Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale "In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now.... "  —The Publisher. Home Biography Novels Short Fiction Poetry Site Awards Excerpts from The Handmaid's Tale Extracts - The Borzoi Reader Plot Synopses Summary - Bloomsbury Book Reviews The New York Times Review, 1986 Time Magazine, 1986 Washington Monthly Review, 1986 Reviewer's Bookwatch, 2004 SF Site, 2002 Video Interviews of Margaret Atwood Atwood, Religion, and The Handmaid's Tale, Part 1/3 Atwood, Religion, and The Handmaid's Tale, Part 2/3 Atwood, Religion, and The Handmaid's Tale, Part 3/3 Essays on The Handmaid's Tale Sufi Mysticism in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale - Nancy Workman Subject-Position as Victim-Position in The Handmaid's Tale - Jamie Dopp Feminist Implications of Anti-leisure in Dystopian Fiction - M.J. Daniels and H.E. Bowen The Politics of Language: A Device of Creativity and Power in The Handmaid's Tale - Gabriele Twohig The Aunts as an Analysis of Feminine Power in The Handmaid's Tale - Tara J. Johnson Moving Beyond 'The Blank White Spaces': Atwood's Gilead,          Postmodernism, and Strategic Resistance - M. Caminero-Santangelo Margaret Atwood's Testaments: Resisting the Gilead Within - Janet Karsten Lawson Surviving Women: A Study of Margaret Atwood's Protagonists - Master's Thesis, Kelly S. Reese The Handmaid's Tale: Questioning for Quality Thinking - Wafa Unus The Other Side of Atwood - Laura Braza The treatment of the female protagonists in Bodily Harm and The Handmaid's Tale - Justine Study Guides and Miscellaneous Resources Reader's Companion to Surfacing - Books@Random Study Guide to Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale - Paul Brians Teacher Resource, Lesson Plan: Biblical Influences in The Handmaid's Tale - Anja Breuer Curriculum: Sexual Oppression and Religious Extremism in The Handmaid's Tale - Diana T. Otto Study Questions: The Handmaid's Tale - Bob Barsanti Notes on The Handmaid's Tale - Kate Liu Notes on The Handmaid's Tale - Gisèle Baxter Books treating of The Handmaid's Tale Bartkowski, Frances, ed. Feminist Utopias.          Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. Bouson, J. Brooks. Brutal Choreographies: Oppositional Strategies and          Narrative Design in the Novels of Margaret Atwood.          Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. Cooke, Nathalie. Margaret Atwood: A Critical Companion.          Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004. Howells, Cora Ann, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood.          Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Mohr, Dunja M. Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Feminist Dystopias.          Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. Wilson, Friedman, and Hengen, eds. Approaches to Teaching Atwood's          The Handmaid's Tale and Other Works.          Modern Language Association of America, 1996. Other The Handmaid's Tale - The Movie (1990) - IMDB For God and Gilead: The Handmaid's Tale, the Opera - Atwood for The Guardian, 2003 Photos of the Minnesota Opera production of The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale Fanlisting to Margaret Atwood's Novels to Margaret Atwood Luminarium Copyright ©1996-2007 Anniina Jokinen. All Rights Reserved. Book cover images remain under the copyright of their respective copyright owners. This page created on December 18, 2006 by Anniina Jokinen. Last updated February 7, 2007. About this Website | Luminarium Privacy Statement. Margaret Atwood has since gone on to become not just a major Canadian Writer, and a woman writer (whom some would call a Feminist Writer), but an award-winning author of English literature. Her works include novels, short stories, poetry, etc.