Bammers book traces the radical utopianism of feminist politics in Euro-American, French and German women writers of the 1970s. She argues that feminist utopianism is not just visionary, but myopic - ie time and culture-bound - as well
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Bammers book traces the radical utopianism of feminist politics in Euro-American, French and German women writers of the 1970s. She argues that feminist utopianism is not just visionary, but myopic - ie time and culture-bound - as well
Front Cover; Partial Visions; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1."Wild wishes…": women and the history of utopia; 2.Utopia and/as ideology: feminist utopias in nineteenth-century America; 3.Rewriting the future: the utopian impulse in 1970s' feminism; 4.Worlds apart: utopian visions and separate spheres' feminism; 5.The end(s) of struggle: the dream of utopia and the call to action; 6.Writing toward the Not-Yet: utopia as process; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index