27/05/2025
NEW ARTICLE: “The Incomplete Revolution of The Handmaid’s Tale”
Margaret Atwood’s, “The Handmaid’s Tale” is often lauded as a feminist masterpiece—a chilling dystopia that exposes the consequences of misogyny unchecked.
It’s a tale that seems more feminist-centric than most, and yet the lens in which the story is told is through the white woman’s lens demanding we impose a more critical view of the story being heralded. For those that live at the intersections of race, gender, class, and identity, “The Handmaid’s Tale” is also a cautionary tale about whose oppression gets visibility and whose resistance gets erased. While the novel offers a searing indictment of patriarchal control over women’s bodies, its narrative centers a very particular kind of woman: white, heteros*xual, educated, and previously privileged. When read and watched through the feminist theories of bell hooks, Angela Y. Davis, and Gloria Anzaldúa, the world of Gilead becomes not only a vision of oppression but also a mirror reflecting the blind spots of white liberal feminism.
These theorists challenge us to interrogate the very foundations of what we call “feminist” storytelling. They push us to ask: Whose trauma counts? Whose voice gets heard? Whose borders—physical, racial, linguistic—are crossed, erased, or policed in the name of revolution? And above all, when do we demand that more diverse stories are told?
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https://selevermagazine.com/2025/05/the-incomplete-revolution-of-the-handmaids-tale/
