ethics & justice

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The Ethics of Surrogacy in the Handmaid’s Tale

This post follows Traditional Gender Roles in the Handmaid’s Tale. The driving force behind the growth of Gilead’s fictional theocracy is surrogacy. In the Handmaid’s Tale, young, fertile handmaids are forced to bear children for other couples desperate for a family of “their own” to fulfill the command to “be fruitful and multiply.” Most handmaids…

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ethics & justice

Traditional Gender Roles in the Handmaid’s Tale

(If you’re not familiar with The Handmaid’s Tale, either the TV series on Hulu or the 1984 novel by Margaret Atwood, here’s a five minute summary on YouTube. The TV series alters and adds a few details but remains true to the general themes and events of Atwood’s original book.) In both the book and…

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