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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).<br>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."<br>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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