Women in Search of Utopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in Search of Utopia write by Ruby Rohrlich. This book was released on 1984. Women in Search of Utopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Woman on the Edge of Time
Woman on the Edge of Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Woman on the Edge of Time write by Marge Piercy. This book was released on 1997-06-23. Woman on the Edge of Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures—and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before. Connie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the streets of New York. Once ambitious and proud, she has lost her child, her husband, her dignity—and now they want to take her sanity. After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a time of sexual and racial equality, environmental purity, and unprecedented self-actualization. But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a society of grotesque exploitation in which the barrier between person and commodity has finally been eroded. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow. Praise for Woman on the Edge of Time “This is one of those rare novels that leave us different people at the end than we were at the beginning. Whether you are reading Marge Piercy’s great work again or for the first time, it will remind you that we are creating the future with every choice we make.”—Gloria Steinem “An ambitious, unusual novel about the possibilities for moral courage in contemporary society.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “A stunning, even astonishing novel . . . marvelous and compelling.”—Publishers Weekly “Connie Ramos’s world is cuttingly real.”—Newsweek “Absorbing and exciting.”—The New York Times Book Review
Utopian and Science Fiction by Women
Utopian and Science Fiction by Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Utopian and Science Fiction by Women write by Jane Donawerth. This book was released on 1994. Utopian and Science Fiction by Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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 Mitchison. 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."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Task of Utopia
The Task of Utopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Task of Utopia write by Erin McKenna. This book was released on 2001. The Task of Utopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At their best, both American pragmatism and utopianism are about hope. Both encourage people to think about the future as a guide to understanding the past and forming the present. Just as pragmatism has often been misunderstood as valueless instrumentalism, utopianism has been limited to dreams of a static perfect world. In this book, Erin McKenna argues that utopian vision informed by pragmatism results in a process model of utopia that can help form the future based on critical intelligence. Using John Dewey's works with feminist theory and literature, McKenna develops this pragmatist feminist model of utopia.
Women's Utopias in British and American Fiction
Women's Utopias in British and American Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women's Utopias in British and American Fiction write by Nan Bowman Albinski. This book was released on 2019-11-21. Women's Utopias in British and American Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
