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Title Utopian and science fiction by women : worlds of difference / edited by Jane L. Donawerth and Carol A. Kolmerten ; foreword by Susan Gubar.

Publication Info. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1994.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  823.0876 U91U    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xix, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series Utopianism and communitarianism
Utopianism and communitarianism.
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.
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Feminist fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Feminist fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Utopias in literature.
Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries.
Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
Added Author Donawerth, Jane, 1947-
Kolmerten, Carol A., 1946-
ISBN 0815626193 cloth alkaline paper
9780815626190 cloth alkaline paper
0815626207 paperback alkaline paper
9780815626206 paperback alkaline paper
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