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Rethinking the utopian vision: Feminism and the issue of 'womyn-born-womyn'. (Abstracts).(Brief Article)
From: Women and Language
Date: 20020922
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Rethinking the utopian vision: Feminism and the issue of 'womyn-born-womyn', Mary Gebhart, Michigan State Univ.
This paper interrogates the legacy of utopianism and the implications of the use of the category "woman" through a discussion of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's novel Herland, and the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival "womyn-born womyn" admission policy. Gilman's work offers insight into a utopian literary vision of a world without men while the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival offers women the actual experience of living in such a world, for one week a year. Recent ...
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