![]() ![]() ![]() The novel, by depicting a productive and peaceful society consisting only of women, dramatises the belief that the economic dependence of women was not only an artificial and discriminatory system but one which also, by adversely affecting the functioning of society as a whole, retarded the progress of socialism, which political philosophy informed much of early feminist thought. ![]() The first feminist utopia, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, is examined in chapter one. This dissertation follows the evolution the genre, focusing on the changes it reflects in the strategies of utopian writing and, more specifically, on the developments that have occurred within feminism itself. The genre of feminist utopias has its origin in the first wave of feminism which rose up in the late nineteenth century. ![]()
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