Politics, Persuasion, and Pragmatism

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."

Editions

• Ohio State University Press, 2002.