(1) What goes on in The Handmaid’s Tale [the overthrow of the US government by a theocratic dictatorship that suppresses the rights of women] is actually confined to what used to be the United States.
(2) To those of us who work to protect women’s freedoms this case feels like the early days of The Handmaid’s Tale: the temperature in the bathtub is rising swiftly and silently.
(3) I was perhaps too optimistic to end the Handmaid's story with an outright failure.
(4) To quote The Handmaid’s Tale : “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
(5) Morally provocative and darkly funny with plenty of sex (including some fashionable sadomasochism), the series will be lapped up by fans of The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake .
(6) The Handmaid’s Tale neatly set my world on its head.
(7) The Handmaid's Tale has often been called a "feminist dystopia", but that term is not strictly accurate.
(8) Sarah: I read Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale at 19, struggling through my second year at a conservative Baptist college.
(9) Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale seems to have moved from fiction to prophecy, with news of a court case in England that could lead to the prosecution of women who drink alcohol while pregnant.
(10) The Handmaids themselves are a pariah caste within the pyramid: treasured for what they may be able to provide – their fertility – but untouchables otherwise.
(11) The Handmaid's Tale is reissued this month by the Folio Society
(12) No, this is not The Handmaid’s Tale , we are told, in a “ calm down, dear ” sort of way, and we should merely accept the DUP’s mix of creationism, misogyny and homophobia as a quirk of coalition.
(13) People – not only women – have sent me photographs of their bodies with phrases from The Handmaid's Tale tattooed on them, " Nolite te bastardes carborundorum " and "Are there any questions?"
(14) When asked whether The Handmaid's Tale is about to "come true", I remind myself that there are two futures in the book, and that if the first one comes true, the second one may do so also.
(15) The Handmaid's Tale has not been out of print since it was first published, back in 1985.
(16) On 10 June there is a cryptic entry: "Finished editing Handmaid's Tale last week."
(17) Stories about the future always have a "what-if" premise, and The Handmaid's Tale has several.
(18) In fact, in The Handmaid’s Tale , England is the country of choice where escaped women want to go.
(19) It has become a sort of tag for those writing about shifts towards policies aimed at controlling women, and especially women's bodies and reproductive functions: "Like something out of The Handmaid's Tale " and "Here comes The Handmaid's Tale " have become familiar phrases.
(20) Photograph: PR Ma’ Rosa (Brillante Mendoza, Philippines) Bacalaureat (Cristian Mungiu, Romania) Loving (Jeff Nichols, US) The Handmaid (Park Chan-wook, South Korea) The Last Face (Sean Penn, US) Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu, Romania) Elle (Paul Verhoeven, France) The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, US) Out of competition Facebook Twitter Pinterest Steven Spielberg’s The BFG.
Handmaiden
Definition:
(n.) A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Central banks – especially the Fed – were the handmaidens to the post-2009 recovery in stock markets as their quantitative easing and cheap money forced down bond yields and drove investors into riskier investments.
(2) Those of us in the UK are thankful that we don’t live in the land of the pussy grabber-in-chief, but in the land of his handmaiden.
(3) Helped by the big society's handmaiden, the Localism Bill , power will be devolved from central government to, for instance, local organisations so they can take over and bid to run local assets and services.
(4) But now you will be remembered forever as torture's handmaiden.
(5) Nurses are portrayed as sex objects, ornaments and as handmaidens to physicians.
(6) "Geography" has traditionally been assigned the role of handmaiden in evolutionary studies.
(7) If it becomes captive to government and handmaiden to the surveillance state, that would be an economic and cultural crime of monstrous proportions.
(8) The uniformed nurse can evoke positive and negative images, ranging from the angel of mercy and handmaiden of the physician, to the inflictor of pain.
(9) Maybe that is why I don't much care about the painted nails of the handmaidens of privatisation.
(10) In 1889, students were handmaidens to the doctor; now they are educated to be professionals functioning within the framework of the nursing process.
(11) He refused to, in his words, “become a mere handmaiden to a settlement privately negotiated on the basis of unknown facts”.
(12) The author takes a look at the four main images of the nurse seen in the media, which are the ministering angel, the battleaxe, the naughty nurse and the doctor's handmaiden and then goes on to take a brief look at the other images commonly perpetuated by the media.
(13) Allied to Wheen's belief that "amnesia is the handmaiden of hypocrisy" and you have what has been described as "a one-man Reuters".
(14) Twenty-first century rock stars are handmaidens to their fans, compelled to expose their lives to scrutiny, whereas, with Mercury, there was a kind of lordly absence of detail.
(15) Nurses have assumed a position of lower status and dependency on physicians, and have been viewed as physicians' helpers or "handmaidens".
(16) Changes in nursing curricula have caused two problems for perioperative nursing: it is difficult to recruit nurses since few understand the specialty, and there is a perception that the perioperative nurse is a handmaiden to the physician.
(17) They are publishing's underpaid handmaidens, assistants to editors and literary agents, lured by their love of books into some of the city's most thankless jobs.