Woman on the Edge of Time (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Marge Piercy
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Plot: Utopian realism
- Time of Work: The 1970’s and the year 2137
- Setting: New York City and environs, and Mattapoisett, Massachusetts
- Principal Characters: Consuelo (Connie) Ramos, Luciente, Dolly, Geraldo, Luis, Sybil, Bee, Jackrabbit
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Science fiction, Didactic literature, Dystopian fiction, Utopian fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, Child rearing or parenting, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Gender roles, New York City, Social issues, Future, Prostitution or prostitutes, Mental illness, Feminism, Women’s issues, Time travel, Childbirth, Hallucinations or illusions, Androgyny, Utopias, Mental institutions, hospitals or asylums
- Locales: New York, NY, Massachusetts, Mattapoisett, MA
The Novel
Woman on the Edge of Time is a jeremiad, a lament for and a tirade against the plight of woman in the twentieth century. Connie Ramos is a thirty-seven-year-old Chicana, impoverished and without the support of friends or family, who is imprisoned in a mental institution for an alleged outburst of violent behavior. Trapped by a lifetime of deprivation and powerlessness, she is labeled mad, drugged, held captive, and stripped of all personal dignity. The specific degradations of her life in Bellevue Hospital, in Rockover State Psychiatric Institute, and finally...
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