The Handmaid's Tale

Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Janis Goldie, Christina Barmon, Michelle Cubellis, Sarah Dodd, Cecilia Gigliotti, Susan N. Gilmore, Janis Goldie, Ellen Grabiner, Jessica Greenebaum

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This collection analyzes how their disciplines can add unique depth and context to many of the themes that are being mobilized in Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and its screen adaptations. Contributors address how these themes apply to social issues and specific topics such as science and religion to the role of journalism in a democratic society.

The Handmaid's Tale: Teaching Dystopia, Feminism, and Resistance across Disciplines and Borders offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, as well as its film and television adaptations, can be employed across different academic fields in high school, college and university classrooms. Scholars from a variety of disciplines and cultural contexts contribute to wide-ranging analytical strategies, ranging from religion and science to the role of journalism in democracy, while still embracing gender studies in a broader methodological and theoretical framework. The volume examines both the formal and stylistic ways in which Atwood's classic work and its adaptations can be brought to life in the classroom through different lenses and pedagogies.

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