critics / critical interpretations - women

Question 1

Bell

Answer 1

“women exist mainly as a source of frustration, irritation and temptation”

Question 2

Callaway

Answer 2

“an evolution of a new form of misogyny where rather than mens hatred of women its women hatred of women”

Question 3

Goldplatt

Answer 3

“the work that the women do conspires to maintain the subjection of their own kind”

Question 4

Callaway

Answer 4

“the gilead takeover can be seen as stemming from the lack of female solidarity in pre-gilead culture and society” - link to witch trials (women denouncing their friends etc as witches)

Question 5

Simone de Beauvoir

Answer 5

“when a woman loses her reproductive capacity, she loses her primary function and therefore her identity”

Question 6

Feuer

Answer 6

“in gilead women are seen as objects rather than subjects”