Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts

A brief collection of feminist essays by Joanna Russ, most of them related to sexual fantasies and pornography.

Includes Russ’s autobiographical essay about figuring out that she was a lesbian (“Not for Years, but for Decades”), Russ’s influential discussion of Star Trek slash fiction (“Pornography by Women for Women, with Love”), and four other essays.

Most of these essays were individually published in feminist magazines in the early 1980s. This ebook is a reprint of the 1985 book that brought the essays together.