![]() ![]() ![]() Piercy’s poems are mostly known to be simple and vivid. She has written numerous works, including novels and poetry books, which explore issues about women. Marge Piercy is particularly known as a female writer as well as a feminist activist. This present study would like to examine how women are oppressed by the patriarchal society in the selected poems written by one of the contemporary American female writers, Marge Piercy. In the following pages, I will discuss the concepts of class, gender, and race, and how these issues are used in Piercy’s masterpiece Woman on the Edge of Time to set light on some atrocities of her contemporary world, and at the same time, to provide a utopian future alternative she intentionally urges her readers to think about and if possible to work for. ![]() ![]() Race, gender and class are related in sense that all of them bring suffering to people and are used by any social domineering authority to persecute and dominate those oppressed people. People who suffer the effects of these problems struggle for survival and consider themselves in wars with their oppressors as Bee, one of Piercy’s characters in the novel, states, “We’re all at war” (Piercy, p. These matters cause struggle and wars among social classes and individuals as well. In her utopian novel Woman on the Edge of Time (1976), Marge Piercy critically addresses class, gender, and race as political and social issues in the contemporary society. ![]()
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