Brimate's review
Woman on the Edge of Time
by Marge Piercy
I am glad you liked it. Definitely one of my favorites and I also try to get all my friends to read it. Its so brilliant...
I also agree with its brilliance. It was provoking in a way that touched on so many schools of thought from the feminist utopia to sexual freedoms and the dispelling of and displacing of ego to anarchy and community thought. And it was written in a way that still applies to modern-day living even though it was written over 20 years ago? Seriously.
Brimate's review
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
Brimate's review
rating:
bookshelves:
anarchism,
feminism,
utopia-dystopia-other-world
recommended for: prisoners, insurrectionists, anarchists, feminists, people who want to get free now!
Woman of the Edge of Time is nuts. It's radical feminist sci-fi that's part future utopia, part powerful critique of current fucked-up society, part tale of liberation.
The whole text is engaging, but for some reason it took me a while to read it. The protagonist is a poor Chicana woman in New York labelled insane.
I'm on a feminist & utopian fiction kick and this is a wonderful addition. It's an amazing book and I think it is---or should be---a feminist/radical/sci-fi classic. Much more so than The Female man, which I read before this one (and is apparently a feminist sci-fi classic). Marge Piercy is pretty awesome, and hopefully someday I'll get to read more of her work. I think I'll find out more about her on wikipedia now. And I want to get all my friends to read this
The whole text is engaging, but for some reason it took me a while to read it. The protagonist is a poor Chicana woman in New York labelled insane.
I'm on a feminist & utopian fiction kick and this is a wonderful addition. It's an amazing book and I think it is---or should be---a feminist/radical/sci-fi classic. Much more so than The Female man, which I read before this one (and is apparently a feminist sci-fi classic). Marge Piercy is pretty awesome, and hopefully someday I'll get to read more of her work. I think I'll find out more about her on wikipedia now. And I want to get all my friends to read this
I am glad you liked it. Definitely one of my favorites and I also try to get all my friends to read it. Its so brilliant...
I also agree with its brilliance. It was provoking in a way that touched on so many schools of thought from the feminist utopia to sexual freedoms and the dispelling of and displacing of ego to anarchy and community thought. And it was written in a way that still applies to modern-day living even though it was written over 20 years ago? Seriously.