SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Films: | Television: The Handmaid's Tale

»The Handmaid's Tale is an American dystopian television series created by Bruce Miller, based on the 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. The series was ordered by the streaming service Hulu as a straight-to-series order of ten episodes, for which production began in late 2016. The plot features a dystopia following a Second American Civil War wherein a theonomic, totalitarian society subjects fertile women, called "Handmaids", to child-bearing slavery.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 21^st Century

II. Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History

III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape | Representations: Literary Texts: Margaret Atwood

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Peberdy, Donna. »‘Grab them by the Pussy’: Renegotiating the Sexual Politics of Touch in The Handmaid’s Tale.« American Television in the Trump Era. Edited by Karen McNally. Detroit 2020.

II. Speaker Index