The handmaid's tale and philosophy : a womb of one's own /
"In 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,...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Chicago :
Open Court,
[2019]
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| Serie: | Popular culture and philosophy ;
v. 123. |
| Accesso online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1920589 |
Sommario:
- Resisting dystopia
- Part I: but they were godless: A great darkness filled with echoes
- Dystopia from a woman's point of view
- Gestational totalitarianism
- The United States of Gilead?
- Part I: faith is only a word, embroidered: Inside Gilead's misogynist papers
- Serena Joy, miserable, despicable
- Remix in Gilead
- From the handmaid's tale to the handmaids' tale
- Part III: dying of too much choice: A rose by any other brand
- Babies and pleasures
- What about the men?
- Gilead as Palimpsest
- Part IV: how easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all: Gilead vs. the self
- The value of a handmaid
- June the stoic?
- Who is the meanest of them alll?
- Part V: I tell, therefore you are: The red and the black
- Smoke and mirrors in Gilead
- How language shapes reality in Gilead
- Under a watchful eye
- Part VI: Gilead in the rearview mirror: A response to Professor Pieixoto
- References
- Mayday members
- Index.