Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) draws on:
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Correct answer: A. Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex
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Firestone (1970) called for artificial reproduction to free women from biology. Piercy's utopian Mattapoisett gestates babies in 'brooders'. Atwood (1985) and Haraway (1985) came later.
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