Mattapoisett, says Marge Piercy  in the introduction to the new edition of Women on the Edge of Time,   is born of the hunger for something better, but it relies on hope as the engine for imagining such a future. Like most women’s utopias,  Mattapoisett is  profoundly anarchist and aims at integrating people back into the natural world and eliminating power relationships. It was a society in which sex was available, accepted and non-hierarchical – and totally divorced from income, social status, power.