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.
References in social science
- Stephen J. Ducat. 2004. The Wimp Factor. Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 0807043443. p. 110
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