ABSTRACT
In Chapter 1, approaches to utopianism that privilege its form and content were found to contribute to what I have called the standard colloquial view of what constitutes a utopia. These approaches were, in the large part, rejected because I found them to produce inappropriate and unacknowledged closed representations of utopianism (and of feminism). They construct what I have called the myth of utopia. Utopian thought is far more interesting and complex than is allowed by the standard view of utopia as a genre that represents a perfect society and offers a blueprint for change.
