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[[Image:Piercy-WOTEOT.jpg|thumb|right|200px|An early edition]] | [[Image:Piercy-WOTEOT.jpg|thumb|right|200px|An early edition]] | ||
1976 novel by [[Marge Piercy]]. | '''Woman on the Edge of Time''' (sometimes called WOTEOT for short) 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. | |||
==Intertextuality== | |||
Thoughts on childbirth drawn from [[Shulamith Firestone]]'s ''[[The Dialectic of Sex]]'' | |||
[[Category:1976 publications]] | [[Category:1976 publications]] | ||
[[Category:Novels]] | [[Category:Novels]] | ||
Revision as of 20:55, 27 April 2007
Woman on the Edge of Time (sometimes called WOTEOT for short) 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.
Intertextuality
Thoughts on childbirth drawn from Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex