Handmaid is Atwood, but it's basically about America being taken over by scary right-wing Christians in an era where women are becoming increasingly sterile. So all the women who can still reproduce are rounded up and made into handmaids. They're sent to live with rich commanders and such and bear their children, in these really awful sex ceremonies in which the wife is present, like this really twisted threesome. It's hard to read.
And there's a whole lot more. The story basically follows Offred and how the whole country turned into a place that systematically stripped away women's rights, follows the loss of her husband and child, and there's this one really awful scene where the handmaids literally rip apart an accused rapist.
You should read it. It's entirely disturbing and relevant. And it was written in 1986 by a Canadian.
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Date: 2004-11-22 08:08 am (UTC)Handmaid is Atwood, but it's basically about America being taken over by scary right-wing Christians in an era where women are becoming increasingly sterile. So all the women who can still reproduce are rounded up and made into handmaids. They're sent to live with rich commanders and such and bear their children, in these really awful sex ceremonies in which the wife is present, like this really twisted threesome. It's hard to read.
And there's a whole lot more. The story basically follows Offred and how the whole country turned into a place that systematically stripped away women's rights, follows the loss of her husband and child, and there's this one really awful scene where the handmaids literally rip apart an accused rapist.
You should read it. It's entirely disturbing and relevant. And it was written in 1986 by a Canadian.