LITR 5439 Literary & Historical Utopias

Feminist Utopias & Women's Communities

Criticism / literary history of fictional feminist utopias

Noah Berlatsky, "Imagine There's No Gender: The Long History of Feminist Utopian Literature," The Atlantic 15 April 2013

Bustle: "13 Novels about Feminist Utopias" (2018)

Transcript of Marge Piercy speech on women's utopian fiction

Particular fictional feminist utopias

Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future (1889)

Mary E. Bradley Layne, Mizora: A Prophecy (1890)

Joanna Russ, The Female Man (1975)

Women's retreats

Akashavana

A Woman's Way

Journeys of the Spirit: Women's Retreats

Portals to the Self: A Women's Circle by the Sea

Campanella's City of the Sun