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Utopian and Science Fiction by Women - (Utopianism and Communitarianism) by Jane L Donawerth & Carol Kolmerten (Paperback)

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  • 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 Michison.
  • About the Author: Jane L. Donawerth is associate professor of English at the University of Maryland and the author of Shakespeare and the Sixteenth-Century Study of Language.
  • 280 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Science Fiction
  • Series Name: Utopianism and Communitarianism

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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 Michison. 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.



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A significant addition to feminist studies of women's utopian and science fiction.-- "SFRA Review"

The critics explore a range of texts that resist platitudes about any essential or universal 'female nature' and instead testify to many women's quite dissimilar efforts to multiply the ways in which we imagine ourselves, our families, and our values so we can engender fresh words for future lives in new worlds.-- "Susam Gasar, from the Foreword"



About the Author



Jane L. Donawerth is associate professor of English at the University of Maryland and the author of Shakespeare and the Sixteenth-Century Study of Language.

Carol A. Kolmerten is professor of English at Hood College and the author of Women in Utopia and editor of the journal Utopus Discovered.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.98 Inches (H) x 6.02 Inches (W) x .75 Inches (D)
Weight: .88 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Utopianism and Communitarianism
Sub-Genre: Science Fiction
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 280
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Jane L Donawerth & Carol Kolmerten
Language: English
Street Date: July 1, 1994
TCIN: 1002476924
UPC: 9780815626206
Item Number (DPCI): 247-48-0743
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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