Feminist Utopias

I found a nice definition of "feminist utopian novel" in an essay by Sally Miller Gearhart, "Future Visions: Today's Politics: Feminist Utopias in Review" in Women in Search of Utopia: Mavericks and Mythmakers edited by Ruby Rohrlich and Elaine Hoffman Baruch, page 296. "A feminist utopian novel is one which a. contrasts the present with an envisioned idealized society (separated from the present by time or space), b. offers a comprehensive critique of present values/conditions, c. sees male institutions as a major cause of present social ills, and d. presents women not only as at least the equals of men but also as the sole arbiters of their reproductive functions."

For myself, I'm only considering for this page, works that present a society in which no sex is treated unjustly. No anti-male bias, no anti-woman bias, no anti-whatever-genders-there-are bias.

• Allegra, Donna. "A Toast of Babatine." Sinister Wisdom, #34, Berkeley, CA, 1988. [an egalitarian all-woman society]
• Dorothy Bryant's The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland [an all-woman society but visiting male is treated well]
• Grahn, Judy. Mundane's World (1988)
• Hossain, Rokeya Sakhawat. "Sultana's Dream" (1905) [a short story in which the Sultana visits Ladyland, where purdah has been reversed to the great benefit of the land]
• Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed
  --. Always Coming Home
• Pat Murphy's The City, Not Long After
• Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time
• Joan Slonczewski's A Door Into Ocean [an all-female egalitarian society; but males from other societies are treated as equals]
• Starhawk's The Fifth Sacred Thing