![]() ![]() where whatever she says and does is received and recorded as “aggression,” as “bad patient behavior,” until suddenly she is valued at last as a potential subject for a frightening neuro-electric experiment on which hundreds of monkeys have already been “used up.”Īnd with her - as Connie’s determination grows to fight her way out of her powerlessness - we enter the two worlds of the possible future to which she is summoned. And with her we experience the mental hospital where, held against her will, she is faceless, invisible to the attendants, social workers, doctors. With her we experience the New York where Latinos live today without money or hope of it where food, cleanliness, order, and peacefulness are Sunday luxuries where life-force translates as violence. ![]() A Chicana in New York City, she is in her mid-thirties, once beautiful, now worn and disheveled, once a college girl, now a pickpocket, both loving mother and “child abuser” (her child taken from her), a mourning widow (unmarried), a heroically sane woman labeled insane. ![]() The woman “on the edge of time” is Consuelo (Connie) Ramos. With a power and truth that rock us - and through the medium of a woman who becomes vitally alive, important, and dear to us - Marge Piercy moves between a revelation of our present society and a startling twin projection of the possible future. ![]()
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