Chapter 6: A World of One's Own: Separatist Utopias.

Chapter 6 of the book "Narrating Utopia: Ideology, Gender, Form in Utopian Literature" is presented. It examines the separatist utopia which challenges the patriarchal assumptions of the traditional utopia and views a perfect society based on the premise of the absence of men. The separatist fiction...

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Published in:Narrating Utopia: Ideology, Gender, Form in Utopian Literature pp. 176 - 202
Main Author: Ferns, Chris
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Liverpool University Press 2004 Limited 1999
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Summary:Chapter 6 of the book "Narrating Utopia: Ideology, Gender, Form in Utopian Literature" is presented. It examines the separatist utopia which challenges the patriarchal assumptions of the traditional utopia and views a perfect society based on the premise of the absence of men. The separatist fictions, which include "Herland," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and "The Wanderground," by Sally Miller Gearhart, are also discussed.