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Women In The Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood

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In today’s societies, many laws require men and women to be treated equally. However, women are still treated as second class citizens, after centuries and centuries of being considered as an inferior gender. Through the first, second waves of the feminist movement and now through the #Me Too movement, women are now being liberated and are speaking out while some are still in the shadows. In The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, a Theonomy has overthrown the U.S government. The novel tells the story of Offred, a Handmaid who is forbidden to use her birth name and must follow the males who she serve’s.Women are not able to vote, hold property, work, read or do anything that might allow them to become independent. The purpose of the society
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