Joanna Russ, R. I. P.

Sweet Freedom: Joanna Russ died this morning.: "She had had a stroke or a series of strokes, perhaps as long ago as February, announced publicly earlier this week. She was a great writer, and one who had found her chronic back problems had kept her from much formal writing in the last decade or so...her last book of essentially new material, What Are We Fighting For?, Sex, Race, Class, and the Future of Feminism, was published by St. Martin's in 1998; her collection of literary essays and book reviews, The Country You Have Never Seen, was published in 2007 by Liverpool University Press."