Re: Responses to Non-Antimale Utopias and Gen X

From: farah mendlesohn (fm7@YORK.AC.UK)
Date: Sat Apr 19 1997 - 06:08:43 PDT


> << Question: Does anyone know of any feminist utopian works
that
> don't portray men or male institutions as "the problem"? >>
>
> I took a Utopian Literature course in the English department at the
> University of South Florida. The course had an historical
perspective,
> beginning with Plato's Republic, and including two feminist utopias,
Herland
> and Ecotopia. I'd suggest either for an historical analysis of sf, but
would
> heartily recommend Ecotopia as a feminist utopia that doesn't
regard men or
> male institutions as the problem, unless you're being
extraordinarily broad
> about male institutions, in which case, it wouldn't be feminist,
would it?
>
> Hope Cascio

You could also try Kim Stanley Robinson's Pacific Edge.

Farah



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