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Handmaid's Tale p.1-95, Objectives: SWBAT provide effective support…

- - - - Some kind of spy organization/state security apparatus
  - - - Doctor visit: The doctor says that perhaps the commander is sterile, which is something that he is not supposed to say, and something that is not supposed to be possible within the culture.
      - If a woman is sterile, what happens to her? It seems very dangerous to not be able to reproduce
        
        The job of the handmaid is specifically to reproduce -- she is reduced to her body, and to her potential function as a producer of children
        
        There are other female roles in the culture (Aunts, Marthas, etc.). How is their social value determined?
        
        Econowives
        
        Unwomen
        
        The value of women in the society is relative to the men in their life and the relationship they have with men
        
        This can make us think about women's roles in our own culture
- - - - Whose child would it be? Who would raise it? Whose responsibility would it be?
  - - - It's unclear how handmaids are assigned to men
  - - - The powerful people in the culture encourage this attitude (p. ?)