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The handmaid's tale

Fundamentalist biblical morality rules the twenty-first century Gilead Republic, where nearly all women are enslaved. Offred, a handmaid used for breeding by the ruling class, risks exile in the radioactive colonies or execution by seeking freedom through the Underground Femaleroad.

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  • "Claire Danes performs The handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood"@en
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  • "Fundamentalist biblical morality rules the twenty-first century Gilead Republic, where nearly all women are enslaved. Offred, a handmaid used for breeding by the ruling class, risks exile in the radioactive colonies or execution by seeking freedom through the Underground Femaleroad."@en
  • "Set in the Republic of Gilead, the former United States, during the late twentieth century. The declining birth rates caused by the effects of nuclear fallout and the AIDS epidemic result in a new social structure where all young women who can bear healthy children, are allocated to powerful regime men. This is the story of one of these young women."@en
  • "Set in the Republic of Gilead, during the late twentieth century, when declining birth rates caused by the effects of nuclear fallout and the AIDS epidemic result in a new social structure. All young women, who can bear healthy children, are allocated to powerful regime of men. This is the story of one of these young women."@en
  • "Set in the Republic of Gilead, during the late twentieth century, when declining birth rates caused by the effects of nuclear fallout and the AIDS epidemic result in a new social structure. All young women, who can bear healthy children, are allocated to powerful regime of men. This is the story of one of these young women."
  • "Set in a society that has reverted to the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. Offred, the handmaid whose job is surrogate mother to the sterile marriage of an elderly leader, longs to escape. Some strong language."@en
  • "A oppressive regime takes over and trys to regulate reproduction."@en
  • "Margaret Atwood presents a chilling dystopic novel set in the Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, after a radical theocratic revolution. In a time of declining birthrates, fertile women are dispersed to high-ranking white men as baby-making handmaids. If a handmaid cannot reproduce, she is exiled to the Colonies, an uber-polluted wasteland. One of these handmaids, Offred, not only remembers her life before the revolution, but is determined to reclaim it."@en
  • "Set in the Republic of Gilead, during the late twentieth century, when declining birth rates caused by the effects of nuclear fallout and the AIDS epidemic result in a new social structure. All young women, who can bear healthy children, are allocated to powerful regime of men. This is the story of one of these young women.--"@en
  • "Set in the Republic of Gilead with declining birth rates, all young women who can bear healthy children are allocated to a powerful regime of men. This is the story of one of these young women."
  • "The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates she will, like all dissenters, be hanged or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs."
  • "Futuristic novel set in a society that has reverted to the repressive intolerance of the original puritans. Offred, the handmaid whose job is to function as surrogate mother to the sterile marriage of an elderly leader, longs to escape. Runner-up to the."@en
  • "'Every night when I go to bed I think, in the morning, I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn't happened this morning either'. Set in the not-too-distant future, this is the story of a young woman recruited for reproductive purposes at a time of plummeting birth rates. The gripping narrative switches between her memories of the old world where she was a working mother and the terriying realities of her life as a state-controlled breeding machine - a Handmaid."@en
  • "Presents a futuristic story of Offred, a handmaiden, whose sole function is reproduction."@en
  • "The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. . . . ."@en
  • "Set in a society that has reverted to the repressive intolerance of the Puritans. Offred, the handmaid whose job is surrogate mother to an elderly leader, longs to escape. Some strong language."
  • "Set in a society that has reverted to the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. Offred, the handmaid whose job is surrogate mother to the sterile marriage of an elderly leader, longs to escape."@en
  • "Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new social order whose function is to breed."
  • "Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new social order whose function is to breed."@en
  • "Set in the Republic of Gilead, the former United States, during the late twentieth century. The declining birth rates caused by the effects of nuclear fallout and the AIDS epidemic result in a new social structure where all young women who can bear healthy children, are allocated to powerfull regime men. This is the story of one of these young women."@en

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