TY  - BOOK
AU  - Atwood,Margaret
TI  - The handmaid's tale
T2  - Thorndike Press large print core
SN  - 9781432838478
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Waterville, Maine
PB  - Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Misogyny
KW  - Women
KW  - Large type books
KW  - Fantasy fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Dystopian fiction
N2  - This look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction; In this Orwellian dramatization, religion becomes a tool of repression and social control to force women into the roles of stay-at-home wives, domestic staff, prostitutes, or surrogate mothers. They have no rights to their bodies or property and are completely dependent upon men. Those women who have had at least one child find themselves forced into the role of breeding machine, producing children for childless couples. References to 20th-century issues abound, including Agent Orange, abortion, women's rights, and escape attempts to Canada
ER  -