In recent years, there has been increasing discontent with feminism’s understanding of its own history and, more specifically, the place of the feminist 1970s. Feminist scholars – most prominently, Elizabeth Freeman, Victoria Hesford, Kate Eichhorn and Kathi Weeks – have sought to move beyond the feelings of progress and nostalgia that the feminist 1970s often inspires. There is a need to mediate between the urge to leave the past behind and the desire to return to it, with feminists adopting positions that ricochet between progress and nostalgia. In this article, I argue that the feminist literary utopia offers a particularly productive means by which to represent this ambivalent, paradoxical temporal understanding. The classic feminist utopias of the 1970s have become the object of critical contention in more recent speculative texts, which destabilise both progress and nostalgia in their evocation of second-wave separatism. To elaborate this claim, I turn to Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army, which critically assesses the feminist 1970s via an account of a separatist feminist enclave in a near-future Britain. The community of women is a homage to the feminist 1970s, displaying both the potentialities of the movements of this time as well as their sometimes violent limitations. The dreams of the 1970s emerge in the text as an unsettling presence in the world, a force that can neither be left behind nor fully embraced.

近年来，对女权主义对其自身历史的理解，尤其是对1970年代女权主义的地位的理解，越来越不满。女权主义学者-最著名的是伊丽莎白·弗里曼（Elizabeth Freeman），维多利亚·赫斯福德（Victoria Hesford），凯特·艾希霍恩（Kate Eichhorn）和凯西·怀特（Kathi Weeks），他们试图超越1970年代女权主义经常激发的进步和怀旧之情。女权主义者采取在进步与怀旧之间between旋的立场，有必要在抛弃过去的渴望与返回过去的渴望之间进行调解。在本文中，我认为女性主义文学乌托邦提供了一种特别有效的手段来代表这种矛盾，矛盾的时间理解。1970年代的经典女权乌托邦已成为近来投机文本中激烈争论的对象，从而使人们对第二波分裂主义的发展既怀念又怀念不安。为了详细说明这一点，我转向莎拉·霍尔（Sarah Hall）的Carhullan军队通过描述不久的将来英国的分离主义女权主义飞地，对女权主义1970年代进行了严格的评估。妇女社区是对1970年代女权主义者的一种敬意，既体现了这一时期运动的潜力，又体现了有时的暴力局限性。文本中出现了1970年代的梦想，这是在世界上令人不安的存在，这是一种既不能留下也不可以完全拥抱的力量。