烏托邦與生態想像(1/2)
Date Issued
2005-07-31
Date
2005-07-31
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DOI
932411H002022
Abstract
This project attempts to explore ecological themes prevalent in many
contemporary utopian texts. It studies three ecological utopias in the 1970s with an
aim to uncovering their common concern and divergence, the strategies adopted, and
possible blind spots. Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia (1975), Marge Piercy’s Woman on
the Edge of Time (1976), and Sally Miller Gearhart’s The Wanderground (1979) are
the three texts under scrutiny. Ecological utopias in the 1970s are variegated.
Callenbach’s Ecotopia articulates the 1970s environmental concern as filtered through
the lens of a white middle-class patriarchy. Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time and
Gearhart’s The Wanderground, on the other hand, pinpoint the interconnection of
ecology and feminism, and bring into perspective the dual oppression of women and
nature. Gearhart’s The Wanderground argues eloquently for an alternative
construction of women’s space that subverts patriarchal designation of women and
envisions intimate relationship between women and nature. Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time also articulates ecofeminist vision in its depiction of an alternative
society that is free from gender stereotyping and attentive to environmental issues.
Piercy’s work is simultaneously a covert comment on the essentialist trend in some
ecofeminist philosophy: biological essentialism that envisions a narrow, biological
linkage between women and nature and celebration of “women” at the expense of
their intrinsic differences in terms of race and class. The egalitarian vision of a society
of both men and women of diverse origin offered by Woman on the Edge of Time
destabilizes woman/nature dualism, problematizes the celebration of “woman” per se,
and provides a more viable picture than that offered by either Gearhart or Callenbach.
Subjects
utopia
ecological discourse
SDGs
Publisher
臺北市：國立臺灣大學外國語文學系暨研究所
Type
report
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