THEY STOOD in a line outside the Capitol while senators considered a health-care bill that would restrict family-planning services. They reappeared in Washington to watch over the confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh, a controversial Supreme Court justice. In Ohio’s statehouse they sat, heads bowed, as lawmakers discussed banning a common abortion procedure. Each time the protest was silent. Their long crimson gowns and winged white headdresses made the point.
“The Handmaid’s Tale” imagines that the American government has been overthrown by the Sons of Jacob, a fundamentalist Christian group. They murder the president and members of Congress—“they blamed it on the Islamic fanatics”—suspend the constitution and declare the Republic of Gilead. In this totalitarian state, men and women have strict roles.
The new book leaps ahead of the TV series, which itself extended the drama of “The Handmaid’s Tale” far beyond Ms Atwood’s original novel. Set more than 15 years later, “The Testaments” has three main characters: Aunt Lydia, one of the architects of Gilead’s policies towards women; Agnes Jemima, Offred’s first daughter, who is still in Gilead; and Daisy, Offred’s second daughter, who, like her mother, has made it to the safety of Canada. The narrative alternates between their accounts.
I thought the hijab was a symbol of women’s oppression nowadays. Long crimson gowns and winged white headdresses were the Christian hijab of the 17th century, weren't they?
alllibertynews 🙂I knew this was coming..
Where, in the west, are women being 'oppressed'?
Has it been translated to Arabic and Farsi yet?
no they haven't. 'Universal' is a big word, use it responsibly.
If only there was a nonfictional type of clothing that could serve as that symbol 🤔
lol, another symbol, meaningless
I would never wear such a thing. I will not be seen as a victim symbolically or otherwise. I feel the same about nuns’ habits, veils, robes, and all the other nonsense insecure males impose on women.
Fictional oppression, yes.
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