Politics, Persuasion, and Pragmatism

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Politics, Persuasion, and Pragmatism: A Rhetoric of Feminist Utopian Fiction by Ellen Susan Peel is a 2002 study of "persuasion" in feminist utopian fiction. The book focuses primarily on three novels:

• The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five by Doris Lessing (1980)
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)
• Les Guérillères (The Women Warriors) by Monique Wittig (1969)

"Thus, Politics, Persuasion, and Pragmatism is a book about how people come to believe what they do -- how their beliefs are instilled or reinforced. In particular, it is about how people are influenced by reading feminist utopian novels."

Contents

• Acknowledgements - xii
• Introduction - xv

Part I - Persuasion in Feminist Utopian Narratives

• Chapter 1 - Static and Pragmatic Utopian Feminism - p.3
• Chapter 2 - The Process of Feminist Narrative Persuasion - p.16
• Chapter 3 - Two Major Techniques of Narrative Persuasion: Belief-Bridging and Protean Persuasion - p.35
• Chapter 4 - Feminism as a Rejection of Patriarchal Patterns - p.48
• Chapter 5 - Diverse Patterns of Feminism - p.63

Part II - Readings of Feminist Utopian Narratives

• Chapter 6 - Doris Lessing's The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five - p.83
• Chapter 7 - Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness - p.109
• Chapter 8 - Monique Wittig's Les Guérillères - p.149

• Conclusion - p.173
• Notes - p.185
• Bibliography - p.201
• Index - p.221

Editions

• Ohio State University Press, 2002. ISBN 0814209106.