Every one of these books does show us a glimmer of what a feminist, gender-fluid, or matriarchal utopia could look like, though, and that's pretty darn rare. And fiction usually needs conflict to get a plot going. The trouble with imagining a perfect society is that, by definition, a true utopia is not going to be rife with conflict. Now, to be clear, these are not all "utopia novels" from start to finish. we can also sometimes imagine nice things happening in the future? Maybe? Here are a few novels that show us feminist utopias, for when you need a serious dystopia antidote. Yes, it's important to protect our reproductive rights and to understand the horrific consequences of government-regulated misogyny. Every once in a while, though, we might want a break from all that gloom and doom. It would be weird if dystopias weren't in vogue. Our current political landscape is feeling just a tad dystopian at the moment. Dystopias express our cultural anxieties. From The Handmaid's Tale to The Hunger Games, dystopian novels penned by women have been at the forefront of our imaginations for years now. Books shelved as to-geet: Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women by Sally Miller Gearhart, The Escape Artist by Judith Katz, Inland Passage by Jane Rule.
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