This examine examines feminist speculative fiction from the past due 20th- and early twenty-first century, and unearths inside it a brand new imaginative and prescient for the long run. Rejecting notions of postmodern utopia as exclusionary, Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor advances one outlined by way of hospitality, casting what she calls "imaginative sympathy" because the beginning of utopian hope. Tracing those topics during the works of Atwood, Butler, Lessing, and Winterson, in addition to these of famous Muslim feminists resembling El Saadawi, Parsipur, and Mernissi, Wagner-Lawlor balances literary research with leading edge extensions of feminist philosophy to teach how inclusionary utopian considering can tell and advertise political corporation. studying those modern fictions finds the rewards of getting to a group that recognizes distinction, variety, and the innovative strength of each man or woman.
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