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Pre-reading

• Margaret Atwood: we are double-plus unfree
• Writers Unite! The Return of the Protest Novel
• Margaret Atwood and Elisabeth Moss on the urgency of The Handmaid’s Tale
• Margaret Atwood on What The Handmaid’s Tale Means in the Age of Trump

During Reading

Chapters 8–12: Waiting Room

• We Live in the Reproductive Dystopia of The Handmaid’s Tale

Chapters 14–17: Household

• Margaret Atwood on Christianity, The Handmaid’s Tale, and What Faithful Activism Looks Like Today

Chapters 25–29: Soul Scrolls

• Margaret Atwood on Christianity, The Handmaid’s Tale, and What Faithful Activism Looks Like Today

Chapters 31–39: Jezebel’s

• Definition of 'refugee'

Chapters 41–45: Salvaging

• Totalitarianism: Encyclopaedia Britannica

Chapter 46: Night

• How to Find Hope in Dystopian Fiction
• No Balm in Gilead for Margaret Atwood

Historical Notes

• Margaret Atwood’s Grimly Relevant Additions to The Handmaid’s Tale audiobook

After Reading

Characters and Relationships

Genre

• Margaret Atwood on why we should all read Brave New World
• Margaret Atwood, the Prophet of Dystopia

Themes and Attitudes

• No Balm in Gilead for Margaret Atwood
• We Live in the Reproductive Dystopia of The Handmaid’s Tale

The Writer’s Use of Language

• George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and the language of dystopia

Form and Structure

• Encyclopedia Britannica: ‘écriture féminine’

Contexts

• Margaret Atwood: Feminism is not about believing women are always right
• Hate crimes, honour killings and FGM: how The Handmaid's Tale captures our age of fear

Critical Reception

• What Critics Said about 'The Handmaid's Tale' Back in the 1980s
• Offred’s Complicity and the Dystopian Tradition in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
• Review: Choice of Evils
• Why is The Handmaid's Tale claimed as feminist, when it's deeply ambivalent about the movement?
• Women disunited : Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale as a critique of feminism
• ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: A White Feminist’s Dystopia
• Offred’s Complicity and the Dystopian Tradition in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
• Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid Tale” and the Dystopian Tradition

Suggested Answers

Pre-reading

• Speculative Fiction

During Reading

Chapters 19–23: Birth Day

• Margaret Atwood: Plastics are poisoning us. We need change, now
• What is Margaret Atwood's perspective on feminism?
• Margaret Atwood: Feminism is not about believing women are always right

After Reading

Themes and Attitudes

• Locating Lost Masculinities in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale