Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference

by Jane L. Donawerth

Book Overview

This collection speaks to common themes and strategies in women's writing about their different worlds, from Margaret Cavendish's seventeenth-century Blazing World of the North Pole to the "men-less" islands of the French writer Scudery to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century utopias of Shelley and Gaskell, and science fiction pulps, finishing with the more contemporary feminist fictions of Le Guin, Wittig, Piercy, and Michison. It shows that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815626207
• ISBN13: 9780815626206
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"