The particular novels were chosen because, as argued by this thesis, they embrace anti-authoritarian perspectives through utopian and dystopian tensions incorporating an understanding of utopia as both a literary mode and a form of social struggle, which involves gender liberation, class struggle and the abolition of hierarchical and capitalist structures. This thesis explores the relationships between science fiction, radical feminism, and social transformation through an analysis of feminist science fiction novels by Marge Piercy, Monique Wittig and Ursula Le Guin – works that also draw connections to radical feminism. In the framework of the present, where patriarchy remains a fundamental basis for social and political organization, reinforced by capitalism (as an economic as well as a political system), the reconsideration and in-depth examination of works of feminist science fiction that not only criticize the patriarchal/ capitalist system, but also elaborate on alternative forms of organization (such as the novels discussed in this paper), continue to be meaningful. At the same time, in an era when gender equality has been only ostensibly attained, and when social and political organization continue to be based upon patriarchal structures, feminism remains relevant. Its name is freedom.Feminist science fiction as a literary sub-genre emerged in the 1960s, next to the development of radical feminism as a political theory, and was clearly influenced by it. The name of our beautiful reward is not profit. I’ve had a long career and a good one, in good company, and here, at the end of it, I really don’t want to watch American literature get sold down the river. … Power can be resisted and changed by human beings resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art-the art of words. Its power seems inescapable so did the divine right of kings. The profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art.
Right now, I think we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. We will need writers who can remember freedom: poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality. And even imagine some real grounds for hope. Contexto: I think hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being.
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