1st Edition

Partial Visions

By Angelika Bammer Copyright 1991
    206 Pages
    by Routledge

    206 Pages
    by Routledge

    Positing that a radical utopianism is one of the most vital impulses of feminist politics, Partial Visions traces the articulation of this impulse in the work of Euro-American, French and German women writers of the 1970s. It argues that this feminist utopianism both continued and reconceptualized a critical dimension of Left politics, yet concludes that feminist utopianism is not just visionary, but myopic - time and culture bound - as well.

    Introduction; Chapter 1 “Wild Wishes…”: Women and the History of Utopia; Chapter 2 Utopia and/as Ideology: Feminist Utopias in Nineteenth-Century America; Chapter 3 Rewriting the Future: The Utopian Impulse in 1970s’ Feminism; Chapter 4 Worlds APart : Utopian Visions and Separate Spheres’ Feminism; Chapter 5 The End(s) of Struggle: The Dream of Utopia and the Call to Action; Chapter 6 Writing Toward the Not-Yet: Utopia as Process; Chapter 7 Conclusion;

    Biography

    Angelika Bammer is Assistant Professor of German and Women’s Studies at Emory University.