| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 278 pages) |
| Series |
Popular culture and philosophy ; volume 123 |
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Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 123.
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| Contents |
Resisting dystopia -- Part I: but they were godless: A great darkness filled with echoes -- Dystopia from a woman's point of view -- Gestational totalitarianism -- The United States of Gilead? -- Part I: faith is only a word, embroidered: Inside Gilead's misogynist papers -- Serena Joy, miserable, despicable -- Remix in Gilead -- From the handmaid's tale to the handmaids' tale -- Part III: dying of too much choice: A rose by any other brand -- Babies and pleasures -- What about the men? -- Gilead as Palimpsest -- Part IV: how easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all: Gilead vs. the self -- The value of a handmaid -- June the stoic? -- Who is the meanest of them alll? -- Part V: I tell, therefore you are: The red and the black -- Smoke and mirrors in Gilead -- How language shapes reality in Gilead -- Under a watchful eye -- Part VI: Gilead in the rearview mirror: A response to Professor Pieixoto -- References -- Mayday members -- Index |
| Summary |
"In The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy, philosophers give their insights into the blockbuster best-selling novel and record-breaking TV series, The Handmaid's Tale. The story involves a future breakaway state in New England, beset by environmental disaster and a plummeting birth rate, in which the few remaining fertile women are conscripted to have sex and bear children to the most powerful men, all justified and rationalized by religious fundamentalism."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from READ title page (OverDrive, viewed December 12, 2018) |
| Subject |
Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Handmaid's tale.
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| SUBJECT |
Handmaid's tale (Television program) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2017111909
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Handmaid's tale (Atwood, Margaret) fast |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- Miscellanea
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
Trivia and miscellanea
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Robison-Greene, Rachel, 1983- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780812699968 |
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0812699963 |
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