Woman on the Edge of Time

Woman on the Edge of Time is a 1976 novel by the American writer Marge Piercy, a landmark of feminist utopian fiction that blends science fiction with a searing portrait of poverty and psychiatric abuse. Connie Ramos, a Mexican American woman in New York who has been unjustly committed to a mental institution, is contacted by a visitor from the year 2137 and travels to an egalitarian, ecological future society, while also glimpsing a dystopian alternative, as she resists the experiments being performed on her.

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Margaret Atwood: “These are some of the books I have read and enjoyed. … It tackles various social issues, especially those concerning gender, unsparingly and with considerable ferocity, and forces the reader to decide how he or she might solve these problems.”