Feminist Utopias by Frances Bartkowski

1990 ◽  
Vol 44 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 93-94
Author(s):  
J. E. Svilpis
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Utopias

scholarly journals drones, swarms and becoming-insect: feminist utopias and posthuman politics

2017 ◽  
Vol 116 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Wilcox
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Utopias

Feminist utopias

1990 ◽  
Vol 27 (08) ◽  
pp. 27-4353-27-4353
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Utopias

Old Futures

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexis Lothian
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
History Of ◽  
Space Distortion ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Feminist Utopias

Old Futures traverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital media. Centering works by women, queers, and people of color that are marginalized within most accounts of the genre, the book offers a new perspective on speculative fiction studies while reframing established theories of queer temporality by arguing that futures imagined in the past offer new ways to queer the present. Imagined futures have been central to the creation and maintenance of imperial domination and technological modernity; Old Futures rewrites the history of the future by gathering together works that counter such narratives even as they are part of them. Lothian explores how queer possibilities are constructed and deconstructed through extrapolative projections and affective engagements with alternative temporalities. The book is structured in three parts, each addressing one convergence of political economy, theoretical framework, and narrative form that has given rise to a formation of speculative futurity. Six main chapters focus on white feminist utopias and dystopias of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; on Afrofuturist narratives that turn the dehumanization of black lives into feminist and queer visions of transformation; on futuristic landscapes in queer speculative cinema; and on fan creators’ digital interventions into televised futures. Two shorter chapters, named “Wormholes” in homage to the science fiction trope of a time-space distortion that connects distant locations, highlight current resonances of the old futures under discussion.

Women's Fantasies and Feminist Utopias

1977 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Utopias

Is an ‘other’ city possible? Using feminist utopias in creating a more inclusive vision of the future city

Futures ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 121 ◽  
pp. 102583
Author(s):  
Christine Hudson ◽  
Malin Rönnblom
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
Feminist Utopias

Joining the Cultural Minority

Joanna Russ ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 109-132
Author(s):  
Gwyneth Jones
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Cultural Minority ◽  
Feminist Utopias ◽  
The Yellow Wallpaper ◽  
Fictional Autobiography

“Joining the Cultural Minority” examines the influence of Nabokov on Joanna’s modernist, postrealist sensibility, her “fictional autobiography” project, and her insistence on the “fictiveness of fiction.” The chapter discusses issues of agency and assimilation in her fifth novel. A “re-visioning and re-perceiving” of a work by Joanna’s friend Suzette Halden Elgin, related to Joanna’s important 1970 story “The Second Inquisition,” The Two of Us (1978) features a talented young “Trans-Temp” agent who realizes that if other women are chattels, her own, special status is an illusion. Reviews, essays, and stories discussed include “Recent Feminist Utopias”; “On the Yellow Wallpaper”; “Not for Years but for Decades”; and the engaging, juvenile “coming of age” story Kitattinny, all of which confirm a shift toward feminism and away from feminist sf.

No Man’s Land: Feminised Landscapes in the Utopian Fiction of Ursula Le Guin

1998 ◽  
pp. 199-208
Author(s):  
Gwyneth Jones
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
The South ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
Utopian Fiction ◽  
And Gender ◽  
No Man's Land ◽  
Feminist Utopias

In this chapter, Jones reviews various texts by Ursula Le Guin, including Always Coming Home, The Dispossessed, The Word for World is Forest, The Left Hand of Darkness, and Sur. Jones draws attention to the depiction of the ‘South’ in literature as a whole, but more specifically in terms of the feminist utopias that Le Guin creates in her narratives. She also foregrounds the significance of navigating the political, social and gender codes of society and explores the ways in which masculinity and femininity often correspond to an imbalance of power.

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