![]() ![]() ![]() Is this the utopia I would go for? Well, in many ways no. Neighbouring communities consider their respective needs and debate until consensus on how to live with each other and the land. For the big party, everyone gets dressed up in fabulous Gaga-esque biodegradable outfits. ![]() We meet a young teenager playing a harp to a room of sleeping babies. Each has a room of their own, creating a rhizomatic network of closely related individuals, with no nuclear or hierarchical relationships, intimate or familial. Pronouns are non‑gendered and every child has three co-mothers until they turn 13 and pick their own name, off in the forest.Įveryone’s in functional polyamorous relationships. No one bears children and male‑bodied people produce milk. Piercy’s utopia elaborates on contemporary political and scientific experiments in horizontal living/organising and computer technology. Woman on the Edge of Time depicts parallel stories: 1970s New York, where incidents will fate a potentially utopic or dystopic future, and the year 2137. Piercy gives space in her work to women’s experiences and relationships, often, as in this novel, to queer women and women of colour. Like many of Marge Piercy’s page‑turning works of fiction, her well-crafted narrative is led by affectionately observed and likeably flawed characters. A journey through resistance and revolution, Woman on the Edge of Time expresses the personal in the political by exploring the body as a site of resistance. ![]()
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