The handmaid's tale : teaching dystopia, feminism, and resistance across disciplines and borders / edited by Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Janis L. Goldie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ritzenhoff, Karen A., editor.

Goldie, Janis L. (Janis Leanne), 1977- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Handmaid's tale.

Atwood, Margaret.

Atwood, Margaret, 1939---Adaptations.

Atwood, Margaret, 1939-.

Handmaid's tale (Atwood, Margaret).

Adaptations.

Literature and society--History--21st century.

Literature and society.

Women and literature--History--21st century.

Women and literature.

History.

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Television adaptations.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 301 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books 2019.

Summary:

"This collection analyzes how their disciplines can add unique depth and context to many of the themes that are being mobilized in Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and its screen adaptations. Contributors address how these themes apply to social issues and specific topics such as science and religion to the role of journalism in a democratic society"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Handmaid's Tale as a pedagogical tool

The Handmaid's Tale as a Teaching Tool for Engaging Students in Colonial American History and Puritanism / Kelly Marino

Translation and Adaptation Matters: About the Differences Between a Story Called The Handmaid's Tale or The Slave-girl's Tale? / Aven McMaster

Jezebel's: Sex and Marriage in Early Christian Theology / Kate McGrath

Literary Narration, Complicity, and Political Dystopia in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale / Katherine Sugg

"You don't know what we had to go through:" Feminist Generations in The Handmaid's Tale / Heather Munro Prescott

"Don't Let the Bastards Grind you Down"

Again: Returning to The Handmaid's Tale / Susan Gilmore

Consent, Power, and Sexual Assault in The Handmaid's Tale: Handmaids, Sexual Slavery and Victim Blaming / Michelle A. Cubellis

Advancing Student Understanding of Rape Culture: The Handmaid's Tale as a Tool in the Primary Prevention of Sexual Assault on College Campuses / Sarah Dodd

Using The Handmaid's Tale as a kaleidoscope to understand past and present social concerns

Fertility and Fetal Containers: Science, Religion, and The Handmaid's Tale / Kristine Larsen

"I'm Ravenous for News": Using The Handmaid's Tale to Explore the Role of Journalism / Theodora Ruhs

Women's Health in The Handmaid's Tale and the Marginalization of Women / Rati Kumar

Resist!: Racism and Sexism in The Handmaid's Tale / Charisse Levchak

Erasing Race in The Handmaid's Tale / Paul Moffett

Women, Complicity and The Handmaid's Tale / Jessica Greenebaum and Beth Merenstein

"Discards, All of Us": Representations of Age in The Handmaid's Tale / Christina Barmon

Production, cinematic techniques, and film adapatations

No Light Without Shadow: The Question of Realism in Volker Schlöndorff's The Handmaid's Tale and Hulu's TV Series / Eileen Rositzka

Shifting Perspectives and Re-accentuation: Adapting The Handmaid's Tale as Film in 1990 and as a Hulu TV Series in 2017/2018 / Dennis Tredy

The Handmaid's Tale: The Optics of Dystopia / Ellen Grabiner

Interdisciplinary lessons learned from The Hnadmaid's Tale

Offred's Journey Through Gilead: Subverting Oppositional Discourse Through First Person Performed Narrative / Sheila Siragusa

The Artist and Her Art: An Examination of Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson and June Osborne through a Feminist Lens / Jacqueline Maxwell

'The Magical Land of the North': Anti-Americanism and Canadian Identity within The Handmaid's Tale / Janis L. Goldie

Suffering Motherhood and Woman's Empowerment: Comparing Metropolis (1927) and The Handmaid's Tale (2017) / Clémentine Tholas

'Topia' Extended: "Historical" Judgment of The Handmaid's Tale / Cecilia Gigliotti.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Goldie, Janis, The handmaid's tale

ISBN:

9781498589147

1498589146

OCLC:

1090440214