High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Joanna Russ (February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011) was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women`s Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children`s book, Kittatinny. She is best known for The Female Man, a novel combining utopian fiction and satire.