Marge Piercy

“Women on the Edge of Time” is basically a novel written by Marge Piercy. This book is an indictment of some fundamental assumptions of our society. It also presents the intriguing portrayal of the Utopian alternatives. In this novel, a woman named Connie in the age of 37 has been declared as insane. However, the woman is overwhelmingly sane. She had merely turned into future and is able to communicate with the future year 1937. This paper presents the book review of “Woman on the Edge of Time” written by Marge Percy. This paper reviews the book in three themes Gender Matrix, Sexual Binaries, and Dichotomy. Connie has been confined in a mental hospital for the purpose of mind control treatment. This narrative of realism provides the plausible…

Comparative Essay Feministic ideas, now and over the years, are rooted in the various attitudes of our social and cultural behaviors. To lack the acceptable image created by society is to be labeled less than ideal. Whether by bluntly stating it or carefully hinting the idea, many American poets, novelist, and social activist have, in one way or another, embarked on the idea. In “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin both authors portray the life of a woman…

Dove’s familiar campaign promotes healthy image standards, but ironically the corporation also owns Axe, which is one company that imposes such ideals. From day one, children are bombarded with ads, pictures, and expectations. While there have been movements to improve self-image in adolescents, companies are merely capitalizing on the trend to sell their products without regards for their impacts. Our society defines people by appearance, and individuals cannot escape those superficialities…

Marge Piercy's poem, “Barbie Doll” clearly makes a huge statement about what society does to a women in particular and the damage that is done to women by our society. It also describes that our society objectifies women and values them only for their looks. Women are driven by this pressure to do damaging things in an effort to live up to society’s expectations. This poem describes the effect of unrealistic expectations of beauty on a young girl. It also appears to be telling us a tragically…

background, they have been fired within short time. Why? What do companies and CEOs seek to their employees? Succeeded company have talented people who are not always required educational states, rather companies likely hires who have good nature because companies need a lot of manpower in order to accomplish massive work done; Marge Piercy, political and social activist, displays ideal personalities…

Marge Piercy Marge Piercy is an American poet and novelist. Born in the city of Detroit Michigan in 1936, Marge spent her first years of life with her family struggling through the depression. She went on to be the first of her family to attend college and even won a scholarship to the University of Michigan. She eventually earned a MA from Northwestern University. In the 1960’s she was actively involved in various political movements such as the Students for a Democratic Society also known as…

The Secretary Chant is a poem written by Marge Piercy. Marge Piercy is a novelist, poet, and social activist. She is also wrote many other poems such as Barbie Doll, To Be Of Use, A Work Of Artifice, and many more. The subject of The Secretary Chant is about a secretary who is exhausted of her career. She is overworked of echoing the same aspects of her job. For every poem Marge Piercy writes, she has a message to the readers. I think the message that she is trying announce is that humans get…

Abortion is a steadily growing practice throughout the world. Approximately 50 million abortions are known worldwide each year and only about 1.6 million of those abortions happened in the United States alone (Albatrus). Women have had an abortion to save their careers, relationships, and appearances. In the poem, “The Friend,” Marge Piercy is showing how much men have an impact on women. The man in the poem tells the woman in the poem to chop off her hands. When she says “I love you,” he…

In Marge Piercy’s narrative poem, “Barbie Doll”, the story of a young girl is told from the viewpoint of an outside speaker watching her grow up around the norms of society and ultimately ends her life because of it. Throughout each stanza, a new important piece of information is expressed to the readers to contribute to both the theme and tone of the poem. Piercy is able to cultivate the idea that inward beauty is not valued in today’s society, and that artificial perfection can only be…

If you were told to picture her what would you see? Usually, the answer is along the lines of a woman done up with her hair curled and heels on, cooking dinner as she waits for her husband and children to come home. This domestic role was placed upon women in those eras and the preceding ones. However, this isn’t how they planned to spend the rest of their lives. Women began to slowly revolt. They were sick of the expectations and silently pushed against their roles. In the poem What’s That…