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Article: Women, Space, and Utopia, 1600-1800.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- December 22, 2006
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Nicole Pohl. Women, Space and Utopia, 1600-1800.
Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. viii + 200 pp. index. illus. bibl. $89.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5257-2.
Like its subject, Nicole Pohl's Women, Space and Utopia, 1600-1800 is a wide-ranging and hybrid book. The book takes a fresh and innovative approach to a well-traversed topic, moving broadly through a series of different generic variations and manifestations of the notion of utopia. The argument that utopian thought and writing has a specifically gendered aspect is an intriguing insight, even if it might be seen as a rather obvious one--the reader only has ...