{"title":"Science fiction as desirable feminist scenarios","authors":"Margrit Eichler","doi":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96358-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96358-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Science fiction books are interpreted as one form of scenario writing which, although at present overwhelmingly sexist, nevertheless holds the promise of developing non-sexist scenarios for the future. Five feminist science fiction scenarios are identified and discussed. Although the fictional societies are maximally different in terms of size, level of technological development, and organizational complexity, they all exhibit a radical equalitarianism. It is suggested that sex equality is only thinkable in a context of overall equalitarianism. This, in turn, suggests that the most fruitful strategy for improving the condition of women consists in a general effort to level social differences rather than in particularistic strategies addressed only at women. It suggests further that there should be a potential (although at present not actual) natural alliance between the feminist movement, civil liberties movements, and the ecological movement (which can be interpreted as equalitarianism in assessing present vs future needs).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85875,"journal":{"name":"Women's studies international quarterly","volume":"4 1","pages":"Pages 51-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96358-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89429439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes on contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96283-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96283-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85875,"journal":{"name":"Women's studies international quarterly","volume":"4 1","pages":"Pages vi-vii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96283-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138310995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Janet M. Bujra","doi":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)94484-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)94484-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85875,"journal":{"name":"Women's studies international quarterly","volume":"4 2","pages":"Pages 266-268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)94484-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136771266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The machine in Utopia: Shaker women and technology","authors":"Helen Deiss Irvin","doi":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96515-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96515-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Commonly believed devoted to handcrafts and opposed to technology, the nineteenth-century American Shakers were enthusiastic about the machine, viewing it as a means to a more humane life. Shaker women used, maintained, and even invented labor-saving devices, both in their domestic work and their commercial enterprises. The Shaker view toward women and technology emerged from their egalitarian religious principles that placed an equal value upon the lives of women and men. Shaker women invented the buzz saw, cut nails, and a successful revolving oven, and they were knowledgeable about the operation of machinery. Although they worked long hours at their machines, Shaker women emphasized that their lot was far better than that of unfortunate factory women, because they worked for themselves in pleasant surroundings and rotated work assignments frequently. Hard-working, they decried drudgery, and though they opposed capitalism and the factory system, they maintained a Utopian vision of technology as a source of a better American life.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85875,"journal":{"name":"Women's studies international quarterly","volume":"4 3","pages":"Pages 313-319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96515-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79723652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power, dependency, love and the sexual division of labour","authors":"Margrit Eichler","doi":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)93242-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)93242-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The intent of this paper is threefold: (1) to provide a critique of the currently dominant approach to family power (the decision-making approach), (2) to suggest a possible alternative approach, and (3) to utilize this paper as a case study for examining the gatekeeping functions of traditional journals in preventing feminist critiques from being published. The latter issue will be dealt with in an appendix `On Washing My Dirty Linen in Public' which will discuss the history of this paper.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85875,"journal":{"name":"Women's studies international quarterly","volume":"4 2","pages":"Pages 201-219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)93242-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83068306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shaping futures for women","authors":"Freda L. Paltiel","doi":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96313-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96313-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper, written from a social policy perspective, is predicated on the author's assumption that every adult needs three anchors: work, family and friendship. It briefly examines some of the major future research reports, their premises and their failure to take into consideration altered social roles and altered relations between the sexes. The three-anchor framework is applied to economic, political and psychological roles and institutions in relation to needs, tasks and risks in life and family cycles. It juxtaposes some danger signs with hopeful signs in projecting future scenarios.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85875,"journal":{"name":"Women's studies international quarterly","volume":"4 1","pages":"Pages 13-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96313-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89557285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A feminist perspective on technology and the future","authors":"Joan A. Rothschild","doi":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96373-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96373-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Women have been left out of the mainstream of recorded technological development. Technology, increasingly so in industrialized societies, is male. This means that technology is supported by values of conquest and domination of nature, and pursuit of ‘objectivity’ and ‘rational efficiency’ to the point of irrationality. Integrated with prevailing structures of power, technology grows destructive of human beings and the earth. A feminist perspective can help us move from a hard technology society to a soft technology future in which values such as harmony with nature, subjectivity, co-operation, and non-exploitation become integral to technological development. Three avenues can be explored for ideas and models that can implement a feminist perspective for choices and issues facing our technological future. First, we need to look to the past, and to present pre-industrial cultures, to uncover women's role in technological development. Second, we must look at both the theory and experience of the current feminist movement. And third, we must look to feminist future visions that project alternative technologies and alternative modes of social and econo-political organization. The future technology we seek should be based on a dialectical vision of a creative, dynamic, humanistic technology.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85875,"journal":{"name":"Women's studies international quarterly","volume":"4 1","pages":"Pages 65-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96373-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83930985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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