Author: Alkeline van Lenning
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
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 More recently, it has been stressed that the concept of utopia has been superseded by postmodern awareness, in which general explanations of gender inequality (and, along with them, general utopian views) are disqualified to the benefit of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.
Feminist Utopias in a Postmodern Era
Author: Alkeline van Lenning
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
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 More recently, it has been stressed that the concept of utopia has been superseded by postmodern awareness, in which general explanations of gender inequality (and, along with them, general utopian views) are disqualified to the benefit of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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
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.
Contemporary Feminist Utopianism
Author: Lucy Sargisson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134767668
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134767668
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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.
Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative
Author: Libby Falk Jones
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870496363
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870496363
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions
Author: Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107245230
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107245230
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
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.
Feminism, Economics and Utopia
Author: Karin Schonpflug
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134114214
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Answering a range of questions and written by a rising star in feminist economics, this book provides explanations of the different kinds of feminism, the evolution of feminist thought and, the history and sources of utopias as a theoretical and/or literary tool.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134114214
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Answering a range of questions and written by a rising star in feminist economics, this book provides explanations of the different kinds of feminism, the evolution of feminist thought and, the history and sources of utopias as a theoretical and/or literary tool.
Heterotopia
Author: Tobin Siebers
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472105571
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Considers the uses and dangers of utopian thinking in the postmodern world
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472105571
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Considers the uses and dangers of utopian thinking in the postmodern world
Gender in the Making
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004649980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004649980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Thamyris 4.2
Author: Nanny M. W. de Vries, Jan Best
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Utopia Limited
Author: Marianne DeKoven
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822332695
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
DIVThe end of the modern and the emergence of the postmodern in 1960s philosophy, literature, and popular culture./div
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822332695
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
DIVThe end of the modern and the emergence of the postmodern in 1960s philosophy, literature, and popular culture./div
The Feminist Utopia Project
Author: Alexandra Brodsky
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1558619011
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
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).
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1558619011
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
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).