The Dystopian Horror of The Handmaid’s Tale is All too Real for Women Right Now
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Published in The Sydney Morning Herald in May, 2017. It’s hard to imagine a book that resonates with our times as powerfully as The Handmaid’s Tale. Margaret Atwood’s cult 1985 novel tells the story of Gilead, an authoritarian, gender-segregated state that reduces fertile women, who aren’t allowed to read, write or own property, to “handmaids” – sexual […]