Connie finds no mercy and respect within the hospital, everybody considers her insane. From the first pages, we see the treatment of women in comparison with men, taking into consideration their social status. The healthcare staff treats the patients relying on their race, gender, and nationality. In this book, Marge Piercy emphasizes that the healthcare system and mental care in particular are used as an effective tool of sexism as well as racism. Hence, apart from the problem of gender distinction it is necessary to consider the state of medical ethics towards mentally ill patients. Racial distinctions discourage the hospital staff to understand the reason for mental illness. Connie also realizes that the humiliation she feels is due to her being a Mexican-American woman. However, in real time the doctors do not care about the woman’s past and expressed their prejudiced attitude to the patient. There are no words “mother” or “father” that determine the sexist belonging.

In other words, all the attributes of gender similarity disappear (Sayer 147). The children are created in artificial wombs and were brought up in the family of three parents. The future world is peaceful and quiet where women and men are equal and both could suckle their children as well. Her ability to see the future of 2137 horrifies her because the world that she sees differs greatly from the world she lives in. The doctors declare her totally insane since she is unable to perceive the reality.

The writer depicts the story of a woman in her mid-thirties who gets to a mental hospital after her husband’s death. “Woman of the Edge of Time” by Marge Piercy can be considered as a fantastic utopian novel about gender equality the horrific novel about the limitation of human evolution.

A woman on the edge of time