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"Like any theocracy, this one would select a few passages from the Bible to justify its actions, and it would lean heavily towards the Old Testament, not towards the New. Since ruling classes always make sure they get the best and rarest of desirable goods and services, and as it is one of the axioms of the novel that fertility in the industrialised west has come under threat, the rare and desirable would include fertile women – always on the human wish list, one way or another – and reproductive control. Who shall have babies, who shall claim and raise those babies, who shall be blamed if anything goes wrong with those babies? These are questions with which human beings have busied themselves for a long time."
Haunted by The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
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"Revellers dress up as Handmaids on Hallowe’en and also for protest marches – these two uses of its costumes mirroring its doubleness. Is it entertainment or dire political prophecy? Can it be both? I did not anticipate any of this when I was writing the book."
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Notes"The Handmaid’s Tale has often been called a “feminist dystopia”, but that term is not strictly accurate. In a feminist dystopia pure and simple, all of the men would have greater rights than all of the women. It would be two-layered in structure: top layer men, bottom layer women. But Gilead is the usual kind of dictatorship: shaped like a pyramid, with the powerful of both sexes at the apex, the men generally outranking the women at the same level; then descending levels of power and status with men and women in each, all the way down to the bottom, where the unmarried men must serve in the ranks before being awarded an Econowife."m.guardian.co.uk Haunted by the Handmaid’s Tale
By Margaret Atwood
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Notes Ms. Readers’ 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time
Here is an excellent list of Ms. Magazine’s readers top 100 feminist book of all time, which was sent to me by theoceanandthesky (thankyou ♥)
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A Cliché Coming True: Favorite Books of 2011
My blog entry about my favorite books of 2011!
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I don’t know when I became so damn sentimental about children’s books but I’m now shopping for the full Betsy-Tacy series for myself. I really love this version of them.
I’d love a set of first editions but I’m sure I can’t afford them.
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Just realized the box on the table was my signed copy of Maureen Johnson’s new book, Name of the Star! So beyond excited!
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The Name of the Star
Read the first 78 pages of The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson!! Click here
It’s sooo amazing. I’m really excited for the book to come out later this month.
Seriously.. GO READ IT!
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seriously i’m going crazy buying books with the thought of reading for pleasure.
to read:
- last little blue envelope by maureen johnson (this one comes out tomorrow!)
- bossypants by tina fey
- your best birth
- divergent by veronica roth (dystopian YA written by a 22 year old!)
- baby catcher: chronicles of a modern midwife
- knock yourself up
and this is just the beginning. sooo beyond excited. i dont think you know.
what’s on your summer reading list?
