Gender utopias for a post-apocalyptic world / edited by Jorge Leon Casero, Julia Urabayen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

León Casero, Jorge, 1982- editor.

Urabayen Pérez, Julia, 1972- editor.

Series:

Gender Issues and Challenges

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role.

Gender identity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated

New York, New York : Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, [2022]

Summary:

Since its inception in the 15th century, the modern humanist project developed in the West has always been linked to the utopian writings and imaginaries that have determined the characteristics of the supposed ideal society to be created. The fundamental issue is that all these projects have always emphasized the social hierarchy (class), heteropatriarchy (gender), territorial organization (colonialism and race) and the technical domain of nature (environment), regardless of whether private property of the means of production was defended or criticized. The current prevailing discourse, on the other hand, maintains a completely anti-utopian attitude from two fronts that are divergent in their starting points but convergent in their ultimate consequences. The first, with a greater presence in the environmental and technological field, is characterized by a dogmatic and uncompromising application of the principle of responsibility defined by Hans Jonas. The second, with greater application in socio-economic areas, renews the already old postulate of the "end of history" through an accelerationist-apocalyptic interpretation that identifies the current techno-capitalism with the hopeless collapse of human civilization. This book is based on the consideration that both fronts derive from a unilateral and reductionist notion of utopia, limited to the political-administrative character of public institutions, conceived under the public-private binarism of class defined during the 19th century: liberalism-capitalism vs socialism-communism. Given this position, the contributions collected in this book broaden the sociopolitical consideration of the utopian from an intersectional point of view (gender, race, class, species), identifying (the socio-symbolic organization of) sexuality as the key element from which to propose new utopian projects beyond the (human) binary of gender. With this background in mind, the seven chapters that make up this book have been divided into two non-antagonistic and non-exclusive sections. In the first, Gender Utopias in and against the Modern Project, three historical reflections are found that analyze and rescue some of the first utopian projects with a gender character conceived from a gnosological horizon and with the concepts of modern political theory in an attempt to expand, and make them work against, their heteropatriarchal-colonialist character, or at least evidence, denounce and criticize their insufficiency.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

The Post-Apocalyptic Genderings of Future Compostwealths

References

Section 1: Gender Utopias in and Against the Modern Project

Chapter 1

Once upon a Time in the Modern Age: Women Who Dreamt of New Egalitarian Worlds

Abstract

Introduction

A World Ruled by a Woman

A Society Improved by Women

A World Exclusively for Women

Conclusion

Chapter 2

Women of the World United: Gender and Utopia in Flora Tristán

Flora Tristán And Utopia

Flora Tristán and Gender

Chapter 3

Carole Pateman's Sexual Contract: Some Historiographical Challenges on Colonial and Modern Latin America

Marriage

Employment

Justice

Section 2: Radical Hybridizations for Other Genders/Worlds

Chapter 4

The Queer Politics of Prison Abolition: Revisiting the Case of Latisha King

Theorizing Utopia: Elsewhere and Otherwise

Animating Utopia

Foreclosing Utopia, Redeeming Carceralism

Trans Murder and the Limits of Love

Conclusion: "What Do You Do with Someone Like That?" Abolition as Utopia, Utopia as Abolition

Chapter 5

Dealing with Oppression and Hybridity in Octavia E. Butler's Critical Dystopian Short Stories

The Emancipatory Role of Language in Dystopias

Language and Literacy in Octavia E. Butler's Short Stories

Negotiation as a Resistance Strategy against Oppression

Translation as a Survival Strategy in Favor of Hybridty

Chapter 6

Some Reflections on Utopia, Gender and Decoloniality

Introduction: Utopia

Gender

Decoloniality

The Rough Edges of Utopias

Revisiting the Problem

Acknowledgment.

References

Chapter 7

"A Voice without an Owner": María Galindo and the Feminist Utopia of Mujeres Creando

A Sense of Period

Depatriarchalize as Utopia

Political Metaphors

The Bastarda

Conclusion: Factories of Justice

Biographies

Editor

Chapter Authors

Index

Blank Page.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Casero, Jorge León Gender Utopias for a Post-Apocalyptic World

ISBN:

9798886972993

OCLC:

1348481149