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    Month: November 2023


    Where fiction meets reality – the dignity of women: The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood, by Rachael Wyborn

    Set in a dystopian near-future, where environmental disaster causes escalating infertility in society, the few remaining fertile women are forcibly assigned to produce children for the ruling class of “Commanders”. With themes such as women’s powerlessness in a totalitarian patriarchy, loss of female agency and individuality, the suppression of women’s reproductive rights and their instrumentalisation […]


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