Gender and Utopian Visions in a Post-Utopian Era

Americanism, Human Rights, Market Fundamentalism

Bibliographic Data

ID9645276
AuthorsMary Nolan (0009-0003-8955-1481, New York University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume44
Issue1
Pages13-36
Publication date2011-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCentral European History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-9389 • E-ISSN: 1569-1616
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0008938910001160
OpenAlexW1971292330
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited72

Utopian visions that produced distinctly dystopic projects are rightly associated with the catastrophically violent and repressive first half of twentieth-century European history— “the age of extremes” in Eric Hobsbawm's apt phrase. National Socialism, fascism, communism, and European colonialism represented totalizing, highly ideological visions of how politics and economics, society and culture should be dramatically reorganized. Each of these projects deployed gendered rhetorics and representations; each was explicitly preoccupied with redefining masculinity and femininity, marriage and family, domesticity and sexuality. Each sought to subordinate individuals to an overarching social project, integrating some, excluding others, always elaborating complex hierarchies of gender, race, and culture

Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Communism · Femininity · Fundamentalism · Human sexuality · Ideology · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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