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• Author: Margaret Atwood
• First Published: 1985
• Type of Work: Novel
• Genres: Long fiction, Dystopian fiction, Near future and distant future fiction, Feminist science fiction
• Subjects: Dictators, Freedom, United States or Americans, Power, personal or social, Sexism, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, Self, Slavery or slaves, Revolutions, Future, Twenty-first century, Prostitution or prostitutes, Religion, Feminism, Oppression, Women, Conservatism, Infertility, Childbirth, Totalitarianism, Women’s rights
• Locales: Gilead

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