The Handmaid's Tale

Karen A. Ritzenhoff is professor in the Department of Communication at Central Connecticut State University. Janis L. Goldie is associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication Studies at Huntington/Laurentian University.

Chapter 1: The Handmaid’s Tale as a Teaching Tool for Engaging Students in Colonial American History and Puritanism
Chapter 2: Translation and Adaptation Matters: About the Differences Between a Story Called The Handmaid’s Tale or The Slave-girl’s Tale?
Chapter 3: Jezebel’s: Sex and Marriage in Early Christian Theology
Chapter 4: Literary Narration, Complicity, and Political Dystopia in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Chapter 5: "You don't know what we had to go through:" Feminist Generations in The Handmaid's Tale
Chapter 6: “Don’t Let the Bastards Grind you Down”—Again: Returning to The Handmaid’s Tale
Chapter 7: Consent, Power, and Sexual Assault in The Handmaid’s Tale: Handmaids, Sexual Slavery and Victim Blaming
Chapter 8: Advancing Student Understanding of Rape Culture: The Handmaid’s Tale as a Tool in the Primary Prevention of Sexual Assault on College Campuses
Chapter 9: Fertility and Fetal Containers: Science, Religion, and The Handmaid’s Tale
Chapter 10: “I’m Ravenous for News”: Using The Handmaid’s Tale to Explore the Role of Journalism
Chapter 11: Women’s Health in The Handmaid’s Tale and the Marginalization of Women
Chapter 12: Resist!: Racism and Sexism in The Handmaid’s Tale
Chapter 13: Erasing Race in The Handmaid’s Tale
Chapter 14: Women, Complicity and The Handmaid's Tale
Chapter 15: “Discards, All of Us”: Representations of Age in The Handmaid’s Tale

Chapter 16: No Light Without Shadow: The Question of Realism in Volker Schlöndorff’s The
Handmaid’s Tale and Hulu’s TV Series
Chapter 17: Shifting Perspectives and Re-accentuation: Adapting The Handmaid’s Tale as Film in 1990 and as a Hulu TV Series in 2017/2018
Chapter 18: The Handmaid’s Tale: The Optics of Dystopia
Chapter 19: Offred’s Journey Through Gilead: Subverting Oppositional Discourse Through First Person Performed Narrative
Chapter 20: The Artist and Her Art: An Examination of Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson and June Osborne through a Feminist Lens
Chapter 21: ‘The Magical Land of the North’: Anti-Americanism and Canadian Identity within The Handmaid’s Tale
Chapter 22: Suffering Motherhood and Woman’s Empowerment: Comparing Metropolis (1927) and The Handmaid’s Tale (2017)
Chapter 23: ‘Topia’ Extended: “Historical” Judgment of The Handmaid’s Tale