Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference

Illustrations Foreword - Susan Gubar Acknowledgements Contributors 1. Introduction - Jane L. Donawerth and Carol A. Kolmerten 2. The Subject of Utopia - Margaret Cavendish and Her Blazing-World - Lee Cullen Khanna 3. Islands of Felicity - Women Seeing Utopia in Seventeenth-Century France - Ruth Carver Capasso 4. Mothers and Monsters in Sarah Robinson Scott's - Millenium Hall - Linda Dunne 5. Gaskell's Feminist Utopia: The Cranfordians and the Reign of Goodwill - Rae Rosenthal 6. Subjectivity as Feminist Utopia - Jean Pfaelzer 7. Texts and Contexts: American Women Envision Utopia, 1890-1920 - Carol A. Kolmerten 8. Consider Her Ways: The Cultural Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Pragmatopian Stories, 1908-1913 - Carol Farley Kessler 9. Science Fiction by Women in the Early Pulps, 1926-1930 - Jane L. Donawerth 10. Difference and Sexual Politics in Naomi Mitchison's Solution Three - Sarah Lefanu 11. "There Goes the Neighbourhood": Octavia Butler's Demand for Diversity in Utopias - Michelle Erica Green 12. The Frozen Landscape in Women's Utopian and Science Fiction - Naomi Jacobs Notes Works Cited Index