Women and Women: Use of Women Types as Rhetorical Techniques in Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale and Tepper’s Gate to Women’s Country.

In this article, I argue both Margaret Atwood in Handmaid’s Tale and Sheri S. Tepper in Gate to Women’s Country use the same three ‘women type’ characters to explore ideal female gender roles and their relationship to society. Further, I argue that both authors use these characters as part of their...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: William Bowman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research 2014-12-01
Series:Fafnir
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Online Access:http://journal.finfar.org/articles/women-and-women-use-of-women-types-as-rhetorical-techniques-in-atwoods-handmaids-tale-and-teppers-gate-to-womens-country/