1. Utopian/dystopian thinking in 60s fiction
... currently existing patterns; hence the feminist utopia will often contain an explicit anti-utopia to highlight the present position of women. Women in utopia are the equal of men in politics, work, marriage and academia. In dystopia their energy is consumed in competing for the favours of powerful and wealthy men. Now, although none of these texts referred to were written ... utopia. There had been a number of precedents set, such as the works of H.G.Wells (for example The Story Of The Days to Come, When The Sleeper Awakes and The Time Machine), We by Yevgeny Zamiatin (1924), which was ...
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