Feminist Utopias In A Postmodern Era

Author : Alkeline van Lenning,Marrie Bekker,Ine Vanwesenbeeck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 More recently, it has been stressed that the concept of utopia has been superseded by postmodern awareness, in which general explanations of gender inequality (and, along with them, general utopian views) are disqualified to the benefit of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 : Libby Falk Jones,Sarah McKim Webster Goodwin
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Lucy Sargisson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Karin Schonpflug
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134114214

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Feminism, Economics and Utopia by Karin Schonpflug Pdf

Are there feminist, economic utopian visions amongst feminist economists? What are these visions? Is there a common vision for feminist economics or should there be? Can feminist economics be effective without a utopian vision? Comprehensive and original, this book surveys the entire field of utopian literature; from Plato to the present. Answering a range of questions and written by a rising star in feminist economics it provides explanations of: the different kinds of feminism the evolution of feminist thought the development of feminist economics the history and sources of utopias as a theoretical and/or literary tool. This volume is a must for all students studying the intersection of gender and economics.

Author : Tobin Siebers
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472105574

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Heterotopia by Tobin Siebers Pdf

Considers the uses and dangers of utopian thinking in the postmodern world

Author : Marianne DeKoven
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0822332698

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Utopia Limited by Marianne DeKoven Pdf

DIVThe end of the modern and the emergence of the postmodern in 1960s philosophy, literature, and popular culture./div

Author : Nanny M. W. de Vries, Jan Best
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 13811312:1997::4:2:

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Thamyris 4.2 by Nanny M. W. de Vries, Jan Best Pdf

Author : Kathi Weeks
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780822351122

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The Problem with Work by Kathi Weeks Pdf

The Problem with Work develops a Marxist feminist critique of the structures and ethics of work, as well as a perspective for imagining a life no longer subordinated to them.

Author : Avery Gordon,Angela Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317257073

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Keeping Good Time by Avery Gordon,Angela Davis Pdf

Avery Gordon's first book, Ghostly Matters, was widely acclaimed as a work of striking sociological imagination and social theory. Keeping Good Time, her much anticipated second book, brings together essays by Gordon that were "written to be read aloud." Her eloquent voice in this book further establishes her place among literary sociological writers of a new generation. Keeping Good Time will be of great interest to activists, feminists, sociologists, students and everyone concerned about how to beat the odds in influencing the shape of social and culture change. Readers will find their thinking changed by the author's perennial quest to "develop insights gained in confrontation with injustice."

Author : J. Marangos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230337800

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Alternative Perspectives of a Good Society by J. Marangos Pdf

As a collection of alternative views on societies, methodologies, policies and assessment of the current elements of the society, Alternative Perspectives on a Good Society brings together different authors answering different questions all within the context of visions of a good society.

Author : Patrick Slattery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136792052

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Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era by Patrick Slattery Pdf

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Frances Bartkowski
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Publisher : Series Cultural Inquiry
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783851326161

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Tension / Spannung by Christoph F. E. Holzhey Pdf

Tension appears in many contexts and carries diverse meanings. It tends to be viewed as something to be avoided and reduced in politics; to be explained, worked through, and resolved in therapy or science; to be endured and sustained in modern art; or to be sought after and enjoyed in popular culture. This volume brings together contributions from several academic and artistic fields in order to question the self-evidence of the deceptively simple term ‘tension’ and explore the possibility of productive transfers among different forms und understandings of tension. Refusing the temptation of a stabilizing synthesis, it establishes a dense web of approaches, providing a new critical paradigm for further inquiry.

Author : Dr. Shabana Kesar Suri
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781794772601

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MODERN FEMINISM AND MUSLIM WOMEN by Dr. Shabana Kesar Suri Pdf