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Partial Visions - Feminism and Utopianism in the 1970s (Paperback, New edition)
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Partial Visions - Feminism and Utopianism in the 1970s (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Ralahine Utopian Studies, 16
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What would a good world for women look like? How would we get there
from where we are and how would we have to change ourselves in the
process? This book examines a critical moment in recent American
and western European history when the utopian dimension of
political movements was particularly generative and feminism was at
their core. The imaginative literature that emerged out of
American, French, and German feminisms of the 1970s engaged the
dialectic between the actual and the possible in radically new and
creative ways. Ranging from conventional utopian and science
fictions to avant-garde and experimental texts, they countered the
idea of utopia as a pre-set goal with the idea of the utopian as a
process of "dreaming forwards." This book explores the
transformative potential of feminist visions of change, even as it
sees their ideological blind spots. It does more than simply look
back to the 1970s. Instead, it looks ahead, anticipating some of
the shifts and changes of feminist thought in the following
decades: its transnational scope, its critique of identity politics
and the gendered politics of sexuality, and its embrace of affect
as an analytical category. The author argues that the radical
utopianism of second wave feminisms has not lost its urgency. The
transformations they envisioned are still our challenge, as the
vital work of social change remains undone.
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