The Handmaid's Tale is a feminist dystopian novel, a work of science fiction or speculative fiction, written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood and first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1985. Set in the near future, in a totalitarian theocracy which has overthrown the United States government, The Handmaid's Tale explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain agency.
The Handmaid's Tale won the 1985 Govern...
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- 1985
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- Feminist science fiction ,
- Dystopia ,
- Science fiction ,
- Utopian and dystopian fiction ,
- Speculative fiction ,
- Novel
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- El Cuento de La Criada
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