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The Handmaid's Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was the United States. Gilead is ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state, and is faced with environmental disasters and a plummeting birth rate. In a desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world, the few ...
Jul 15, 2019 · The Handmaid’s Tale — Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel about a patriarchal future where fertile women are a tightly controlled commodity — has become more of a symbol than a piece of ...
“The Handmaid’s Tale” is produced by MGM Television and executive produced by Bruce Miller, Warren Littlefield, Elisabeth Moss, Daniel Wilson, Fran Sears, Eric Tuchman, Yahlin Chang, Rachel Shukert, Sheila Hockin, John Weber, Frank Siracusa, Steve Stark and Kim Todd. The series is internationally distributed by MGM.
An early work of feminist science fiction was Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Shelley’s novel about a man creating a living creature examines ideas about motherhood in Shelley’s society. With its portrait of an oppressive, male-dominated society, The Handmaid’s Tale suggests ways in which oppression and violence shape women’s experience ...
Apr 25, 2017 · The Handmaid's Tale. Season 1. Facing a plunging birthrate, a fundamentalism regime has begun treating women as property. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred is a Handmaid, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as an attempt to repopulate the world. IMDb 8.4 2017 10 episodes.
Apr 19, 2021 · The Handmaid's Tale. Award-winning audio producer John Scott Dryden brings you into a dystopian future, in which the birth rate has plummeted and the United States has become a theocracy called Gilead. Women who are capable of childbirth are pulled out of society and trained as handmaids, then assigned to men for the sole purpose of procreation.
