| Description |
xxvii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Cartoons / Mary Anne Shea -- Preface What do women want? / Ruby Rohrlich -- Introduction : The quest and the questions. I / Elaine Hoffman Baruch -- The quest and the questions. II / Ruby Rohrlich -- Part one : The distant past -- Rethinking matriliny among the Hopi / Diane LeBow -- Women of the Celtic Tuath / Geraldine Day McNelly -- Women in transition : Crete and Sumer / Ruby Rohrlich -- Al dente / France Burke -- Part two : The recent past -- The Shakers : gender equality in heirarchy / Ruby Rohrlich -- Frances Wright : utopian feminist / Marilyn Bensman -- The song of Sojourner Truth / June Jordan -- Housework and utopia : women and the Owenite socialist communities / Jill Harsin -- What's that smell in the kitchen? / Marge Piercy -- The Woman's Commonwealth : utopia in nineteenth-century Texas / A. Harriette Andreadis -- Part three : Contemporary directions -- A utopian female support network : the case of the Henry Street Settlement / Blanche Wiesen Cook -- Mujeres Libres and the role of women in anarchist revolution / Marha A. Ackelsberg -- A litany for survival / Audre Lorde -- Women in the Children of God : "revolutionary women" or "mountin' maids"? / Ruth Elizabeth Wangerin -- Tulsa / Ntozake Shange -- Findhorn, Scotland : the poeple who talk to plants / Arlene Sheer -- Twin Oaks : a feminist looks at indigenious socialism in the United States / Batya Weinbaum -- Utopia in question : programming women's needs into the technology of tomorrow / Jan Zimmerman -- The craft of their hands / Frances Whyatt -- Imagining a different world of talk / Barrie Thorne, Cheris Kramarae, and Nancy Henley -- The linguistic transformation of womanhood / H. Lee Gershuny -- Part four : visons of utopia -- Women in men's utopias / Elaine Hoffman Baruch -- Motherhood in feminist utopias / Susan H. Lees -- Realities and fictions : lesbian visions of utopia / Tucker Farley -- Neither Arcadia nor Elysium : E.M. Broner's A weave of women / Dinnah Pladott -- The land of ordinary people : for John Lennon / Eleanor Arnason -- Of time and revolution : theories of social change in contemporary feminist science fiction / Carol S. Pearson -- Change and art in women's worlds : Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos : archives / Lee Cullen Khanna -- Therrillium / Mischa Adams -- Outcome of the matter : the sun / Marge Piercy -- A women's museum of art / Ann Sutherland Harris -- Future visons : today's politics : feminist utopias in review / Sally Miller Gearhart -- Fantasia / Eve Merriam |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
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Includes index |
| Subject |
Feminism -- History.
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Utopias -- History.
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Women -- History.
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| Author |
Baruch, Elaine Hoffman.
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Rohrlich, Ruby.
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| LC no. |
83040467 |
| ISBN |
0805207627 (paperback) |
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0805239006 |
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