Sex in Imagined Spaces

Informationen zum Autor Caitriona Dhuill Klappentext From Thomas More onwards! writers of utopias have constructed alternative models of society as a way of commenting critically on existing social orders. In the utopian alternative! the sex-gender system of the contemporary society may be either reproduced or radically re-organised. Zusammenfassung This book provides the reader with a representative picture of modern utopian imagination in its negotiations with questions of sex and gender, discussing the utopian philosophy of Thomas More and Ernst Bloch. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. No Place Like Here: Utopian Imagination as a Critical Space 2. From Utopian Crisis to Dystopian Response 3. Re-Arranging Gender: Utopian Constructions of Sexual Difference 4. Matriarchy and Maternalism: Nurture and Nature as Social Critique 5. Utopias of the Dionysian 6. From Pedagogical Province to Primitivist Utopia 7. Beyond the Blueprint: Utopias of Postmodernity

Autorentext

Caitriona Dhuill

Klappentext

From Thomas More onwards, writers of utopias have constructed alternative models of society as a way of commenting critically on existing social orders. In the utopian alternative, the sex-gender system of the contemporary society may be either reproduced or radically re-organised.

Zusammenfassung
This book provides the reader with a representative picture of modern utopian imagination in its negotiations with questions of sex and gender, discussing the utopian philosophy of Thomas More and Ernst Bloch.

Inhalt

1. No Place Like Here: Utopian Imagination as a Critical Space 2. From Utopian Crisis to Dystopian Response 3. Re-Arranging Gender: Utopian Constructions of Sexual Difference 4. Matriarchy and Maternalism: Nurture and Nature as Social Critique 5. Utopias of the Dionysian 6. From Pedagogical Province to Primitivist Utopia 7. Beyond the Blueprint: Utopias of Postmodernity