![]() ![]() The typical dystopian novel is at least as much about the world it’s set in as it is about the characters who inhabit it. The novels extrapolate from a very real prospect of curtailed rights, especially reproductive rights, to imagine what it would be like to live in a society of forced marriages and pregnancies. Not surprisingly, feminist dystopian narratives are now enjoying a boom, from Hulu’s television adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, “ The Handmaid’s Tale”-Atwood recently announced that she is writing a sequel-to several books by both new and established novelists, including Louise Erdrich’s “ Future Home of the Living God,” Christina Dalcher’s “ Vox,” and Leni Zumas’s “ Red Clocks.” These writers depict a range of inventively punitive societies: in one, women are punished for speaking more than a hundred words per day in another, the government takes pregnant women into custody to manage a fertility crisis. ![]() Like all dystopian narratives, the feminist variety uses stories about how bad the world might become to point out how bad it already is. ![]()
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