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[[Image:Piercy-WOTEOT.jpg|thumb|right|200px|An early edition]] | [[Image:Piercy-WOTEOT.jpg|thumb|right|200px|An early edition]] | ||
'''Woman on the Edge of Time''' (sometimes | '''Woman on the Edge of Time''' (sometimes abbreviated WOTEOT) is a [[1976]] feminist SF novel by [[Marge Piercy]]. | ||
The basic premise is that of a Latina woman in roughly present time, caught in a nexus of time: a turning point between a nearly utopian, communitarian, feminist, democratic, non-racist, and environmentally sustainable community; and its opposite, an authoritarian, militaristic, technological and deeply exploitative society in which women are subordinate to men and both sexes are exploited within a hierarchy. | The basic premise is that of a Latina woman in roughly present time, caught in a nexus of time: a turning point between a nearly utopian, communitarian, feminist, democratic, non-racist, and environmentally sustainable community; and its opposite, an authoritarian, militaristic, technological and deeply exploitative society in which women are subordinate to men and both sexes are exploited within a hierarchy. | ||
This work is wonderfully well-written, and Piercy skillfully interweaves numerous themes: medical paternalism (towards women and people of color in particular), and technology over-leaping human ethics. ''Woman on the Edge of Time'' is an important, inspirational, and thought-provoking work of feminist SF, well-written and absorbing. | This work is wonderfully well-written, and Piercy skillfully interweaves numerous themes: medical paternalism (towards women and people of color in particular), and technology over-leaping human ethics. ''Woman on the Edge of Time'' is an important, inspirational, and thought-provoking work of feminist SF, well-written and absorbing. | ||
===Original blurb=== | |||
<blockquote>Connie Ramos is 37, Mexican-American; a loving mother now labelled a child abuser; an heroically sane woman, now declared insane. Drugged, a helpless inmate of a mental hospital, she is offered only one way back to 'normality' -- participation in a mind-control experiment using electronic implantations in the brain. | |||
But Connie is also a 'catcher', a natural telepath with the ability to enter a Utopian future of ecological and social harmony. As the doctors close in Connie realises she has a fight on her hands -- a fight in which a future world and her own life are at stake.</blockquote> | |||
==Intertextuality== | ==Intertextuality== | ||
Revision as of 13:57, 23 July 2008
Woman on the Edge of Time (sometimes abbreviated WOTEOT) is a 1976 feminist SF novel by Marge Piercy.
The basic premise is that of a Latina woman in roughly present time, caught in a nexus of time: a turning point between a nearly utopian, communitarian, feminist, democratic, non-racist, and environmentally sustainable community; and its opposite, an authoritarian, militaristic, technological and deeply exploitative society in which women are subordinate to men and both sexes are exploited within a hierarchy.
This work is wonderfully well-written, and Piercy skillfully interweaves numerous themes: medical paternalism (towards women and people of color in particular), and technology over-leaping human ethics. Woman on the Edge of Time is an important, inspirational, and thought-provoking work of feminist SF, well-written and absorbing.
Original blurb
Connie Ramos is 37, Mexican-American; a loving mother now labelled a child abuser; an heroically sane woman, now declared insane. Drugged, a helpless inmate of a mental hospital, she is offered only one way back to 'normality' -- participation in a mind-control experiment using electronic implantations in the brain. But Connie is also a 'catcher', a natural telepath with the ability to enter a Utopian future of ecological and social harmony. As the doctors close in Connie realises she has a fight on her hands -- a fight in which a future world and her own life are at stake.
Intertextuality
Thoughts on childbirth drawn from Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex
Further reading
- Book discussion group on feministSF mailing list (June 2002)