Russ was a notable feminist writer in science fiction in the early 1970s, a time when women were just starting to enter the field. It is not too much of an exaggeration to say that science fiction has often been a genre of, by and for adolescent boys of all ages. Russ was one author whose work was a direct challenge to that mentality.
A prominent example is her novel, We Who Are About To. It is a stunning variation on an old science fiction theme: a group of space travelers marooned on an uninhabited planet decide that they must form a colony and "propagate the species". One of the castaways is a woman who has no particular desire to be part of such an effort. When the others try to force her to be part of the colony, she rebels.
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