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Book · 1985 · Fiction

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood
Vintage Classics (Penguin Random House) · 336 pages
★ 7.7 editorial score

In the theocracy that replaced the United States, fertile women are assigned to powerful men to bear their children. Atwood put nothing in it that had not already happened somewhere.

Genre
Dystopian fictionSpeculative fiction
Medium
Novel
Subject
Oppression of womenGender relationsDictatorship
Setting
United States
Time
1985Depicts The Future

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Other media onSubject·Oppression of women
Quote · 1869

“So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.”

John Stuart Mill
Quote · 1957

“I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.”

Robert Mueller
Quote · 1860

“Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customers, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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