Woman on the Edge of Time
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