"What her soul could imagine": envisioning human flourishing in Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time

This paper examines the feminist utopian community of Mattapoisett in Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time. Employing Martha Nussbaum's concepts of the jjudicious reader" and the role that literary imagination can play in public life, I explore the success of this community in ter...

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Yazar: Kim Trainor
Materyal Türü: Printed Book
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Contemporary Justice Review Vol. 8, No. 1, March 2005, pp. 25-38 2005
Online Erişim:http://10.26.1.76/ks/001902.pdf
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