A review by tofutofutofu
The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future by

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Utopias tends to be boring because everybody tends to be well-behaved to the point where they no longer resemble humans. That's why every utopian story in the history of art introduces a rogue actor to ruin the utopia or reveals that it was never a utopia at all. It's nice to have a variety of perspectives in this book, although the variety undercuts most of the essays, which seem to believe that it is possible to create a society that would satisfy everybody. The only essay which successfully navigates the absurdity of describing a utopia is "Lesbo Island," which is truly the only bit of humor in this excessively earnest collection.