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With its tone of go-girl defiance, the Hulu series forces Margaret Atwood’s novel from the Reagan era into another perverse period for feminism—our own.

It has been banned in schools, made into a film and an opera, and the title has become a shorthand for repressive regimes against women. By Margaret Atwood

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian and theocratic state that has replaced the United States of America. Because of dangerously low reproduction rates, Handmaids are assigned to bear children for elite couples that have trouble conceiving. Offred serves

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The Handmaid's Tale (The Classic Collection) [Margaret Atwood, Claire Danes] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Audie Award, Fiction, 2013 Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale explores a broad range of issues relating to power

In the mid-1980s near Boston, Massachusetts, a cabal of rightwing fundamentalists murders the U.S. President and members of Congress, disenfranchises women by i

The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel[2] by Canadian author Margaret Atwood.[3][4] The book was originally published in 1985. Set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian, Christian theonomy that has overthrown the United States government.[5] The novel focuses on the journey of the handmaid Offred. Her name derives from the possessive form "of Fred"; handmaids are forbidden to use their birth names and must echo the male, or master, whom they serve.