The treatment of gender in feminist Utopias.

• Main Author: Ng, Timothy Yi Peng.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48899
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Utopia, a genre whose name was first coined by Thomas More in a similarly titled book, carries with it two meanings in its name. It can be used to describe a “good place” or “no place”, depending on how one reads the Greek pun that is intrinsic in reading the book and the genre. With these paradoxes...