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Notes on Nowhere : Feminism, Utopian Logic, and Social Transformation.
The term utopia implies both "good place" and "nowhere." Since Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia in 1516, debates about utopian models of society have sought to understand the implications of these somewhat contradictory definitions. In Notes on Nowhere, author Jennifer Burwell uses a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1997.
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| Colección: | American culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The term utopia implies both "good place" and "nowhere." Since Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia in 1516, debates about utopian models of society have sought to understand the implications of these somewhat contradictory definitions. In Notes on Nowhere, author Jennifer Burwell uses a cross-section of contemporary feminist science fiction to examine the political and literary meaning of utopian writing and utopian thought. Burwell provides close readings of the science fiction novels of five feminist writersMarge Piercy, Sally Gearhart, Joanna Russ, Octavia Butler, and Monique Wittigand poses que. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (260 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780816686636 0816686637 |