Margaret Atwood is not the best spokesperson for feminism because activists and authors necessarily have different agendas.
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Tag Archives: Margaret Atwood
Atwood: Flawed Activist, Genius Author
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Atwood’s Jezebels at the Presidents Club
The Presidents Club scandal bears much resemblance to “the Club” in “Handmaid’s Tale” to which the Commander takes Offred.
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How Atwood Rescued This Single Mom
In an inspiring story, single mom Ashley found Atwood’s novels helped her turn her life around.
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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’s Novels in the News
Atwood’s unsettling predictions registered two hits this past week: a GOP Congressman pressuring assistants to be surrogate mothers and recent reports of pigs engineered to carry human organs.
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Margaret Atwood’s Green Christians
Margaret Atwood imagines a cult of green Christians in “Year of the Flood.”
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Atwood’s Year of the Flood–Our Future?
Atwood lays out the social devastation that can arise from extreme climate events in “Year of the Flood.” Some of her predictions are starting to come true.
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Handmaid’s Emmy, A Sign of Its Urgency
The Emmys signaled that “Handmaid’s Tale” is as relevant as ever as America’s misogyny deepens. So is Euripides’s “The Bacchae.”
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