Canadian author Margaret Atwood says a deterioration in women's rights in some parts of the world, including in the United States, prompted her to write a sequel to her best-selling 1985 novel ‘The Handmaid's Tale’. TheTestaments
LONDON - Canadian author Margaret Atwood said a deterioration in women’s rights in some parts of the world including in the United States prompted her to write a sequel to her best-selling 1985 novel “The Handmaid’s Tale”.
“But then a couple of things happened. Instead of going away from Gilead as I thought had been happening in the 1990s, we started going back towards Gilead in a number of places in the world including the United States.” Many doctors and rights groups are fighting these efforts as harmful to women’s health and in breach of a constitutional right to abortion.
The series helped the original novel shoot back up the bestseller lists, and made the handmaid’s uniform of a long dark red cloak and large white bonnet a symbol of female protest and resistance. Another fan, 40-year-old Stacey Morris, said: “My daughter is 12 and she’s just starting to understand feminism and the importance of being a woman... I’d really like for her to read this in the future and to be able to share this with her.”
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