Utopian and Science Fiction by Women

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Utopian and Science Fiction by Women is written by Jane L. Donawerth and published by Syracuse University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0815626207 (ISBN 10) and 9780815626206 (ISBN 13).

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 these fictions historically speak to each other and together amount to a literary tradition of women's writing about a better place.