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Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference
| Author: | Jane L. Donawerth Carol A. Kolmerten |
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Liverpool University Press, 1994 |
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| Book Type: | Non-Fiction |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Utopia |
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Synopsis
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.
Contents:
- "There Goes the Neighborhood": Octavia Butler's Demand for Diversity in Utopias - (1994) - essay by Michell Erica Green
- Consider Her Ways: The Cultural Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Pragmatopian Stories, 1908-1913 - (1994) - essay by Carol Farley Kessler
- Difference and Sexual Politics in Naomi Mitchison's Solution Three - (1994) - essay by Sarah LeFanu
- Gaskell's Feminist Utopia: The Cranfordians and the Reign of Goodwill - (1994) - essay by Rae Rosenthal
- Islands of Felicity: Women Seeing Utopia in Seventeenth-Century France - (1994) - essay by Ruth Carver Capasso
- Mothers and Monsters in Sarah Robinson Scott's Millenium Hall - (1994) - essay by Linda Dunne
- Science Fiction by Women in the Early Pulps, 1926-1930 - (1994) - essay by Jane L. Donawerth
- Subjectivity as Feminist Utopia - (1994) - essay by Jean Pfaelzer
- Texts and Contexts: American Women Envision Utopia, 1890-1920 - (1994) - essay by Carol A. Kolmerten
- The Frozen Landscape in Women's Utopian and Science Fiction - (1994) - essay by Naomi Jacobs
- The Subject of Utopia: Margaret Cavendish and Her Blazing-World - (1994) - essay by Lee Cullen Khanna
- Foreword (Utopian and Science Fiction by Women) - (1994) - essay by Susan Gubar
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