Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s

Tatian Teslenko. Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s: Joanna Russ and Dorothy Bryant. Routledge

2003. ISBN 0415967872. ISBN 9780415967873.

Contents

• List of Tables ix
• Preface xi
• Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1 (6)

• Rhetoric of Identification 7 (5)
• New Rhetoric of Genre 12 (5)
• Utopia as Rhetorical Subject 17 (6)

Chapter One

Utopia and Utopianism 23 (12)

• Utopia and Ideology 24 (2)
• Utopia as Literary Genre 26 (9)

Chapter Two

Utopianism and Feminism 35 (50)

• Scrapping False Dichotomies 36 (25)
• Genre Transformation 61 (24)

Chapter Three

Dorothy Bryant: Saving the Human Race 85 (42)

• The Real World 87 (3)
• Utopian Chronotope 90 (9)
• Utopian People 99 (13)
• Dream-time: Fluid Meaning and Rigid Word 112 (5)
• The Law of Light 117 (10)

Chapter Four

Joanna Russ: New Meaning for Old Concepts 127 (36)

• Calculated Ambiguity 128 (9)
• Janet the Savior 137 (5)
• Jeannine: Cognitive Starvation 142 (2)
• Jael: Terror of Terrorism 144 (4)
• Joanna: Usurp the Denied 148 (6)
• Identification Revisited 154 (9)

• Conclusion: Utopian Genre as Feminist Strategy 163 (12)
• Notes 175 (6)
• Glossary 181 (2)
• Bibliography 183 (10)
• Index 193