Utopian and science fiction by women : worlds of difference
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Utopian and science fiction by women : worlds of difference
（Liverpool science fiction texts and studies, 3）
Liverpool University Press, c1994
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
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Bibliography: p. 231-250
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection of eleven original essays 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 Mitchison.
Table of Contents
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Foreword - Susan Gubar
Acknowledgements
Contributors
1. Introduction - Jane L. Donawerth and Carol A. Kolmerten
2. The Subject of Utopia - Margaret Cavendish and Her Blazing-World - Lee Cullen Khanna
3. Islands of Felicity - Women Seeing Utopia in Seventeenth-Century France - Ruth Carver Capasso
4. Mothers and Monsters in Sarah Robinson Scott's - Millenium Hall - Linda Dunne
5. Gaskell's Feminist Utopia: The Cranfordians and the Reign of Goodwill - Rae Rosenthal
6. Subjectivity as Feminist Utopia - Jean Pfaelzer
7. Texts and Contexts: American Women Envision Utopia, 1890-1920 - Carol A. Kolmerten
8. Consider Her Ways: The Cultural Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Pragmatopian Stories, 1908-1913 - Carol Farley Kessler
9. Science Fiction by Women in the Early Pulps, 1926-1930 - Jane L. Donawerth
10. Difference and Sexual Politics in Naomi Mitchison's Solution Three - Sarah Lefanu
11. "There Goes the Neighbourhood": Octavia Butler's Demand for Diversity in Utopias - Michelle Erica Green
12. The Frozen Landscape in Women's Utopian and Science Fiction - Naomi Jacobs
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