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标题：Utopia and Its Contributions to the Contemporary Studies of Gender
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作者：Maskalan, Ana
期刊名称：Filozofska Istraživanja
印刷版ISSN：0351-4706
出版年度：2009
卷号：29
期号：3
页码：505-524
出版社：Croatian Philosophical Society
摘要：This article discusses the concept and history of utopia with an emphasis on the modern forms of gender utopias. Although it can be said that utopian thought is inherent to humans, today the word ‘utopia’ is generally used in a pejorative meaning of an illusion and/or political concept whose actualization necessarily leads to some form of totalitarianism. These assumptions originated from etymological, historical and conceptional dilemmas associated with utopian theoretical and practical realizations. Describing utopia in terms of critique, hope and imagination as well as linking it with the concept of Mannheim’s active utopia it is possible to find in it elements that can be used for dealing with modern gender and ecological problems. As an example are given feminist utopias in which were tested different gender theories and practices and were suggested solutions for creating not ideal or completed but improved worlds, that is, worlds that allow improvement.
关键词：utopia; utopianism; active utopia; feminist utopia; science fiction