Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative

Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative is a 1990 collection of feminist SF studies edited by Libby Falk Jones and Sarah Webster Goodwin.

Editions

• 1990: University of Tennessee Press, 1st edition (July 1990). ISBN 0870496360. ISBN 978-0870496363.

Contents

• Preface / Sarah Webster Goodwin and Libby Falk Jones - ix

• "Knowing Better: Feminism and Utopian Discourse in Pride and Prejudice, Villette, and 'Babette's Feast'" / Sarah Webster Goodwin - p.1
• "Food for Postmodern Thought: Isak Dinesen's Female Artists as Precursors to Contemporary Feminist Fabulators" / Marleen Barr - p.21
• "Utopian Feminism, Skeptical Feminism, and Narrative Energy" / Ellen Peel - p.34
• "'The Laws of Justice, of Nature, and of Right': Victorian Feminist Utopias" / Nan Bowman Albinski - p.50
• "The Grand Marital Revolution: Two Feminist Utopias (1874, 1919)" / Carol Farley Kessler - p.69
• "The Great Divorce: Fictions of Feminist Desire" / Kristine J. Anderson - p.85
• "'So We All Become Mothers': Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and the New World of Women's Culture" / Dorothy Berkson - p.100
• "Gilman, Bradley, Piercy, and the Evolving Rhetoric of Feminist Utopias" / Libby Falk Jones - p.116
• "Women's Utopias: New Worlds, New Texts" / Lee Cullen Khanna - p.130
• "The Turn from Utopia in Recent Feminist Fiction" / Peter Fitting - p.141
• "Feminocentric Utopia and Male Desire: 'The New Paris of the Saint-Simonians'" / Kari Weil - p.159
• "A Medieval Woman's Utopian Vision: The Rule of St. Clare of Assisi" / Elizabeth Petroff - p.174
• "Response: WHat Happened to History?" / Jean Pfaelzer - p.191
• "Response" / Jean Bethke Elshtain - p.201

• Notes on Contributors - p.209
• Index - p.213