Feminist Utopias

Author : Alexandra Brodsky,Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781558619012

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The Feminist Utopia Project by Alexandra Brodsky,Rachel Kauder Nalebuff Pdf

This “incredible addition to the feminist canon” brings together the most inspiring, creative, and courageous voices concerning modern women’s issues (Jessica Valenti, editor of Yes Means Yes). In this groundbreaking collection, more than fifty cutting-edge feminist writers—including Melissa Harris-Perry, Janet Mock, Sheila Heti, and Mia McKenzie—invite us to imagine a world of freedom and equality in which: An abortion provider reinvents birth control . . . The economy values domestic work . . . A teenage rock band dreams up a new way to make music . . . The Constitution is re-written with women’s rights at the fore . . . The standard for good sex is raised with a woman’s pleasure in mind . . . The Feminist Utopia Project challenges the status quo that accepts inequality and violence as a given, “offering playful, earnest, challenging, and hopeful versions of our collective future in the form of creative nonfiction, fiction, visual art, poetry, and more” (Library Journal).

Author : Frances Bartkowski
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803260911

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Feminist Utopias by Frances Bartkowski Pdf

The utopias envisioned by Edward Bellamy and other novelists late in the nineteenth century were generally blueprints of government. As satellites of men, women were expected to share in the general improvement of society. The resurgence of the feminist movement since the late 1960s has produced a very different kind of utopian literature. Frances Bartkowski explores a body of work that is striking and vital because it reflects the hopes, fears, and desires of women who have glimpsed the possibilities of a bright new world freed from stifling patriarchal structures. Feminist Utopias is a comparative study of the utopian fiction of nine women writers in the United States, France, and Canada. Except for Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915), the prototype for feminist literary utopias, all of the works were published between 1969 and 1986. Bartkowski discusses Monique Wittig's Les Guérillères, Joanna Russ's The Female Man, Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time, Suzy McKee Charnas's Motherlines, Christine Rochefort's Archaos, ou le jardin étincelant, E. M. Broner's A Weave of Women, Louky Bersianik's The Eugelionne, and two dystopian novels, Charnas's Walk to the End of the World and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid’s Tale.

Author : Libby Falk Jones,Sarah McKim Webster Goodwin
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0870496360

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Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative by Libby Falk Jones,Sarah McKim Webster Goodwin Pdf

Author : Lucy Sargisson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134767663

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Contemporary Feminist Utopianism by Lucy Sargisson Pdf

A new and challenging entry into the debates between feminism and postmodernism, Contemporary Feminist Utopianism challenges some basic preconceptions about the role of political theory today. Sargisson explores current debates within utopian studies, feminist theory and poststructuralist deconstruction. Utopian thinking is offered as a route out of the dilemma of contemporary feminism as well as a way of conceptualizing its current situation. This book provides an exploration of, and exercise in, utopian thought.

Author : Alkeline van Lenning,Marrie Bekker,Ine Vanwesenbeeck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X006048557

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Feminist Utopias in a Postmodern Era by Alkeline van Lenning,Marrie Bekker,Ine Vanwesenbeeck Pdf

There is a respectable feminist tradition in utopian thought. Dreams and fantasies about gender-equal, women-friendly or female-dominated worlds have been formulated abundantly. However, utopian thinking has also met with severe criticism. By definition, utopias were said to be too idealistic, and of little use in the process of societal change. More recently, it has been stressed that the concept of utopia has been superseded by postmodern awareness, in which general explanations of gender inequality (and, along with them, general utopian views) are disqualified to the benefit of more local and more specific theories. In this book, the reader will find not one general, broadly defined utopia, but instead, a wide array of more or less specific, feminist utopias. Utopias are viewed as preliminary and imaginary goals from which present situations can be revalued and from which strategies for change can be developed. As such, utopias have not lost their significance.

Author : Tatiana Teslenko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135885168

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Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s by Tatiana Teslenko Pdf

This book presents an exploration of the reinvented utopia that provided second-wave feminists of the 1970s with a conceptual space to articulate the politics of change. Tatiana Teslenko argues that utopian fiction of this decade offered a means of validating the personal as well as the political, and of criticizing a patriarchal social order. Teslenko reveals feminists' attempt through fiction to envision a new political order.

Author : Erin McKenna
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781461666608

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The Task of Utopia by Erin McKenna Pdf

At their best, both American pragmatism and utopianism are about hope. Both encourage people to think about the future as a guide to understanding the past and forming the present. Just as pragmatism has often been misunderstood as valueless instrumentalism, utopianism has been limited to dreams of a static perfect world. In this book, Erin McKenna argues that utopian vision informed by pragmatism results in a process model of utopia that can help form the future based on critical intelligence. Using John Dewey's works with feminist theory and literature, McKenna develops this pragmatist feminist model of utopia.

Author : Christine Forde
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087903220

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Feminist Utopianism & Education by Christine Forde Pdf

This book looks to feminist utopian thinking to seek alternative conceptualisations of the issue of gender and education.

Author : Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107038356

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Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions by Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor Pdf

Covering a range of texts from prominent feminist writers, this book examines notions of utopia in twenty-first-century speculative literature.

Author : Judith A. Little
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015070748952

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Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction by Judith A. Little Pdf

Using selections from writers like Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Karen Joy Fowler, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Tiptree jr., and many others, this collection shows how the imagined worlds of science fiction create hold experiments for testing feminist hypotheses and for interpreting philosophical questions about humanity, gender, equality and more. Four main themes: Part 1, 'Human nature and reality', concentrates on whether there is an intrinsic difference between males and females. Part 2, 'Dystopias: the worst of all possible worlds', portrays misogynistic societies uncomfortably familiar to the early 21st-century reader. Part 3, 'Separatist utopias: worlds of difference', assembles stories that scrutinize both the virtues and vices of separatism. In Part 4, 'Androgynous utopias: worlds of equality', the authors create worlds that anticipate the consequences, good and bad, of perfect sexual equality in education, intelligence, capability, and reproduction.

Author : Gregory Claeys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828420

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The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature by Gregory Claeys Pdf

Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' nature of the concept of utopia. The reader is provided with a balanced overview of the evolution and current state of a long-standing, rich tradition of historical, political and literary scholarship.

Author : Qingyun Wu
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815626231

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Female Rule in Chinese and English Literary Utopias by Qingyun Wu Pdf

Works examined include Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen, Luo Maodeng's Sanbao's Expedition to the Western Ocean, Florence Dixie's Gloriana, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, Ursula K. LeGuin's The Dispossessed, Chen Duansheng's The Destiny of the Next Life, Li Ruzhen's The Flowers in the Mirror, and Bai Hua's The Remote Country of Women. This critical view of the development of feminist utopias in both the East and West will be of interest to scholars of women's studies, political science, and anthropology as well as to those in literature for both the classical and modern periods.

Author : Marge Piercy
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780449000946

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Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy Pdf

Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures—and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before. Connie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the streets of New York. Once ambitious and proud, she has lost her child, her husband, her dignity—and now they want to take her sanity. After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a time of sexual and racial equality, environmental purity, and unprecedented self-actualization. But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a society of grotesque exploitation in which the barrier between person and commodity has finally been eroded. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow. Praise for Woman on the Edge of Time “This is one of those rare novels that leave us different people at the end than we were at the beginning. Whether you are reading Marge Piercy’s great work again or for the first time, it will remind you that we are creating the future with every choice we make.”—Gloria Steinem “An ambitious, unusual novel about the possibilities for moral courage in contemporary society.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “A stunning, even astonishing novel . . . marvelous and compelling.”—Publishers Weekly “Connie Ramos’s world is cuttingly real.”—Newsweek “Absorbing and exciting.”—The New York Times Book Review

Author : Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107245235

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Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions by Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor Pdf

This study examines feminist speculative fiction from the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, and finds within it a new vision for the future. Rejecting notions of postmodern utopia as exclusionary, Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor advances one defined in terms of hospitality, casting what she calls 'imaginative sympathy' as the foundation of utopian desire. Tracing these themes through the works of Atwood, Butler, Lessing and Winterson, as well as those of well-known Muslim feminists such as El Saadawi, Parsipur and Mernissi, Wagner-Lawlor balances literary analysis with innovative extensions of feminist philosophy to show how inclusionary utopian thinking can inform and promote political agency. Examining these contemporary fictions reveals the rewards of attending to a community that acknowledges difference, diversity and the imaginative potential of every human being.

Author : Christine Filippone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351549820

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"Science, Technology, and Utopias " by Christine Filippone Pdf

The rise of proxy wars, the Space Race, and cybernetics during the Cold War marked science and technology as vital sites of social and political power. Women artists, historically excluded from these domains, responded critically, while simultaneously redeploying the products of "Technological Society" into works that promoted ideals of progress and alternative concepts of human community. In this innovative book, author Christine Filippone offers the first focused examination of the conceptual use of science and technology by women artists during and just after the women?s movement. She argues that artists Alice Aycock, Agnes Denes, Martha Rosler and Carolee Schneemann used science and technology to mount a critique on Cold War American society as they saw it?conservative and constricting. Motivated by the contemporary American Women?s Movement, these artists transformed science and technology into new modes of artmaking that transgressed modernist, heroic, painterly styles and subverted the traditional economic structures of the gallery, the museum and the dealer. At the same time, the artists also embraced these domains of knowledge and practice as expressions of hope for a better future. Many found inspiration in the scientific theory of open systems, which investigated "problems of wholeness, dynamic interaction and organization", enabling consideration of the porous boundaries between human bodies and their social, political and nonhuman environments. Filippone also establishes that the theory of open systems not only informed feminist art, but also continued to influence women artists? practice of reclamation and ecological art through the twenty-first century.