Portrayal Of Ideal Domestic Sphere

Question 1

Key ideas

Answer 1

Domestic feminism - feminism is contained and domesticated : attached to essentialist and western conservative notions of womanhood
The allegories and iconography of THT have been used in women’s reproductive rights activism around the world.

Realises the fears and solutions of the con far right and imagines a future where the US is usurped by a theocratic totalitarian regime amidst a fertility crisis.

Women r explicitly organised in a class system according to their reproductive, domestic and sexual capacity.

The dystopic body= masculinist power subjugates hms through the objectification and erasure of the bodies, female body as a disruptive force, a site where constant power play occurs through novel

Question 2

Gilead revolves around the destruction and restoration of family

Answer 2

Analepsis, Hannah and Luke in all three forms, pregnant through her own desires

‘The commander’s wife directs, pointing w/her stick. Many of the wives have such garden, it’s something for them to order and maintain and cure for.’ Chapter 3. Garden works as a metaphor n substitute here for childbearing. Offred responds ‘I once had a garden’ shows how she once had a child, repressed the ‘fullness’ of her family and maternal nature. But whilst offred cared for own garden, the wife does not. She directs someone else to take care of it,just as she directs the hm to produce a child for her— despotic body

Question 3

Intensions

Answer 3

Used as transnational shorthand to advocate for the importance of legislation and discourses that safeguard women’s reproductive rights.
Satire on biological essentialism, gender roles and the pitfalls of ‘the institution of motherhood’

Question 4

Domesticated nature of woman

Answer 4

Epigraph, ceremony, ‘we r jubilant’

Men as breadwinner get a ‘promotion’

Intersectionality - unwomen colonies and unbaby.

Women scapegoating - Janine, ‘the problem wasn’t only with the women’ ‘fruitful vs barren’ sterile
‘He was not a monster’ Ruth kalder

Question 5

Comparisons

Answer 5

Maternally void in frank
Monster condemned vs births celebrated in hm
Women as functional and scapegoats
Search for relationship - Nick