Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s

Tatiana Teslenko teaches at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests are genre studies, feminist criticism, cultural theory, and utopian studies. Most recently, she co-edited The Rhetoric and Ideology of Genre, in which she published a chapter entitled "Ideology and Genre: Heteroglossia of Soviet Genre Theories."

CONTENTS:List of TablesPrefaceIntroductionRhetoric of IdentificationNew Rhetoric of GenreChapter 1: Utopia and UtopianismUtopia and IdeologyUtopia as Literary GenreChapter 2: Utopianism and FeminismScraping False DichotomiesGenre TransformationChapter 3: Dorothy Bryant: Saving the Human RaceThe Real WorldUtopian ChronotopeUtopian PeopleDream-time: Fluid Meaning and Rigid WordThe Law of LightChapter 4: Joanna Russ: New Meaning for Old ConceptsCalculated AmbiguityJanet the SaviorJeannine: Cognitive StarvationJael: Terror of TerrorismJoanna: Usurp the DeniedIdentification RevisitedConclusion: Utopian Genre as Feminist StrategyGlossaryBibliography