The Feminist Movement

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Ashleigh Seipel
Laura Cline
English 102- Online
6 April 2011
The Feminist Movement
The topic I chose to write about relating to Atwood’s text is The Feminist Movement in the United States. I chose this topic because of how closely it relates to the book, “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The Feminist Movement was a time when women were restricted of all their rights including; no political rights, they were not able to run for office, and they also were not allowed to vote (Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology). The Feminist Movement relates to one of the main characters in “The Handmaid’s Tale”, Offred. After getting caught at the border with her husband and little girl, she is taken to the Red Center, where she is also restrained from freedom and all of her rights. Offred only job was to serve the Commander and his wife by conceiving a child for the two. Why were these women captured at the border without choice and taken to the Red Center? What women were actually able to get away and not forced away from their families? Learning about the Feminist Movement in the United States will further my knowledge about the novel because of the close relations they share with one another. Many of these women during this revolution disagreed with the matter and wanted to actually be a part of the political world, rather than just to be used for their sex organs in reproduction. What were Offred’s emotions, thoughts, dreams, during this time of her capture and forced being a Handmaid among the Commander and his wife Serena Joy?