Science fiction
Publisher Berkley Books
Publication date
May 1978
Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages 226 pp
ISBN 0-399-12149-8 (hardcover)
OCLC 3516946
813/.5/4
LC Class PZ4.R9548 Tw PS3568.U763

The Two of Them is a feminist science fiction novel by Joanna Russ. It was first published in 1978 in the United States by Berkley Books and in Great Britain by The Women's Press in 1986. It was last reissued in 2005 by the Wesleyan University Press with a foreword by Sarah LeFanu.

Plot

Irene, a female galactic agent, rescues a young woman, Zubeydeh, from a male-dominant culture of a colonized planet, Ala-ed-deen, where women are kept in purdah.

...shivers generically between telling the realistic story of oppression -and escape- of a young woman brought up on a planet whose religion of remniscent of Islam, and deconstructing this generic material into the embittered dreams of a woman trapped on Earth
John Clute, "The Two of Them", from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction[1]

References

Notes
  1. Clute and Nicholls 1995, p. 1035.
Bibliography
  • Clute, John and Peter Nicholls. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1993 (2nd edition 1995). ISBN 0-312-13486-X.
  • Cortiel, Jeanne. "Demand My Writing: Joanna Russ/Feminism/Science Fiction" in Science Fiction Texts and Studies. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 1999. pp. 64–70, 104-121. ISBN 0-85323-614-3.
  • Spencer, Kathleen L. "Rescuing the Female Child: The Fiction of Joanna Russ" Science Fiction Studies 17.2 (1990): pp. 167–187.

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