Tag: Handmaid’s Tale
“They said women’s minds were too weak for reading.” Forbidden literacy in Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments
Atwood’s sequel, set fifteen years after Offred’s step into the darkness, or else the light, at the end of the original novel, brings us new mediations on the power of reading, the strength of the mind, and women and literacy.
The Handmaid’s Tale and the Freedom to Choose
It is ironically unsurprising that a book about freedom and choice would inspire some to want to limit readers’ freedom to choose to read it.