The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy: A Womb of One's Own (Popular Culture and Philosophy (123))

Synopsis

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, 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. 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. Edited By Rachel Robison-greene. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.