"How to Torpedo Women's Writing" by Joanna Russ, writing against male censorship

It's a book of rage and score-settling, which comes to us forty years later. How to Torpedo Women's Writing was published in 1983 in the United States, and is being translated into French for the first time by Zones. This classic of feminist literature is part of a rediscovery of the American lesbian essayist and writer Joanna Russ (1937-2011). In quick succession, over the course of two years, three of her books were published. The first, The Female Man, first published in France in 1977 by Robert Laffont (in the "Ailleurs et demain" collection) under the title The Other Half of Man, was republished in 2023 in a revised translation by Mnémos, becoming L'Humanité-Femme. This feminist utopia, which sold half a million copies ten years after its release in 1975, is a "satire of proven causticity, fundamentally progressive," according to preface writer Stéphanie Nicot. Four women named Janet, Joanna, Jeannine, and Jael, alternate personalities of one another across time and the multiverse, will join forces to fight against male supremacy.

We then had access, at the beginning of 2024, thanks to Cambourakis editions, to the fascinating Feminist Exoplanet