Partial VisionsPositing that a radical utopianism is one of the most vital impulses of feminist politics, Partial Visions traces the articulation of this impulse in the work of Euro-American, French and German women writers of the 1970s. It argues that this feminist utopianism both continued and reconceptualized a critical dimension of Left politics, yet concludes that feminist utopianism is not just visionary, but myopic - time and culture bound - as well. |
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feminist utopias in nineteenthcentury America | 27 |
the utopian impulse in 1970s feminism | 46 |
utopian visions and separate spheres feminism | 65 |
the dream of utopia and the call to action | 90 |
utopia as process | 115 |
Conclusion | 149 |
Notes | 158 |
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