Tina, I posted before I read your message - and it was a good one.
However, I believe that the 'two lines of thought' as you described them
(reducing consumption and slowing growth rates) are not two separate ways
of looking at the problem, nor equal courses of action, because...high
growth rates are a RESULT of overconsumption. Exploitation by the rich
nations keeps the third world at the high birth rate, high death rate stage.
Sue
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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 13:17:26 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: Re: Writing paper on women writers and female utopian societies
In a message dated 17/11/97 19:43:39, Donna Lyn Vicars-Benjamin writes:
> I am just searching for info. on critical reviews of books that have been
> written about female utopian societies or books that are written about
> that subject. The author can actually be by a male or female, can anyone
> give me suggestions.
One I''ve come across is: Bammer, Angelica (1991): *Partial Visions: Feminism
and Utopianism in the 1970s*, London, Routledge.
References I've seen but not checked include:
Mellor, A.K. (1982): "On Feminist Utopias", #Womens Studies - an
Interdisciplinary Journal#, Vol.9, No.3, pp.241-262.
Klarer, M. (1991): "Re-membering Men Dis-membered In Gearhart,Sally,Miller
Ecofeminist Utopia The 'Wanderground'", #Extrapolation, 1991, Vol.32, No.4,
pp.319-330.
Gillman, Charlotte Perkins (): #Herland#.
Murphy, Patrick D (1994): #Literature, Nature, and Other Ecofeminist
Critiques#, Albany, State University of New York Press.
The following may or may not be relevant to your topic, but looks very good
indeed, though I've only briefly scanned it: Paris, Ginnette (1986): #Pagan
Meditations: the Worlds of Aphrodite, Artemis and Hestia#, trans. Gwendolyn
Moore, Dallas, Spring Publications.
The very best writer that I know on the subject of utopia is Ursula le Guin.
Her utopias are not specifically female, so may not be germane to your
purpose. Nevertheless, #Always Coming Home#, and '#Tehanu#, the fourth book
of #Earthsea#, are clearly inflected by a feminist consciousness. See also
her book of essays, #Dancing At The Edge of the World# (HarperCollins 1992),
which includes a wonderful essay on the subject of Utopia, called 'A
Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be'.
Regards
Chris Drinkwater.
