With Hulu set to release “Handmaid’s Tale” tomorrow, I gather together all my past posts on Atwood’s dystopian classic. The novel isn’t only important for liberals but has lessons for rightwing women as well.
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Handmaid’s Tale, More Relevant Than Ever
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Rakunks & Wolvogs & Pigoons, Oh My!
As gene splicing becomes more common, we need novels like Margaret Atwood’s “Oryx and Crake” to point out the dangers. By making connections, good dystopian fiction serves to wakes us up.
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Schlafly, Model for Atwood’s Serena Joy
Recently deceased Phyllis Schlafly served as the model for Serena Joy in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel “Handmaid’s Tale.” Because Serena Joy gets the society she says she wants, however, her life turns bitter. Schlafly was lucky to live in a society that allowed women to have their own careers.
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Atwood’s Dystopias & the Gun Business
Margaret Atwood’s recent dystopian fictions capture how capitalism preys upon sex and fear. We don’t have to travel into the future as the gun industry is taking full advantage of our fears in the present.
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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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Teaching Gender Sensitivity at West Point
Margaret Atwood’s “Handmaid’s Tale” is required reading for entering West Point cadets. Good things could happen.
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Atwood vs. Unregulated Capitalism
Atwood’s dystopian novel is about a future of unregulated high tech capitalism.
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