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Author Bammer, Angelika

Title Partial visions : feminism and utopianism in the 1970s / Angelika Bammer
Published New York ; London : Routledge, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 198 pages)
Contents Chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Wild wishes: women and the history of utopia -- chapter 2 Utopia and/as ideology: feminist utopias in nineteenth-century America -- chapter 3 Rewriting the future: the utopian impulse in 1970s feminism -- chapter 4 Worlds apart: utopian visions and separate spheres feminism -- chapter 5 The end(s) of struggle: the dream of utopia and the call to action -- chapter 6 Writing toward the Not-Yet: utopia as process -- chapter 7 Conclusion
Summary Bammers book traces the radical utopianism of feminist politics in Euro-American, French and German women writers of the 1970s. She argues that feminist utopianism is not just visionary, but myopic - i.e. time and culture-bound - as well
Analysis Feminism Related to Politics
Feminism Related to Literature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-192) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Feminism and literature.
Utopias in literature.
European fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
European fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Feminist fiction -- History and criticism
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
utopian literature.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
American literature -- Women authors
American fiction
American fiction -- Women authors
European fiction
European fiction -- Women authors
Feminism and literature
Feminist fiction
Utopias in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585460647
9780585460642
020316914X
9780203169148