The linguistic-literary setting in feminist utopias: Margaret Cavendish versus the phallocentric worldview

Abstract

As part of the communication process, textual creation has always been linked to different spaces. Its implications differ when applying a gender perspective, both terminologically and literarily. From a literary framework, Iris Zavala’s feminist perspective is presented, which combines bodily cognition and Margaret Cavendish’s proposals, in contrast to the genealogy of the city in Western tradition as a space that excludes the female subject. It is argued that, consequently, the feminist utopian genre serves as a key strategy of resistance by enabling its publication, allowing it to be signed, and generating new cognitive and discursive frameworks that question and transform the patriarchal order.