feminist science fiction · 1985
The Handmaid's Tale
1985 novel by Margaret Atwood
- 1985
- feminist science fiction
- social science fiction novel
- science fiction
- dystopian fiction
- historical fiction
Summary
The Handmaid's Tale is a futuristic dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England in a patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state known as the Republic of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States government. The protagonist, a woman named Offred, occupies the role of a "handmaid": women who are forcibly assigned to bear children for high status men.
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