Partial Visions : Feminism and Utopianism in the 1970s Paperback / softback
by Angelika Bammer
Part of the Ralahine Utopian Studies series
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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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- Pages:365 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc
- Publication Date:29/10/2015
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- ISBN:9783034308977
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:365 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc
- Publication Date:29/10/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9783034308977