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Author Johns, Alessa.

Title Women's utopias of the eighteenth century / Alessa Johns.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description xi, 212 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part 1: defining feminist utopianism -- Mary Astell's "excited needles": imitation, circulation, and a theory of feminist utopia -- Feminist utopia and the new commercialism -- Part 2: women's utopian visions -- Sarah Fielding: ideal readers and utopian commerce -- Reconceiving the contract: Sarah Scott's self-replicating utopia -- Mary Hamilton: plagiarizing utopia -- Reproducing utopia beyond Britain: Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont's The new Clarissa and Sophie von La Roche's Events at Lake Oneida -- Afterword: a middle way.
Subject Feminism -- History -- 18th century.
Feminism.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Utopias -- History -- 18th century.
Utopias.
Women -- History -- 18th century.
Women.
Feminism.
Women's movement.
Women.
Womyn.
ISBN 0252028414 alkaline paper