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krisheiney 's review for:
Woman on the Edge of Time
by Marge Piercy
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Like most women’s utopias, Woman on the Edge of Time is profoundly anarchist and aimed at integrating people back into the natural world and eliminating power relationships.”
I’ve read a fair few women’s utopias recently and this similarity struck me often as I read this book. A common view in these utopias seems to be that we, globally, are careening toward disaster, and after the disaster those who are left will learn from our mistakes in what they rebuild—and what they leave out. The society here is one that I have a hard time imagining ever coming to be, but there’s so much good to learn from it. I hope we can learn.
And why is it that these anarchist, nature-oriented, power-tearing-down visions are women’s visions?
“Suddenly she thought that these men believed feeling itself a disease, something to be cut out like a rotten appendix. Cold, calculating, ambitious, believing themselves rational and superior, they chased the crouching female animal through the brain with a scalpel.”
I didn’t enjoy having to read Connie imprisoned but it did serve a powerful message. Also an absolute banger of an ending.
I’ve read a fair few women’s utopias recently and this similarity struck me often as I read this book. A common view in these utopias seems to be that we, globally, are careening toward disaster, and after the disaster those who are left will learn from our mistakes in what they rebuild—and what they leave out. The society here is one that I have a hard time imagining ever coming to be, but there’s so much good to learn from it. I hope we can learn.
And why is it that these anarchist, nature-oriented, power-tearing-down visions are women’s visions?
“Suddenly she thought that these men believed feeling itself a disease, something to be cut out like a rotten appendix. Cold, calculating, ambitious, believing themselves rational and superior, they chased the crouching female animal through the brain with a scalpel.”
I didn’t enjoy having to read Connie imprisoned but it did serve a powerful message. Also an absolute banger of an ending.