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The term "utopia" implies both "good place" and "nowhere". The debate over utopian models of society has fallen on all points between these contradictory definitions. This work engages the literary cross section of contemporary feminist science fiction to examine the tradition of utopian writing.

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Locational hazards - the utopian impulse and the logic of social transformation; turning inward - strategies of containment and subjective/collective boundaries in traditional utopian literature; speaking parts - internal dialogic and models of agency in the work of Joanna Russ and Octavia Butler; utopia and technopolitics in "Woman on the Edge of Time"; acting out "lesbian" - Monique Wittig and immanent critique; conclusion: moveable locales - narrating unsutured utopia.

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      Publisher: MP - University Of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: 3/15/1997 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780816626397, 978-0816626397
      ISBN10: 0816626391

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The term "utopia" implies both "good place" and "nowhere". The debate over utopian models of society has fallen on all points between these contradictory definitions. This work engages the literary cross section of contemporary feminist science fiction to examine the tradition of utopian writing.

      Table of Contents
      Locational hazards - the utopian impulse and the logic of social transformation; turning inward - strategies of containment and subjective/collective boundaries in traditional utopian literature; speaking parts - internal dialogic and models of agency in the work of Joanna Russ and Octavia Butler; utopia and technopolitics in "Woman on the Edge of Time"; acting out "lesbian" - Monique Wittig and immanent critique; conclusion: moveable locales - narrating unsutured utopia.

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