Sex in Imagined Spaces: Gender and Utopia from More to Bloch

ISBN-13: 9781906540418 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 200 str.

Catriona Ni Dhuill

Opis

From Thomas More onwards, writers of utopias have constructed alternative models of society as a way of commenting critically on existing social orders. In the utopian alternative, the sex-gender system of the contemporary society may be either reproduced or radically re-organised.

Spis treści

1. No Place Like Here: Utopian Imagination as a Critical Space 2. From Utopian Crisis to Dystopian Response 3. Re-Arranging Gender: Utopian Constructions of Sexual Difference 4. Matriarchy and Maternalism: Nurture and Nature as Social Critique 5. Utopias of the Dionysian 6. From Pedagogical Province to Primitivist Utopia 7. Beyond the Blueprint: Utopias of Postmodernity

O autorze

Caitriona Dhuill