The Lavender Menace Returns: Reading Gender & Sexuality in The Handmaid's Tale.

Autor: Himberg, Julia
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Zdroj: Communication, Culture & Critique; Mar2018, Vol. 11 Issue 1, p195-197, 3p
Abstrakt: The article offers criticism on the television series "The Handmaid's Tale," based on a 1985 novel of the same name written by Margaret Atwood. Depicting a dystopia, the series stars Elisabeth Moss as Offred, the main character describing everyday life in Gilead, a nation with reproductive struggles and thus, tortures fertile women into submission. The way the series explores gender and sexuality is also noted.
Databáze: Complementary Index