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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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Ismael, Henir, and Hasan Saleh. "The discursive strategies of power and female resistance in margret atwood's the handmaid's tale: a foucauldian reading." Humanities Journal of University of Zakho 11, no. 3 (September 23, 2023): 555–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.26436/hjuoz.2023.11.3.1096.

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This paper examines the use of certain discursive strategies and the consequent female resistance in Margret Atwood novel The Handmaid's Tale (1985. The novel portrays different forms of power exercised by totalitarian governments over women. In complex ways, Margret Atwood uses the feminist dystopian genre to resist gender-based oppression. To do so, Atwood must first build a miserable world that subjugates their female characters before she can create ways for these characters to resist. The events of The Handmaid's Tale, like most dystopian stories, take place in the future, but they express the anger and anxieties of the present, and more women speak out against sexual assault and harassment. This study applies Michel Foucault's concepts of power relations through discursive strategies in Margret Atwood's “The Handmaid’s Tale”. More explicitly, the research tries to shed light on the discursive practices used to control women's minds and bodies in a way that guarantees complete obedience to a specific ideology. The study also shows how women use strategies of language and education to resist and free themselves from the oppression imposed on them. These types of fiction have always been sites of power conflict, reflecting the atrocities committed against the public by those in power. It is concluded that Foucault's ideas about discourse and power explain why women are oppressed by totalitarian regimes and how they use the same power to build a discourse of resistance to free themselves from oppression and disciplinary power.

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TURKI, Harith, and Dulfqar Abdulrazzaq. "A MARXIST READING OF MARGARET ATWOOD'S THE HANDMAID'S TALE." Al-Adab Journal, no. 146 (September 15, 2023): 15–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.31973/aj.v1i146.3726.

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Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is a salient dystopian fiction considered as an allusion to the reader's reality, where it highlights a futuristic totalitarian regime in which people are dehumanized and live in horror and indignity. However, the purpose of this article is to explore the class conflict between the various women's social classes under the Gileadean regime and its resulting persecution. Moreover, this study adopts Marxist Feminism as a theoretical framework to read the text and explore the implications of social class conflicts and clashes among women in the household. Consequently, the current paper reached the following findings: First, the Gileadean regime deliberately creates differences among the women in the household in order to exploit them and creates a state of conflict among themselves. Second, the regime fabricated a false consciousness among each class, especially the Handmaids, to deceive them and make them think they are superior in society in order to keep them under control so as to be used as sacred vessels or fertile reproduction machines for the infertile women of high class. Finally, Gilead was able to make women turn on each other as the upper class of women played the role of patriarchy in persecuting the inferior classes of women.

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Arbaoui, Fatima Zahra El. "Feminist dystopian consciousness in margaret atwood’s the handmaid's tale." International journal of linguistics, literature and culture 4, no. 4 (June 16, 2018): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.21744/ijllc.v4n4.231.

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Margaret Atwood's famous dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s tale, was written in 1985 during the emergence of the opposition to the feminist movement. The struggle that occurred between both parties of the women's rights issue excited Atwood, as an active advocate of this movement, to write this novel to alert women of what the female gender may mislay if the feminist movement were defeated. She has attempted to warn her readers through the life of Offred; a handmaid who expresses her dystopian feminist consciousness by taking the role of a storyteller and being the narrator and controller of her own story. The core aim of this article would be to focus on how Offred combines her feminist consciousness, memories, and language as liberty instruments to detect her way towards freedom? How can this consciousness be the seed which grows into the sapling of self-expression she cultivates and nourishes through the novel?

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Stein, Karen. "Margaret Atwood'sThe Handmaid's Tale: Scheherazade in Dystopia." University of Toronto Quarterly 61, no. 2 (January 1992): 269–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/utq.61.2.269.

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Staels, Hilde. "Margaret Atwood'sThe Handmaid's Tale: Resistance through narrating." English Studies 76, no. 5 (September 1995): 455–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138389508598988.

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Anderson, Martin. "London, English national Opera: ‘The Handmaid's Tale’." Tempo 57, no. 225 (July 2003): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040298203220246.

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Poul Ruders's opera The Handmaid's Tale is hardly an unknown quantity: its world-première production in Copenhagen in 2000 was recorded by da capo (8.224165–66) in a three-CD set that received justly loud encomia. But the UK stage première, transferring the Danish production for a run at the English National Opera that began on 3 April, revealed – in a way that the recording obviously could not – what a superior piece of theatre it is: music, libretto, direction, stage design, costumes and lighting all coalesce to thrilling effect. A depressing number of operatic productions sacrifice musical integrity to directorial whim, so it's deeply heartening to report that, for once, everything pulled dedicatedly in the same direction, with outstanding results: it has been years since I've seen something this good.

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Saad Al-Afifi, Azeemah. "Acculturation in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." مجلة وادی النیل للدراسات والبحوث الإنسانیة والاجتماعیة والتربویه 36, no. 36 (October 1, 2022): 161–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/jwadi.2022.268200.

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Machała, Katarzyna. "The Handmaid's Tale vs. The Handmaid's Tale. The graphic novel as a modern reading of the traditional novel." Brno studies in English, no. 1 (2021): 181–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/bse2021-1-10.

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Alwan, Rafea Mohsin. "The Feminist Dystopian Themes in Margret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale: A Reflection of the Social and Political Issues." Journal of Critical Studies in Language and Literature 4, no. 5 (August 23, 2023): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.46809/jcsll.v4i5.220.

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This paper explores the feminist themes present in Margaret Atwood's seminal novel, "The Handmaid's Tale," and analyzes their resonance with contemporary political and social issues. The aims of this study are to understand how Atwood's depiction of a dystopian society highlights the suppression of women's rights, autonomy, and agency and to elucidate the relevance of these themes to the current socio-political landscape. This qualitative study aims to explore the feminist themes in Margaret Atwood's acclaimed novel, "The Handmaid's Tale," and examine their relevance to current political and social issues. To achieve this, a multi-step approach will be adopted. The method employed involves a comprehensive analysis of the novel, encompassing close reading and critical examination of key passages. The results of this study reveal that "The Handmaid's Tale" intricately explores themes of gender inequality, reproductive rights, and the patriarchal control exerted over women's bodies. Atwood's dystopian society of Gilead serves as a stark warning of the potential consequences of eroding women's rights and dismantling feminist progress. The analysis also illustrates the novel's relevance to contemporary issues, such as the ongoing struggle for reproductive rights, gender-based violence, and women's representation in politics and leadership roles. In the discussion section, the findings are further examined in light of present-day political and social challenges faced by women around the world. Utilizing the critical feminist dystopia concept, the paper explores the parallels between Gilead's oppressive regime and the actual threats to gender equality and women's rights in various societies. Moreover, the analysis highlights how "The Handmaid's Tale" serves as a poignant critique of patriarchal structures and a call to action for addressing systemic gender disparities. The conclusion of this study emphasizes the enduring significance of "The Handmaid's Tale" as a powerful feminist work, reflecting the resilience of patriarchal forces and the need for continued activism to safeguard women's rights. Atwood's narrative serves as both a cautionary tale and a source of inspiration, urging readers to remain vigilant in defending women's agency, autonomy, and equality. Ultimately, this research reaffirms the timelessness of feminist literature and its vital role in fostering awareness and mobilizing societal change.

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Carrola, Madeline Yu. "Activists in Red Capes: Women's Use of The Handmaid's Tale to Fight for Reproductive Justice." Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography 11, no. 1 (March 19, 2021): 89–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.15273/jue.v11i1.10869.

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This paper examines women’s use of the notable red and white handmaid costume from Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale at political demonstrations following the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Drawing on ten in-depth ethnographic interviews with women who participated in handmaid chapters, my study finds that interviewees began to wear the handmaid costume at political protests because they increasingly saw parallels between the United States and Gilead—the totalitarian society in Atwood’s novel—as a result of the 2016 election. Participants viewed the costume as a feminist symbol that enabled them to increase awareness about women’s issues, particularly related to reproductive justice. Additionally, interviewees saw the anonymity of the costume as a way to represent all women, especially those who were unable to participate in such protests. This study extends existing scholarship on social movements and women’s activism in the United States by exploring women’s reasons for involvement in this new form of protest and their use of dystopian popular culture as the basis of their performance activism.

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이승례. "Ecological Imagination in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Literature and Environment 9, no. 1 (June 2010): 59–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.36063/asle.2010.9.1.003.

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Heyne, Eric. "The Handmaid's Tale meets Lord of the Flies." Antipodes 32, no. 1-2 (2018): 318–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/apo.2018.0040.

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Walker, NancyMO. "Ironic autobiography: FromThe Waterfall to The Handmaid's Tale." Women's Studies 15, no. 1-3 (October 1988): 203–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00497878.1988.9978728.

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Devi, Dr Anita. "Margaret Atwood as a Feminist." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 11, no. 10 (October 31, 2023): 1912–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2023.56336.

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Abstract: Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario. When she was seven years old, her family moved to Toronto. Her father, an entomologist and professor of zoology, studied tree-dwelling insects. Atwood's passion for Canada's wilderness is present in most of her writings. Atwood is famous for the outspoken feminism in her books. From her first novel, The Edible Woman, to the dark masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale (1985), which cemented her international reputation, Atwood demonstrated deeply concerned with the constraints society places on women and the facades they adopt in response. . The Handmaid's Tale, which Atwood refuses to call "science fiction", depicts a society in which women are stripped of all rights except those to marry, run a household, and reproduce. After The Handmaid's Tale made Atwood an international celebrity, she wrote a series of novels dealing with relationships between women, including Cat's Eye (1988) and The Robber Bride (1993). In 1992, she published Good Bones, short, witty articles about women's body parts and the limitations that have been placed on them throughout history. Atwood explores the historical role of women in other works including her famous poetry collections, the Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970) and her novel Alias Grace (1996). Both recreate the lives of famous feminism women in Canadian history.

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SAĞIROĞLU, Rana. "The Body as the Object of the Gaze in The Handmaid’s Tale and Never Let Me Go." RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 30 (October 21, 2022): 1228–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1193097.

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Gaze always denotes a reciprocal relationship for humans because it involves the power relations between the gazer and the one who is subjected to the gaze. The Handmaid's Tale, written by Margaret Atwood in 1985, is the first focal point of this study as the novel includes dystopic female bodies that are disciplined through a constant gaze and employed in the service of the nation for maintaining the eternity of patrilinearity. Due to the low fertility rates of elites, the Republic of Gilead—the novel's representation of a theocratic state-assigns fertile female bodies as incubators, and those female bodies are constantly under surveillance. The second focus point of this study is Kazuo Ishiguro's dystopian science fiction novel Never Let Me Go written in 2005, which shares many similarities with The Handmaid's Tale. Never Let Me Go is set in a dystopic world where scientists are allowed to conduct cloning experiments on children in order to harvest their organs. Because the experts must be certain of the 'harvesting' process, the children's bodies are constantly monitored. The goal of this study is to explore how human bodies become the object of the gaze and under what circumstances they are transformed into reproduction machines by being filtered and controlled by the gazing power in the novels The Handmaid's Tale and Never Let Me Go.

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Muhlisin, Muhlisin, Syamsurrijal, and Zainuddin Abdussamad. "Gender-Based Oppression in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies 13, no. 1 (April 30, 2024): 29–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/rainbow.v13i1.1959.

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The perception of women as weak individuals results in their oppression, violence, and injustice, which are the fundamental reasons for their fight for equality, justice, and the right to be treated equally to men. The issue of women being objectified and abused by men is highlighted in the novel The Handmaid's Tale. This study aims to identify gender-based oppression against women and its impact on their social and mental well-being in the novel The Handmaid's Tale, using a qualitative descriptive method and a close reading approach to analyze literary motifs. The primary data source is the novel itself. The study utilized secondary sources such as journal articles, books, and relevant internet sources to gather data. The findings suggest that women experience various forms of oppression, including sexual harassment, gender role enforcement, objectification, and tight control by men. The impacts of this oppression result in trauma, psychological damage, internalization to survive, and loss of identity. In conclusion, gender-based oppression causes severe psychological and social agony for women.

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Hershman, Olivia. "Oppression, Storytelling, and Resistance in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale." Digital Literature Review 5 (January 13, 2018): 55–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/dlr.5.0.55-66.

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Using the scholarship of James Berger, David Hogsettte, and other academics, this paper explores various contemporary issues seen throughout Bruce Miller’s TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. Investigating the Hulu series through the lens of post- apocalyptic and feminist theory, this paper examines the way that the series portrays female oppression, focuses on the power of storytelling in resistance struggles, and acts as a call for action to modern society to end the oppression of women. Examining the relevance of The Handmaid’s Tale in the time of the #TimesUP and #MeToo Movements, the essay provides a new context in which to view women’s oppression in modern society.

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Hendershot, Heather. "The Handmaid's Tale as Ustopian Allegory: “Stars and Stripes Forever, Baby”." Film Quarterly 72, no. 1 (2018): 13–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2018.72.1.13.

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Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale (2017–) resonates strongly as an allegorical, science-fictional response to the Trump administration. The show refuses to accept the “new normal” as normal and acknowledges its audience's simultaneous feelings of resistance and exhaustion. The program ultimately argues that, while hope alone is not enough to sustain anyone through the Trump years, it is the right place to start. Above all, the program points to the power of collective resistance. As Americans face down a fascist president, as they contend with babies torn from their mother's bosoms at the border, as they confront a powerful resurgence in White Nationalist activism, the country has perhaps never felt more divided, or threatened. And yet the only way to defeat Trumpism is by standing together and collectively pushing back. The Handmaid's Tale may not show viewers exactly how to do that, but it does show its audience exactly what it would feel like.

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Atwood, Margaret. "The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake in Context." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119, no. 3 (May 2004): 513–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081204x20578.

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I'm not a science fiction expert. Nor am i an academic, although i used to be one, sort of. Although I'm a writer, I'm not primarily a writer of science fiction. In this genre I'm a dilettante and a dabbler, an amateur—which last word, rightly translated, means “lover.” I got into hot water recently on a radio talk show in Britain: the radio person said she'd just been to a sci-fi conference there, and some people were really, really mad at me. Why? said I, mystified. For being mean to science fiction, said she. In what way had I been mean? I asked. For saying you didn't write it, she replied. And I having had the nerve to win the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction.

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Carneiro, Raphael Marco Oliveira, and Ariel Novodvorski. "Traduzindo e Retraduzindo Mundos Textuais em The Handmaid's Tale." Tradterm 39 (April 14, 2021): 80–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9511.v39p80-105.

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Em vista da escassez de estudos interlinguísticos sobre a construção de mundos textuais, este artigo tem como objetivo analisar as representações mentais projetadas por elementos lexicogramaticais em um excerto do romance The Handmaid’s Tale e nos fragmentos correspondes de duas traduções brasileiras. Com base em uma abordagem teórico-metodológica que integra Estilística, Estudos da Tradução e Teoria de Mundos Textuais, conclui-se que a tradução pode exercer efeitos na construção de mundos textuais por meio de escolhas tradutórias. Escolhas em relação ao aspecto verbal, processos verbais, aos objetos do mundo textual, à modalidade epistêmica podem impactar o modo como os textos são cognitivamente processados pelo leitor.

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Devi, C. Nandhini, and Sumathy K. Swamy. "Dystopic vision of margaret atwood in the Handmaid's Tale." ASIAN JOURNAL OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL RESEARCH 10, no. 4 (2021): 568–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/2278-4853.2021.00357.8.

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Neuman, Shirley. "‘Just a Backlash’: Margaret Atwood, Feminism, andThe Handmaid's Tale." University of Toronto Quarterly 75, no. 3 (July 2006): 857–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/utq.75.3.857.

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Wagner-lawlor, Jennifer A. "From Irony to Affiliation in Margaret Atwood'sThe Handmaid's Tale." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 45, no. 1 (January 2003): 83–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00111610309595328.

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Hammer, Carl I. "The handmaid's tale: morganatic relationships in early-mediaeval Bavaria." Continuity and Change 10, no. 3 (December 1995): 345–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0268416000002848.

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Malgré la division de principe entre individus légalement libres et non-libres que connaissait la société du haut Moyen Age, il n'en existait pas moins des relations mixtes et des unions entre des membres de ces deux groupes.Depuis le huitième siècle au moins, on pouvait voir dans certaines de ces unions des mariages valides. L'article cite comme preuve des prescriptions juridiques du haut Moyen Age et s'appuie sur l'étude de 39 contrats bavarois pour décrire comment ces relations se sont constituées ainsi que les réactions aux problémes qu'elles ont suscìtés. Quelle qu'ait été la nature exacte de ces relations, les enfants qui en étaient issus naissaient non-libres et le droit à propriété ou même la liberté du partenaire non-serf pouvaient être remis en cause. Dès la fin du 8e siècle, les Bavarois de statut libre, hommes ou femmes, tentèrent de régler ces difficultés et d'améliorer la condition de leur partenaire et de leur descendance non-libres; toute une série d'arrangements furent trouvés qui intéressèrent en particulier les hommes. Au lOe siècle, la formule la plus courante fut de placer la partie servile du couple sous la dépendance et la protection de l'Eglise, contre une redevance annuelle fixe, le census, qui la libérait de toute autre obligation.

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Bissett, Julie. "What does ‘The Handmaid's Tale’ tell us about resilience?" Dental Nursing 15, no. 10 (October 2, 2019): 478–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/denn.2019.15.10.478.

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Sturgess, Charlotte. "The Victim Position in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines 32, no. 1 (1999): 23–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/ranam.1999.1602.

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The Handmaid’s Tale, dont le personnage principal, Offred, se trouve prisonnière d'une famille d’intégristes vivant sous un régime totalitaire, est un récit qui s’articule manifestement autour du concept de la victime. Cependant, nous tenterons d'examiner ici, non pas le rôle de la victime, mais la façon dont ce rôle se mue en fonction narrative, une fonction que le récit remet souvent en question. Atwood cherche de la sorte à déconstruire la notion même de “catégorie”, et à interroger les oppositions qui la sous-tendent. A travers la voix narrative et la mobilité des codes de genre du récit et de la différence sexuelle, Atwood nous livre une fiction sur les “fictions” d'identité et parvient à miner les bases mêmes sur lesquelles de telles “fictions” se construisent.

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V, Victor Vinoth, and Vijayakumar M. "The Dystopian Scourge of Women in Gilead Society as Portrayed in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 12, no. 12 (December 1, 2022): 2704–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1212.29.

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The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's most renowned dystopian novel, is one of those works whose memorandum appears to transcend period. It has been analyzed to demonstrate the presence of various layers of feministic and dystopian cultural concepts in the novel. A qualitative investigation of secondary resources reveals that the situation of women in the novel is portrayed as a reproach to the patriarchal construction of the contemporary world. The women characters in the novel position as testimonies of the subjugation that unescapably concentrates them, helpless against a societal and political organisation that interprets the position of women as a reproductive machine. According to Atwood’s novel, by representing the repercussions of the revolution in the United States through the fake theocracy and totalitarian law insists, women must serve the commanders of Gilead society for sexual and biological reasons. Infertile women and working slaves should both serve as servants to the elite couple; the Handmaids addresses both historical and contemporary cultural issues, particularly those affecting women. This study further points out the oppressive, matriarchal position and sexual cruelty, diminishing the autonomy of women.

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Al Kassasbeh, Rabab Taha. "Bearing Witness: Gender, Fundamentalism, and the Construction of History in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale and Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran." Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences 50, no. 2 (March 30, 2023): 236–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.35516/hum.v50i2.4934.

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Objectives: This paper examines the feminist testimonial depiction of patriarchy and fundamentalism in The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood and Reading Lolita in Tehran (2004) by the Iranian writer Azar Nafisi. Methods:. This paper incorporates diverse ideas about dystopian literature, testimony, and feminist criticism by situating the individual in communion with a collective experience marked by marginalization, oppression, or resistance. Results: Each book possesses its own narrative conventions of space, time, and character. While The Handmaid's Tale is a feminist dystopia which imagines a future United States governed by a totalitarian theocracy, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a realistic account of a university professor about her life during the fundamentalist revolution in The Republic of Iran. Conclusions: What these apparently two disparate texts have in common is that they attack patriarchy in all its forms, giving testimonial voice to the otherwise voiceless, with hope of promoting political change in contemporary societies.

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Basirizadeh, Fatemeh Sadat, Narges Raoufzadeh, Shahrzad Mohammadhossein, Muhammad Natsir, and Fauziah Khairani Lubis. "Postmodernism Aspects in Lens of Baudrillard Theory in the novels DeLillo’s white noise and Atwood `s Handmaid’s tale." Britain International of Linguistics Arts and Education (BIoLAE) Journal 2, no. 3 (October 28, 2020): 713–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/biolae.v2i3.326.

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This paper focuses on Postmodernism Aspects in Lens of Baudrillard Theory in the novels DeLillo’s white noise and Atwood `s Handmaid’s tale. To consider the United States as our case study, we know that the affluence and waste are quite related to each other. In a way that we might count it as a throwaway society or garbage can sociology like how Baudrillard has put in words. We are cognizant of the fact that all moralists have criticized the lavishing of wealth. An individual who does not comply with the moral law regarding the internal use-value of commodities. The mystification of the commonplace in White Noise can be interpreted as a revolt towards Modernism, which equated rationalization with an increased and general knowledge of the condition under which one lives, i.e., the belief that there are no mysterious incalculable forces that come into play. Modernism located the romantic idea of mystery, of the unknown, geographically, in faraway places like Africa or America. The Handmaid's Tale suggests a particularly postmodern feminist space for resistance a space located within the discourses of the symbolic order including technologically produced and disseminated discourses) rather than in opposition to them.

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Myhal, Bob. "Boundaries, centers, and circles: The postmodern geometry ofthe handmaid's tale." Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 6, no. 3-4 (December 1995): 213–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10436929508580159.

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Montelaro, Janet J. "Maternity and the ideology of sexual difference inthe Handmaid's tale." Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 6, no. 3-4 (December 1995): 233–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10436929508580160.

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Neuman, S. C. (Shirley C. ). "'Just a Backlash': Margaret Atwood, Feminism, and The Handmaid's Tale." University of Toronto Quarterly 75, no. 3 (2006): 857–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/utq.2006.0260.

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Hossein Joodaki, Abdol, Shahram Afrougheh, and Yaser Jafari. "Belief machines of ideology in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale: a Žižekian approach." Journal of Language and Literature 4, no. 2 (December 3, 2013): 10–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.7813/jll.2013/4-2/2.

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Angcos Malit, Sunshine C. "The Prostitute in Margaret Atwood’s the Handmaid’s Tale and the Testaments." Journal of Women Empowerment and Studies, no. 33 (May 1, 2023): 25–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.55529/jwes.33.25.34.

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The purpose of this study, titled The Prostitute in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, is to identify and analyze who among the characters in both novels possesses the characteristics of a Prostitute and Hetaeras, as classified by Simone de Beauvoir in her theory on the Other. The Prostitute, according to the concept, is the absolute Other, the object. However, she is also the exploiter. She is a prostitute for money and the men's recognition of her Otherness. According to the analysis, all of the Handmaids in the novels fit the classification, with their roles as two-legged wombs engaged in ceremonial monthly intercourse with high-ranking men. Moira, Paula, and Shunammite all exhibit characteristics of a prostitute, with Moira being the most obvious because she is a Jezebel, both a prisoner and a sex slave of Gilead's supposedly pure men and a prostitute for foreign tourists The study also looked at the significance and implications of the role of the prostitute in today's patriarchal society. The Prostitute's role teaches us that when male oppression occurs within societies, it is frequently justified by reference to culture, religion, politics, economy, and the established standards of social norms. Recognizing women as the subjects of their own lives and accepting women's rights as fundamental human rights necessitates reconsidering the institutions of family, religion, culture, tradition, and politics.

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Yang, Karen Ya-Chu. "Fit to Breed: Exercise and Sport in Women's Speculative Fiction." Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal 54, no. 4 (December 2021): 115–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mos.2021.a903591.

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Abstract: This essay examines Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Ursula Le Guin's "The Matter of Seggri" as critiques of the segregative gendering of exercise and sport—especially, with regard to their portrayals of the dystopian ramifications of stringent communities where procreative competence is the sole criterion for determining bodily fitness.

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Omar, Abdulfattah, and Maha Alanazi. "From Gilead to Syria: A Comparative Study of Patriarchal Oppression and Resistance in Margaret Atwood's “The Handmaid's Tale” and Nagham Haider’s “Winter Festivals”." World Journal of English Language 13, no. 7 (August 16, 2023): 376. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v13n7p376.

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This paper examines the influence of Margaret Atwood's concept of feminist dystopia on Nagham Haider's Winter Festivals. The main objective of the research is to explore how Haider's literary works, specifically her Winter Festivals, reflect Atwood's feminist dystopian vision. The study adopts Atwood’s approach of feminist dystopia as represented in The Handmaid's Tale to explore themes of gender oppression, objection of the female body, government control, and patriarchal power structures. In her novel, Haider draws heavily from Atwood's feminist dystopian vision, particularly in her exploration of the intersectional oppression faced by the women during the Syrian Civil War. Haider's novel portrays a society in which women are oppressed and denied agency and autonomy, which is a central concept in Margaret Atwood's feminist dystopia. It can be concluded that Nagham Hayder's Winter Festivals echoes Margaret Atwood's feminist dystopian theory in several ways. Both authors present patriarchal societies where women are oppressed and controlled, with women's bodies commodified and controlled by men. Both novels showcase governments exerting complete control over citizens through surveillance and propaganda. Additionally, they emphasize the significance of women's resistance and solidarity in the face of oppression. Winter Festivals' portrayal of a revolution against the Syrian regime and The Handmaid's Tale's depiction of Handmaid resistance show Hayder's apparent influence from Atwood's feminist dystopian ideas in her writing. Finally, this research contributes to the growing body of scholarship on feminist dystopian literature, shedding light on the global reach and impact of Atwood's vision, as well as the diverse ways in which feminist writers around the world adapt and re-imagine this powerful genre to reflect their unique experiences and perspectives.

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Al-Furaiji, Weam L., Elsadig Hussein Fadlalla Ali, Zahir Adam Ahmed, Haytham Othman Hassan, Sarrah Osman Eltom, and Haider Falah Zaeid. "Atrocity in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: A Critical Discourse Approach." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 14, no. 4 (April 29, 2024): 1172–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1404.25.

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This paper examines the discursive tactics employed in The Handmaid's Tale to (re)produce social reality. Using critical discourse analysis, the study reveals the ideological polarization between a favorable self-presentation and a negative portrayal of the other. Through the analysis of excerpts and the application of Van Dijk's framework, the pervasive use of discursive techniques is uncovered, emphasizing the ideological division between a positive self-portrayal and a negative depiction of the other. Pronouns and adjectives play a crucial role in conveying optimistic self-representations and pessimistic other representations, highlighting the characters' struggle against the inherent sexism and patriarchy within legal systems. The findings demonstrate the significance of polarization, lexicalization, positive and negative representation tactics, and the proximity of contrasting stages, illustrating the tension between the individual and society. Considering these results, the paper recommends fostering awareness and critical analysis of discursive tactics, promoting diverse narratives to cultivate empathy and understanding, encouraging dialogue and critical engagement, and actively addressing and challenging gender inequality. These recommendations aim to deepen our understanding of how discursive tactics shape social reality and promote a more equitable and inclusive society. By recognizing and interrogating these discursive strategies, individuals can navigate and challenge the manipulation of language and narrative. The study's insights contribute to a broader understanding of the underlying gender inequality and societal tensions portrayed in The Handmaid's Tale, shedding light on the power dynamics and systemic oppression present in society.

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Gámez Fuentes, María José, and Rebeca Maseda García. "Nostalgia and the Dialectics of Contemporary Feminisms in The Handmaid's Tale." Science Fiction Studies 48, no. 1 (2021): 77–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2021.0009.

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Al-shammari, Huda Aziz Muhi, and Nidaa Hussain Fahmi Al-Khazraji. "Ideological Representation of Women's Oppression in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Al-Adab Journal 3, no. 138 (September 15, 2021): 15–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.31973/aj.v3i138.1771.

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The abuse of women is an issue that persists throughout the ages till the present time because people are still living in a world of a dominated idea which is known as man is the self and woman is the other. So the objective of this research paper is to argue this global issue using Van Dijk's Ideological Square (1998) as a framework so as to examine the ideologies that underline the use of language in The Handmaid’s Tale. It is hypothesized that the ideology of oppression is exposed in the novel throughout using the ideological strategies of positive- self presentation and negative-other presentation. Ultimately, it concludes that the novelist employs both, male and female, characters to consistently ridicule and offer negative coverage about women and to increasingly align and offer favorable comments about men to present the world of patriarchy from a different perspective.

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Bergmann, Harriet F. ""Teaching Them to Read": A Fishing Expedition in the Handmaid's Tale." College English 51, no. 8 (December 1989): 847. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/378090.

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