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Madden, D. (2019, September 13). The handmaid’s tale: No wonder we’ve got a sequel in this age of affronts on women’s rights. The Conversation.
A nightmarish reification of anti-choice rhetoric, this seminal feminist text has informed and mobilised pro-choice movements throughout the world. Protesters in Europe, the US and Latin America have donned the handmaids’ iconic costumes – blood-red robes and isolating white bonnets – to advocate access to abortion.
Acuna, K. (2017, June 4). 'The handmaid's tale' author on anti-abortion legislation in Texas: 'It is really a form of slavery to force women to have children they cannot afford'. Insider.
The quick-witted 77-year-old was very candid during an hour-long panel where the conversation covered a range of topics from Hitler, East Berlin, and the bizarre vagueness of women's sanitary ads. During a Q&A portion with the audience, a man asked Atwood where we go as a country from here when "it's virtually impossible for a woman to get an abortion in the state of Texas."
Zettel, M. (2019, May 18). Handmaid protesters confront MPP Sam Oosterhoff over reproductive rights. The Star.
Inadvertently or not, it appears Sam Oosterhoff has raised an army.

And that army, many dressed in the red cloak uniform inspired by the recent adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, made a show of strength Saturday at what might otherwise have been a quiet community coffee event held by the Progressive Conservative MPP at the Grimsby branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Location: PS 8501 .T86 H35 2017 (Located at NDC)
Publication Date: (1986)
Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, ...