Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative

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Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870496363
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative by : Libby Falk Jones

Download or read book Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative written by Libby Falk Jones and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Feminist Utopias

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803260917
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Feminist Utopias by : Frances Bartkowski

Download or read book Feminist Utopias written by Frances Bartkowski and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Contemporary Feminist Utopianism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134767668
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Contemporary Feminist Utopianism by : Lucy Sargisson

Download or read book Contemporary Feminist Utopianism written by Lucy Sargisson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135885168
Total Pages : 363 pages
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Book Synopsis Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s by : Tatiana Teslenko

Download or read book Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s written by Tatiana Teslenko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-19 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Woman on the Edge of Time

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Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 044900094X
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Woman on the Edge of Time by : Marge Piercy

Download or read book Woman on the Edge of Time written by Marge Piercy and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1997-06-23 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Utopian and Science Fiction by Women

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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815626206
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Utopian and Science Fiction by Women by : Jane L. Donawerth

Download or read book Utopian and Science Fiction by Women written by Jane L. Donawerth and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection speaks to common themes and strategies in women's writing about their different worlds, from Margaret Cavendish's seventeenth-century Blazing World of the North Pole to the "men-less" islands of the French writer Scudery to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century utopias of Shelley and Gaskell, and science fiction pulps, finishing with the more contemporary feminist fictions of Le Guin, Wittig, Piercy, and Michison. It shows that these fictions historically speak to each other and together amount to a literary tradition of women's writing about a better place.

Women and Utopia

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Total Pages : 192 pages
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Book Synopsis Women and Utopia by : Marleen S. Barr

Download or read book Women and Utopia written by Marleen S. Barr and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107245230
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions by : Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor

Download or read book Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions written by Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Daring To Dream

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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815626558
Total Pages : 364 pages
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Book Synopsis Daring To Dream by : Carol Farley Kessler

Download or read book Daring To Dream written by Carol Farley Kessler and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first section consists of 12 selections of feminist utopian fiction including Annie Denton Cridge's Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's A Woman's Utopia, and Gertrude Short's A Visitor From Venus, some excerpted and some in their entirety. Includes an annotated bibliography of US women's utopian fiction from 1836 to 1988. First edition originally published as Daring to Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919 by Pandora Press of Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, in 1984. Paper edition (2655-X), $17.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Feminist Utopia Project

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Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558619011
Total Pages : 377 pages
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Book Synopsis The Feminist Utopia Project by : Alexandra Brodsky

Download or read book The Feminist Utopia Project written by Alexandra Brodsky and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).