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Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century (Hardcover, New)
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No human society has ever been perfect, a fact that has led
thinkers as far back as Plato and St. Augustine to conceive of
utopias both as a fanciful means of escape from an imperfect
reality and as a useful tool with which to design improvements upon
it. The most studied utopias have been proposed by men, but during
the eighteenth century a group of reform-oriented female novelists
put forth a series of work that expressed their views of, and their
reservations about, ideal societies. In Women's Utopias of the
Eighteenth Century, Alessa Johns examines the utopian communities
envisaged by Mary Astell, Sarah Fielding, Mary Hamilton, Sarah
Scott, and other writers from Britain and continental Europe,
uncovering the ways in which they resembled--and departed
from--traditional utopias. Johns demonstrates that while
traditional visions tended to look back to absolutist models,
women's utopias quickly incorporated emerging liberal ideas that
allowed far more room for personal initiative and gave agency to
groups that were not culturally dominant, such as the female
writers themselves. Women's utopias, Johns argues, were
reproductive in nature. They had the potential to reimagine and
perpetuate themselves.
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