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- Title
The Lavender Menace Returns: Reading Gender & Sexuality in The Handmaid's Tale.
- Authors
Himberg, Julia
- Abstract
The article offers criticism on the television series "The Handmaid's Tale," based on a 1985 novel of the same name written by Margaret Atwood. Depicting a dystopia, the series stars Elisabeth Moss as Offred, the main character describing everyday life in Gilead, a nation with reproductive struggles and thus, tortures fertile women into submission. The way the series explores gender and sexuality is also noted.
- Subjects
HANDMAID'S Tale, The (Book : Atwood); HANDMAID'S Tale, The (TV program); DYSTOPIAS; GENDER on television; HUMAN sexuality on television
- Publication
Communication, Culture & Critique, 2018, Vol 11, Issue 1, p195
- ISSN
1753-9129
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/ccc/tcx012