Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s

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.

CONTENTS:List of TablesPrefaceIntroductionRhetoric of IdentificationNew Rhetoric of GenreChapter 1: Utopia and UtopianismUtopia and IdeologyUtopia as Literary GenreChapter 2: Utopianism and FeminismScraping False DichotomiesGenre TransformationChapter 3: Dorothy Bryant: Saving the Human RaceThe Real WorldUtopian ChronotopeUtopian PeopleDream-time: Fluid Meaning and Rigid WordThe Law of LightChapter 4: Joanna Russ: New Meaning for Old ConceptsCalculated AmbiguityJanet the SaviorJeannine: Cognitive StarvationJael: Terror of TerrorismJoanna: Usurp the DeniedIdentification RevisitedConclusion: Utopian Genre as Feminist StrategyGlossaryBibliography