Women And Utopia
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Women And Utopia
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Author : Marleen S. Barr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Women And Utopia written by Marleen S. Barr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with American fiction categories.
Utopian And Science Fiction By Women
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Author : Jane L. Donawerth
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 1994-07-01
Utopian And Science Fiction By Women written by Jane L. Donawerth and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-07-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Feminist Utopias
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Author : Frances Bartkowski
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1991-01-01
Feminist Utopias written by Frances Bartkowski and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Women S Utopias Of The Eighteenth Century
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Author : Alessa Johns
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2003
Women S Utopias Of The Eighteenth Century written by Alessa Johns and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
No human society has ever been perfect, a fact that has led thinkers as far back as Plato and St. Augustine to conceive of utopias both as a fanciful means of escape from an imperfect reality and as a useful tool with which to design improvements upon it. The most studied utopias have been proposed by men, but during the eighteenth century a group of reform-oriented female novelists put forth a series of work that expressed their views of, and their reservations about, ideal societies. In Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century, Alessa Johns examines the utopian communities envisaged by Mary Astell, Sarah Fielding, Mary Hamilton, Sarah Scott, and other writers from Britain and continental Europe, uncovering the ways in which they resembled--and departed from--traditional utopias. Johns demonstrates that while traditional visions tended to look back to absolutist models, women's utopias quickly incorporated emerging liberal ideas that allowed far more room for personal initiative and gave agency to groups that were not culturally dominant, such as the female writers themselves. Women's utopias, Johns argues, were reproductive in nature. They had the potential to reimagine and perpetuate themselves.
Women In Search Of Utopia
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Author : Ruby Rohrlich
language : en
Publisher: Schocken
Release Date : 1984
Women In Search Of Utopia written by Ruby Rohrlich and has been published by Schocken this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Feminism categories.
Feminism Utopia And Narrative
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Author : Libby Falk Jones
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 1990
Feminism Utopia And Narrative written by Libby Falk Jones and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Social Science categories.
Essays from the intersection of feminist theory, literary criticism, and political philosophy trace the feminist utopian impulse in contexts as different as a medieval convent and contemporary science fiction, raising questions about the relationships between narrative and social change, utopianism and totalitarianism, and fantasy and hope. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Women In Utopia
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Author : Carol A. Kolmerten
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 1998-09-01
Women In Utopia written by Carol A. Kolmerten and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-01 with Political Science categories.
Carol A. Kolmerten is professor of English at Hood College. She is the author of The American Life of Ernestine L. Rose.
Role Of Women In Utopian And Dystopian Novels
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Author : Jelena Vukadinovic
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2009-05
Role Of Women In Utopian And Dystopian Novels written by Jelena Vukadinovic and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05 with categories.
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, RWTH Aachen University, language: English, abstract: Being a great lover of mythological tales since childhood, I have early discovered that certain traits and patterns of behaviour were usually ascribed to certain gender roles. Yet even within the roles of the respective genders, considerable differences were to be found. Those who shared many characteristics tended to end in similar ways. Strong and capable Penthesilea ends dead on the battlefield of Troy and her corpse is raped by Achilles. Atalanta, who beats male heroes in great adventures is tricked into marriage against her will, by an offended goddess and a man who is not her equal. Helen's beauty has the power to launch thousand ships. Yet Helen herself is only a toy for men and gods. Penelope sits and weaves for twenty years waiting for her husband to return from a Trojan war while he is pursued and seduced by enchantresses. The more I read, in mythology and other fiction, the more often I discovered some endlessly repeating characteristics and patterns of behaviour of diverse roles. During my studies I became very interested in gender roles in Anglo-American literature, again particularly in those of female characters. Female roles in literature were always the more interesting to me when read from the background of the historical period in which they were created. Some of those fictional characters reflected the roles women were expected to fill at that particular age and geographical area. Others again were bad examples and warnings of what happens to women who do not fit into socially accepted roles. Once in a while a heroine would rise above the expected roles yet in the end she would return to the domestic area in which she was expected to be, or she would be destroyed. Of course there were always exceptions. Yet the first permanent and recognisable change of such roles in literature beco
Women Utopia
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Author : Wendy Wee
language : en
Publisher: Wendy Wee
Release Date : 2019-07-22
Women Utopia written by Wendy Wee and has been published by Wendy Wee this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-22 with Fiction categories.
A speculative sci-fi where toxic feminism of the past has led to a dystopian future for women. A future where women are dehumanized and treated little more than property collected as wives by a few wealthy and powerful men, while other men are left in the dust of uselessness due to mass job automation. Ramona Rey is a socially awkward young woman trying to navigate the politics of courtship and marriage, only to stumble into being part of an underground group of radical feminists led by an enigmatic woman. As Ramona tries to gather intel for the group, she ends up working as a bodyguard for Adam, the heir of one of the richest families in the country. Ramona is conflicted when she learns that the feminists are about to unleash the biggest terror mankind has ever known: the complete annihilation of men. Added into the mix are her growing feelings towards Adam and her trying to find out if all men are really evil, as claimed by the feminists. Women Utopia is the debut novel of Wendy Wee.
Women S Utopias In British And American Fiction
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Author : Nan Bowman Albinski
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-21
Women S Utopias In British And American Fiction written by Nan Bowman Albinski and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
Utopian writing offers a fascinating panorama of social visions; and the related forms of dystopia and anti-utopian satire extend this into the range of social nightmares. Originally published in 1988, this comparative study of utopian fiction by British and American women writers demonstrates the continuity of a well-established, but little-known, tradition, emphasising its range and diversity, and providing ample evidence of women’s aspirations and documenting the restrictions and exclusions in private and public life that their novels challenge. Historically, the growth of each national tradition is traced in relation to social and political movements, particularly the suffrage movement and contemporary feminism. Comparatively, the quite different responses of British and American women to what are in many instances the same social problems are examine in the light of changing expectations. Definitions of human nature and gender relationships are assessed on a nature/culture continuum as a means of understanding this change. Women’s attitudes to their social and political roles, their working lives, to sexuality, marriage and the family are reflected in their visions of fruitful change; and so also is the impact of two world wars, socialism and fascism, the debate on peaceful uses of nuclear energy and fears of a nuclear holocaust.