Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions

This study examines feminist speculative fiction from the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, and finds within it a new vision for the future. Rejecting notions of postmodern utopia as exclusionary, Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor advances one defined in terms of hospitality, casting what she calls ''imaginative sympathy'' as the foundation of utopian desire. Tracing these themes through the ...