The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale is a 1985 dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. The novel explores themes of women in subjugation, and the various means by which they gain agency, against a backdrop of the establishment of a totalitarian theocratic state. Sumptuary laws (essentially, dress codes) play a key role in the form of social control in the new society.

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1985 - Dystopian - Novel - Canadian - Author - Margaret Atwood - Subjugation - Agency - Totalitarian - Theocratic - Sumptuary law - Society

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The novel was completed while Atwood was a visiting professor in the English Department at The University of Alabama.

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