Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s: Joanna Russ and Dorothy Bryant,9780415967877

Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s: Joanna Russ and Dorothy Bryant

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780415967877
ISBN10: 0415967872
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-08-19
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

This book presents an exploration of the reinvented utopia that provided second-wave feminists of the 1970s with a conceptual space to articulate the politics of change. Tatiana Teslenko argues that utopian fiction of this decade offered a means of validating the personal as well as the political, and of criticizing a patriarchal social order. Teslenko reveals feminists' attempt through fiction to envision a new political order.

Table of Contents

List of Tables ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1(6)
Rhetoric of Identification 7(5)
New Rhetoric of Genre 12(5)
Utopia as Rhetorical Subject 17(6)
Chapter One: Utopia and Utopianism 23(12)
Utopia and Ideology
24(2)
Utopia as Literary Genre
26(9)
Chapter Two: Utopianism and Feminism 35(50)
Scrapping False Dichotomies
36(25)
Genre Transformation
61(24)
Chapter Three: Dorothy Bryant: Saving the Human Race 85(42)
The Real World
87(3)
Utopian Chronotope
90(9)
Utopian People
99(13)
Dream-time: Fluid Meaning and Rigid Word
112(5)
The Law of Light
117(10)
Chapter Four: Joanna Russ: New Meaning for Old Concepts 127(36)
Calculated Ambiguity
128(9)
Janet the Savior
137(5)
Jeannine: Cognitive Starvation
142(2)
Jael: Terror of Terrorism
144(4)
Joanna: Usurp the Denied
148(6)
Identification Revisited
154(9)
Conclusion: Utopian Genre as Feminist Strategy 163(12)
Notes 175(6)
Glossary 181(2)
Bibliography 183(10)
Index 193

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