On a desolate island, three sisters have been raised in isolation, sequestered from an outbreak that is causing women to fall ill. To protect themselves from toxins, which men can transmit to women, ...

Before I finally picked up and read Louise Erdrich's new novel, called Future Home of the Living God, there was a mighty obstacle that had to be faced — an obstacle called The Handmaid's Tale. After ...

At a time when women’s rights are once again threatened, it’s worth looking back at what feminist authors warned us about decades ago. When Margaret Atwood published "The Handmaid’s Tale" in 1985, she ...

NEW YORK — “The Handmaid’s Tale” is selling again. Since President-elect Donald Trump clinched his return to the White House, Margaret Atwood’s dystopian classic about a country in which women are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "The Handmaid's Tale" author Margaret Atwood reflects on her parents, feminism and dystopia as her memoir, "Book of Lives: A ...

Sophie Mackintosh's debut novel centers on four women living in a decrepit hotel on an isolated island. Critic Maureen Corrigan says The Water... Suspenseful 'Water Cure' Dips Into 2019's Dystopian ...

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Writing over 30 years ago, feminist film scholar E. Ann Kaplan famously described mothers in cinema as “an absent presence” – background figures that might facilitate the narrative but who are rarely, ...