Males should read this for an understanding of the power they hold and they power that is perceived to be held by our gender. It is also an interesting speculation about how dystopia can result from the wielding of absolute power.
The chilling thing about The Handmaid's Tale is not the oppressive misogynistic regime of the Republic of Gilead, but how effective it is as a police state and how plausible its operation if not its genesis is. All the small ways in which Gilead dehumanizes and isolates, turns women (men too, but es...
Even more frightening now than it was when I first read it back in the late 80s. Claire Daines narrates the audiobook and is fantastic.
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