Sociological Perspectives on Gender and Sexual Violence in The Handmaid's Tale
This essay aims to highlight and explain the gender inequality, the sexual assault and the rape in Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale from a feminist perspective, using the theory of the individualist, interactionist and institutional approach to gender found in Wharton’s The Sociology of Gender. Research...
Main Author: | Nyberg, Björn |
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Format: | Others |
Language: | English |
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Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier
2018
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Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-151322 |
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