Set in a future where disease and radiation have reduced fertility to a minimum, and a fascist military theocracy has taken over America (or at least part of it). Brutal in its critique of evangelist Christianity and their view on women, Handmaid’s Tale is a harrowing read at the best of times. In it, women have essentially been reduced to chattels, and the few fertile ones assigned to high-ranking military men in order to give them children.
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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by redsfaithful.
That being said. I hated all of these works and do not regret reading a one of them. Why do the worst stories get the best writing?
It's more about the lengths to which men will go to maintain the subjection of women.