Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
xix, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
Series |
Utopianism and communitarianism |
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Utopianism and communitarianism.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index. |
Contents |
The subject of Utopia: Margaret Cavendish and her Blazing-world / Lee Cullen Khanna -- Islands of Felicity: women seeing utopia in seventeenth-century France / Ruth Carver Capasso -- Mothers and monsters in Sarah Robinson Scott's Millenium hall / Linda Dunne -- Gaskell's feminist utopia: the Cranfordians and the reign of goodwill / Rae Rosenthal -- Subjectivity as feminist utopia / Jean Pfaelzer -- Texts and contexts: American women envision utopia, 1890-1920 / Carol A. Kolmerten -- Consider her ways: the cultural work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's pragmatopian stories, 1908-1913 / Carol Farley Kessler -- Science fiction by women in the early pulps, 1926-1930 / Jane L. Donawerth -- Difference and sexual politics in Naomi Mitchison's Solution three / Sarah Lefanu -- "There goes the neighborhood": Octavia Butler's Demand for diversity in utopias / Michell Erica Green -- The frozen landscape in women's utopian and science fiction / Naomi Jacobs. |
Subject |
Science fiction, English -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Feminist fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Feminist fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Utopias in literature.
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Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Added Author |
Donawerth, Jane, 1947-
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Kolmerten, Carol A., 1946-
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ISBN |
0815626193 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780815626190 cloth alkaline paper |
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0815626207 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780815626206 paperback alkaline paper |
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