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The Yellow Wallpaper
6000-word short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Seminal feminist work. Treatment of madness in women. 'Hysterics'. Medical knowledge is masculine. Link to Connie's madness in 'Woman on the Edge of Time' and 'The Madwoman in the Attic'.
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Herland
A Lost Feminist Utopian Novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
About an isolated community composed entirely of women. First female utopia that may have influenced the non-gendered utopias of Whileaway in 'The Female Man' and Gethen in 'The Left Hand of Darkness'.
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The Left Hand of Darkness
Novel by Ursula Le Guin, depicting a haemaphroditic androgynous society. However the androgynes seem to be basically all male, and femininity is eliminated. The two countries seem to be a comparison of political ideology (monarchy and semi-democracy vs communism) rather than modes of conception (deep ecology vs capitalism) that I am interested in for an ecofeminist analysis. Wikipedia Article -
The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
A feminist classic by Shulamith Firestone. Clear radical feminism. Quote from book: 'We haven't even a literary image of this future society; there is not even a <i>utopian</i> feminist literature yet in existence.' Radical feminist work that outlines her requirements of a feminist utopia. Wikipedia Article -
The Girl Who Was Plugged In
Short Story by James Tiptree Jr (aka Alice Sheldon). Not a utopia, but a cyberpunk dystopia with ultra-sexualised and objectified females that can reward comparison with the alternative dystopic future of Gildina in 'Woman on the Edge of Time' and comparison with the full-changed and half-changed men in Jael's universe in 'The Female Man'. Wikipedia Article -
The Dispossessed
Novel by Ursula Le Guin, part of the Hainish Cycle. Utopic anarchy of Anarres is contrasted with sister planet Urras. Wikipedia Article -
The Female Man
Written in 1970 by Joanna Russ, published in 1975.
Janet Evason's female-only Whileaway is the utopia, and Jael's War of the Sexes universe is the counterpoint dystopia. Wikipedia Article -
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston
By Ernest Callenbach, published in the same year as Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang. Wikipedia Article -
Woman on the Edge of Time
Novel by Marge Piercy. Connie visits the future Mattapoisett, a utopia that makes her world seem an utter dystopia (from her marginalised viewpoint). However, Piercy does offer a proper dystopia with Gildina's polluted world. Wikipedia Article -
Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
Short Story by James Tiptree Jr. (aka Alice Sheldon). Wikipedia Article
