This book presents an exploration of the reinvented utopia that provided second-wave feminists of the 1970s with a conceptual space to articulate the politics of change. Tatiana Teslenko argues that utopian fiction of this decade offered a means of validating the personal as well as the political, and of criticizing a patriarchal social order. Teslenko reveals feminists' attempt through fiction to envision a new political order.
In her examination of two novels of the 70s - Dorothy Bryant's "The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You" and Joanna Russ's "The Female Man" - Tatiana Teslenko provides a comprehensive account of the generic strategy of feminist Utopian fiction.
