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The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy, philosophers give their insights into the blockbuster best-selling novel and record-breaking TV series,
The Handmaid's Tale. The story involves a future breakaway state in New England, beset by environmental disaster and a plummeting birth rate, in which the few remaining fertile women are conscripted to have sex and bear children to the most powerful men, all justified and rationalized by religious fundamentalism.
Among the questions raised by this riveting and harrowing story:
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The Handmaid's Tale displays the connection between sex and power. What light does this story shed on sex and power in our own society?
? The divinity of the feminine is associated with the female capacity to give birth. Is this association inherently exploitative?
? In the story, the revolution rapidly rebranded people by changing their names and placing them into functional groups with specific titles. How important
