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Article: The future of political community: race, ethnicity, and class privilege in novels by Piercy, Gomez, and Misha.
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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Introduction: Feminism, Utopia, and the Political Critic
FEMINISM HAS ALWAYS CONCERNED ITSELF WITH UTOPIA. To live with the struggles of the present, we project possible futures that promise endpoints to our oppression. We use utopias as ideological playthings: intangible seeds to sow stolen moments of escape, imagined counterarguments to challenge lived polemics, mental blueprints to dismantle and rebuild the world anew. Our minds wander to that which quenches or sharpens, soothes or invigorates, or both. But what determines the path of our imagined utopia? If we write, a significant factor is economics, particularly if we hope to see our speculations published. ...