with Stefanie Schaefer and Judith Rauscher

In light of the pending rollback of abortion rights by the US Supreme

Court's conservative majority, Stefanie Schäfer and her guest JudithRauscher turn to a world without men--as imagined in literary texts fromthe turn of the 20th century. Reading feminist utopias such as CharlottePerkins Gilman's Herland (1915) and Mary E. Bardley's Mizora. A Prohpecy(1880/9), they discuss literary representations of an ideal same-sexstate, whiteness, beauty standards, and the interlacing of progressivismand conservative views of womanhood in the US at a time when womenfought for suffrage and civic equality.