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The Handmaid's Tale - A Historical Timeline with Some Key Contextual Dates and Themes

• Introduction: What is Democracy in America?
• East Germany
• Margaret Atwood
• 'The Seventies': Feminism makes waves
• Activism and the Women’s Liberation Movement

Notes on Genre and Form

The Handmaid's Tale and Women's Writing

• Jane Eyre
• Mrs Dalloway
• The Yellow Wallpaper

The Handmaid's Tale and Dystopian Fiction

• We
• Brave New World
• Nineteen Eighty-Four

The Handmaid's Tale and Speculative Fiction

Proto-science fiction

The Handmaid's Tale and Protest Literature

Making a protest: Ten political novels to challenge your views

The Handmaid's Tale and Erotic Fiction

Criticism, Story of O

The Handmaid's Tale and Satire

Satire, OED

• Gulliver's Travels
• Candide
• Satire and humour

9 nightmarish things in 'The Handmaid's Tale' inspired by history

Thematic Notes and Activities

Government, Protest and Rebellion; Civil Rights

What is a Theocracy?

Faith and religion

• A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials
• The Puritans

Environment

• The Handmaid’s Tale: making a drama out of a crisis
• Berlin Wall

Critical Bibliography

Online articles

• https://alphahistory.com/coldwar/east-germany/
• https://followmyvote.com/theocracy/
• https://www.texasgateway.org/resource/conservative-resurgence-1980s-and-1990s
• https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/20/handmaids-tale-margaret-atwood
• https://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/22/living/the-seventies-feminism-womens-lib/index.html
• https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall
• https://www.insider.com/handmaids-tale-based-on-real-world-origins-history-events-2019-8
• https://www.bl.uk/sisterhood/articles/activism-and-the-womens-liberation-movement