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Dhungana, Kishor. "BODY DISCOURSES IN ATWOOD’S THE HANDMAID’S TALE." International Journal of Engineering Applied Sciences and Technology 8, no. 2 (June 1, 2023): 353–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.33564/ijeast.2023.v08i02.054.

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In the gripping dystopian narrative of The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood skillfully weaves together a tapestry of societal despair and resilience. Within the bleak backdrop of a Gileadean republican society, where infertility plagues the land due to environmental pollution and the consequences of unchecked promiscuity, a glimmer of hope emerges. The remaining fertile women are transformed into "handmaids," unwillingly coerced into servitude, tasked with the sacred duty of bearing children for the ruling elite. These women become mere pawns, their bodies manipulated for socio-political gain, reminiscent of the biblical handmaid Bilhah, who found herself in a similar predicament at the side of her master, Jacob. Atwood deftly borrows the term "handmaid" from Genesis 30.1, using it as a scathing commentary on the theocratic society of Gilead and the anguish of barrenness that pervades it. Yet, amidst the oppressive coercion, a paradoxical transformation unfolds. Atwood's masterful exploration delves into the complexities of oppression and resilience, ultimately illuminating the transformative power that can emerge even in the darkest of circumstances.

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Walker, Stephen. "ReviewingThe Handmaid's Tale." Architecture and Culture 1, no. 1 (November 2013): 112–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175145213x13756908698658.

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Williamson, Emma. "The Handmaid's Tale." Journal of Gender-Based Violence 1, no. 2 (December 15, 2017): 261–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/096278917x15048755283779.

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Sauter-Baillet, Theresia. "The handmaid's tale." Women's Studies International Forum 14, no. 3 (January 1991): 231–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0277-5395(91)90119-3.

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Scarce, Rik. "The Handmaid's Tale." Futures 19, no. 4 (August 1987): 488–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0016-3287(87)90013-9.

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Chen, Siyu. "The Metonymy about Power in The Handmaid's Tale." English Literature and Language Review, no. 101 (December 30, 2023): 12–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.32861/ellr.101.12.15.

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As a speculative fiction, the book the Handmaid’s Tale written by the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood shows us a dystopian world where women are under the totalitarian rule by men, and not only women, men are also constrained by the totalitarianism in Gilead. Based on this, by applying the research method of textual analysis, the this paper mainly discusses the metonymies about power reflected in the Handmaid’s Tale, which are manifested in the dress color in Gilead, the stratification of the upper class and the naming of Handmaids in this book. Furthermore, this paper tries to unearth the underlying cause of the metonymies used in the Handmaid’s tale through specific analyses of the metonymies. And based on the result of the analyses, it indicates that to some extent, metonymy here can be a way to achieve power oppression.

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Dymond, Erica Joan. "Atwood's the Handmaid's Tale." Explicator 61, no. 3 (January 2003): 181–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00144940309597803.

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Abbas, Abbas. "THE WOMEN’S SUFFERING IN THE NOVEL THE HANDMAID’S TALE BY MARGARET ATWOOD." JURNAL ILMU BUDAYA 8, no. 2 (October 20, 2020): 332–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.34050/jib.v8i2.11171.

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The research discusses social problems experienced by women in a literary work entitled The Handmaid's by Magaret Atwood Magaret. The social problems in question are discussed the social problem of women that happened in the novel The Handmaid’s Tale and described the impact of social problem on women characters in the novel. The suffering that befell women handmaids such as Offred, Ofglen, Janine, and others occurs in a country called the Republic of Gilead. The research uses the Structuralism Approach, a literary research method that emphasizes structural aspects in the form of character, plot, setting, theme, and others. Gender study in literature becomes the perspective of this research which highlights social injustice towards female characters in the fictional story. The research data are then analyzed by using qualitative research methods and explained descriptively. The results of this study indicate that during the reign of the Gilead Republic, women experienced various social problems in the form of separation from family, not getting proper education, restrictions on freedom, forced childbirth for elite families, and the obligation to perform certain rituals. The social problems experienced by these women resulted in severe depression that almost claimed their lives.

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Sullivan, Rosemary. "What If? WritingThe Handmaid's Tale." University of Toronto Quarterly 75, no. 3 (July 2006): 850–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/utq.75.3.850.

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Babu, Shyam. "Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and An Untold Tale of Subjugation and Eschatological Reality." Dialogue: A Journal Devoted to Literary Appreciation 18, no. 02 (December 2, 2022): 20–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.30949/dajdtla.v18i2.3.

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Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1986) is adystopian novel that opens us to the bizarre reality of women's custodianrape and violence. Things look quite strange and alarming due towomen's oppression which results in a traumatized experience. This isovertly a political novel and tries to spotlight the sense of ineffable lifethat is miserable and also self-revealing. The novel narrates the story ofOffred, a handmaid a sinister handmaid. She was forced to become onedue to the rise of fanatic power in the states of America. America is nowthe Republic of Gilead, where everything is controlled by dominance,oppression, and bigotry. It is, glamorized as a fantasy that impinges onour real life. The novel lends itself to solicit the feminist cause whichleads us to an eschatological reality. Briefly, it tells a tale in the mostpersonal sense about the complicity, fidelity, and betrayal, in the politicalsetup in the contemporary United States.As the novelist, Atwood builds up fine gossamer ofimaginative tale out of a deep love for nature, libertine feminist activismand inclination of science, etc., and perhaps an awful condition we arestruggling to tackle but all in the future time frame.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Handmaid's tale"

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Sarrazin, Timothy M. C. "Reading the Handmaid's tale." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25262014.

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Cheong, Weng Lam. "Beyond a feminist dystopia : Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Thesis, University of Macau, 2009. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2456330.

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Maratta, Tanya <1991&gt. "A Critique of Contemporary World: Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale"." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/12956.

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The thesis analyses Margaret Atwood's renowned "The Handmaid's Tale", showing how the author, through the depiction of a dystopic future world, deals with significant 20th-century issues, such as environmental pollution, racial and sexual inequalities and the dynamics of power and totalitarianisms, for instance, thus criticizing the contemporary world she lived in. As a dystopia, the narrative owes a great deal to Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four". However, at the same time, I demonstrate how the influence of Postmodern literature differentiates it from its predecessors (Orwell, Huxley, Bradbury). Finally, even though it came out in 1985, the novel has continued to be very representative even in the following decades, so much so that in 2017 a tv series by the same title came out.

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Pettersson, Fredrik. "Discourse and Oppression in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-5766.

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Nyberg, Björn. "Sociological Perspectives on Gender and Sexual Violence in The Handmaid's Tale." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-151322.

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This essay aims to highlight and explain the gender inequality, the sexual assault and the rape in Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale from a feminist perspective, using the theory of the individualist, interactionist and institutional approach to gender found in Wharton’s The Sociology of Gender. Research questions: How does gender inequality shape the characters in the novel? What does it mean for them? How can the gender inequalities seen in Gilead society, as well as the sexual violence in the novel, be explained using sociological perspectives on gender? Gender inequality, which is what leads to the sexual violence, is produced on every level of society, and especially at the institutional level of society, that is, the culture of the society.

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Roland, Karla M. "The Symbolic Power of Red in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/167.

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This thesis utilizes red objects in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale to discuss the symbolic meaning of red to the story as a whole and the power relationship among social groups in Gilead. This thesis focuses primarily on the wardrobe of the handmaid and flower imagery to examine red as a manifestation of power in the story.

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Brown, Kimberly Ann. "Denying Authority: Monologic and Dialogic Perspectives in Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625886.

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Marx, Hedvig. "Moira, take me with you! : Utopian Hope and Queer Horizons in Three Versions of The Handmaid's Tale." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Genus, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-148928.

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Using postmodern, feminist and queer notions of utopia/dystopia and narrative theory, this thesis contains an analysis of The Handmaid’s Tale (novel 1985; film 1990; TV series S01 2017) based on theoretical and methodological understandings of utopia/dystopia and narrative as deeply connected with notions of temporality and relationality, and of violence and resistance as the modes of expression of utopia and dystopia in the source texts. The analysis is carried out in an explorative manner (Czarniawska 2004) and utilises the notion of “disidentification” (Butler 1993; Muñoz 1999) and the concepts of “diffraction” (Haraway 1992, 1997; Barad 2007, 2010), and “entanglement” (Barad 2007). The conclusion becomes that utopia and dystopia in The Handmaid’s Tale are, to a great extent, imagined within the same system of understanding, but that utopian hope can be found in the relationality and temporality of resistance, and that the radically different utopian place is the queer horizon.

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DiBenedetto, Tamra Elizabeth. "The role of language in constructing consciousness in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1128.

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Laine-Wille, Ilona. "Literatur als Spiegel : Kulturkritik in Christa Wolfs Kassandra und Margaret Atwoods der Report der Magd." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23338.

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This thesis is a comparative study of two contemporary novels: Christa Wolf's: Cassandra (1983) and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985).
Wolf's Cassandra can be interpreted as a utopian projection. It is an expression of Wolf's not so modest proposal: "Literature today ought to be research on peace."
Atwood examines the underside of hope. While describing the present time as alarming, she speculates about the future. Juxtaposing the two novels provides a view of the political and philosophical imagination of the two authors. The cultural critique is esthetically expanded through the perspective of the protagonists. Both novels can be viewed as archeological work from a female perspective, as they attempt to provide a new vision by uncovering the blind spots of our western socio-political history.

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Books on the topic "Handmaid's tale"

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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. The Handmaid's Tale. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.

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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. The Handmaid's Tale. New York, USA: Fawcett Crest, 1993.

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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. The Handmaid's Tale. London: Virago, 1987.

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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. The Handmaid's Tale. Toronto, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1985.

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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. The Handmaid's Tale. Boston, USA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986.

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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. The Handmaid's Tale. London: Vintage, 1996.

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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. The Handmaid's Tale. New York, NY: Everyman's Library, 2007.

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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. The Handmaid's Tale. Toronto, Ont: McClelland-Bantam, 1989.

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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. The Handmaid's Tale. 2nd ed. London, England: Jonathan Cape, 1986.

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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. The Handmaid's Tale. New York, USA: Fawcett Crest, 1991.

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Book chapters on the topic "Handmaid's tale"

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Bach, Susanne. "Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaid's Tale." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1–2. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_7905-1.

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Muñoz-González, Esther. "The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments." In Posthumanity in the Anthropocene, 40–86. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003348214-3.

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Colm Hogan, Patrick. "Sex Hierarchies and Dystopia: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." In American Literature and American Identity, 219–34. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003211983-12.

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Walker, Nancy. "Ironie autobiography: from The Waterfall to The Handmaid's Tale." In Last Laughs, 203–20. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003273394-14.

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Alexander, Jonathan, and Sherryl Vint. "Feminism, Violence, and the Anthropocene in The Handmaid's Tale." In The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction, 26–32. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003082934-6.

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Meakin, Kam. "Restorative Nostalgia and Historical Amnesia in The Handmaid's Tale Protests." In The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction, 343–50. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003082934-52.

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Newell, Kate. "Transferring Handmaids: Iconography, Adaptation, and Intermediality." In Beyond Media Borders, Volume 2, 33–57. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49683-8_2.

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Abstract This chapter examines the intermedial transfer of Handmaid iconography across platforms and contexts, and the mechanisms that facilitate such movement. The author begins with a consideration of the intermedial network established within Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale to show that, even prior to adaptation, the Handmaid is understood as a product of intermedial transfer. The author then surveys the movement of Handmaid iconography in a variety of print- and motion-based media, such as book cover design, illustration, graphic novel, ballet, film, and television, and also in more generalized spheres. The image of the Handmaid transfers through processes of adaptation that interpret visual markers in distinct modalities, each of which emphasizes particular traits or characteristics over others. The emphasis or disclosure that characterizes each iteration is accompanied by concealment; that is, as an adaptation foregrounds one particular modality, it simultaneously represses another. This tension between disclosing and concealing operates thematically and in terms of its foregrounded media.

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Csordas, Thomas J. "A Handmaid’s Tale." In Body/Meaning/Healing, 88–99. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08286-2_4.

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Howells, Coral Ann. "The Handmaid’s Tale." In Margaret Atwood, 93–109. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-19041-3_7.

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Wells-Lassagne, Shannon. "Filming The Handmaid’s Tale." In Adapting Margaret Atwood, 239–49. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73686-6_15.

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Conference papers on the topic "Handmaid's tale"

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Makaiau, Amber. "The Handmaid's Tale: An International Self-Study About Gender and Career." In 2019 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1433701.

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Kotsiuba, Olena. "THE DYSTOPIAN FORMULA IN MARGARET ATWOOD'S NOVEL THE HANDMAID'S TALE: INTERLACEMENT OF TRADITIONS AND NOVATION." In Innovation in Science: Global Trends and Regional Aspect. Publishing House “Baltija Publishing”, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30525/978-9934-26-050-6-57.

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SOĞUKKUYU, Bahar. "GRAFİK TASARIMDA KADIN ARKETİPLER: HANDMAID’S TALE ÖRNEĞİ." In COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS. ISTANBUL AYDIN UNIVERSITY, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.17932/ctc.2021/ctc21.085.

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Yayınlandığı dönemde ses getiren romanların sinemaya ve/veya diziye uyarlanması, görüntülerin egemen olduğu günümüz medyasında sıklıkla görülmektedir. Margaret Atwood’un 1985 yılında yazdığı distopik roman Handmaid’s Tale/Damızlık Kızın Öyküsü, 2017 yılında aynı isimle diziye uyarlanarak yayınlanmaya başlamıştır. 69. Emmy Ödülleri’nde dram dalında en iyi dizi ödülünü kazanan Handmaid’s Tale, aynı zamanda bilim-kurgu ve gerilim de içermektedir. Handmaid’s Tale’in birçok distopya romanı gibi tekrar gündeme gelmesinin arkasındaki sebeplerden biri, içeriğinde güncel siyasi rejimlerin farklı bakış açılarıyla eleştirilmesidir. Bu çalışmada Handmaid’s Tale romanı için hazırlanan kitap kapak tasarımlarının, biçimsel açıdan grafik tasarım unsurları, biçim ve içerik bağlamında ise göstergebilim yöntemi dikkate alınarak incelenmesi amaçlanmaktadır. Görsel tasarım elemanı olarak renk, kimliğini kanıtlayan tasarımlar için simgesel minimalist anlatım amacıyla da kullanılabilmektedir. Kırmızı ile siyah kullanılarak, dizi aracılığıyla geniş kitleler tarafından tanınan kadın arketip Offred (Elisabeth Moss), sıklıkla görsel yorumlamalar olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Tasarımlarda kağıtların kesilerek eksiltilmesi, Gestalt yasalarından gözün tamamlama yasası gibi yöntemlere dayanan grafiksel çözümlemeler görülmektedir. Çalışmada, Handmaid’s Tale için hazırlanan kitap kapak tasarımları, bir romanın/konunun minimal, anlaşılır grafik tasarım ürünleri olarak oluşturulması bakımından göstergebilimsel olarak incelenmiştir. Kitap kapak tasarımında kullanılan tasarım öğelerinin işlevleri, romanın içeriğini yansıtması bakımından sorgulanacaktır.

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"Sex Inequality in The Handmaid’s Tale." In 10th International Visible Conference on Educational Studies and Applied Linguistics. Tishk International University, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23918/vesal2019.a15.

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Krivachkova, Kalina. "Comparative study of Christina Dalcher’s VOX and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale." In 5th International Conference on New Findings On Humanities and Social Sciences. Acavent, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.33422/5th.hsconf.2020.11.100.

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Zharkova, Evgeniya. "The Motif of Feminine Corporeality in M. Atwood's novel qThe Handmaid's Taleq." In 45th International Philological Conference (IPC 2016). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/ipc-16.2017.136.

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