Familiar Nightmares: The Harrowing World of 'The Handmaid's Tale'

A portrait of a dystopian world not entirely removed from our own, this disturbing, compelling television series has brought Margaret Atwood's classic feminist novel to new audiences. As Suzie Gibson argues, the series serves as an allegory for the gender oppression not only inherent in repressive theocracies, but also lurking under the surface in the liberal West.

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