Gearheart’s dystopian world looks a lot like the present but is made futuristic by her characters’ abilities: they are able to reach the centre of the world, to fly and make objects levitate, to bear children without men through ovular merging, and to psychically communicate among themselves, with other animals and plants, and in some instances, with ancestors and dead lovers. The Wanderground was a pioneering work for lesbian separatists, but perhaps more lastingly and usefully, eco-feminists. A scratch to the lower spine, otherwise in good condition with map on free end paper. Watertown, Massachusetts: Persephone Press, 1978.įirst edition, first printing. The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women. Every one of these books does show us a glimmer of what a feminist, gender-fluid, or matriarchal utopia could look like, though, and that's pretty darn rare.Sally Miller Gearhart. Illustrations by Elizabeth Ross. And fiction usually needs conflict to get a plot going. The trouble with imagining a perfect society is that, by definition, a true utopia is not going to be rife with conflict. Now, to be clear, these are not all "utopia novels" from start to finish. we can also sometimes imagine nice things happening in the future? Maybe? Here are a few novels that show us feminist utopias, for when you need a serious dystopia antidote. Yes, it's important to protect our reproductive rights and to understand the horrific consequences of government-regulated misogyny. Every once in a while, though, we might want a break from all that gloom and doom.
It would be weird if dystopias weren't in vogue. Our current political landscape is feeling just a tad dystopian at the moment. Dystopias express our cultural anxieties.
From The Handmaid's Tale to The Hunger Games, dystopian novels penned by women have been at the forefront of our imaginations for years now.
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