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