![]() Young’s Retreat: As It Was! (1979), and Judy Grahn’s Mundane’s World (1988). Gearhart is not alone in this rejection of science, and I consider other feminist utopias for historical context as well, including Dorothy Bryant’s The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You (1976 first published in 1971 as The Comforter), Donna J. As Eric Otto (2012) has argued, Gearhart’s ecofeminism is ultimately essentialist in addition, the gender essentialism of The Wanderground relies upon and endorses a rejection of science. ![]() ![]() Sally Miller Gearhart’s The Wanderground (1979) is a feminist separatist utopia in which women reject science as masculine and dangerous and return to a more “natural” way of life, living outside of cities in loose communities and psychically communicating with each other and the natural world. “‘The Revolt of the Mother’: Romanticizing Nature and Rejecting Science in Sally Miller Gearhart’s The Wanderground and Other Feminist Utopias,” in Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction, edited by Douglas A. ![]()
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