Margaret Atwood is not the best spokesperson for feminism because activists and authors necessarily have different agendas.
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Atwood: Flawed Activist, Genius Author
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Atwood and the Aziz Ansari Affair
Margaret Atwood is under fire for her cautions about #MeToo movement. Her novels are useful, however, in the Aziz Ansari affair.
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Atwood and a Woman on Death Row
Kelly Gissender, the Georgia woman scheduled to be executed, brings to mind Margaret Atwood’s meditations in “Alias Grace” on what goes on in a woman’s mind.
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Discovering the Bad Girl Within
My student’s project on literary bad girls looks at “Jane Eyre,” Toni Morrison’s “Sula,” and Margaret Atwood’s “Alias Grace.”
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