Class

Question 1

Intersectionality can be defined as:

Answer 1

how certain aspects of who you are increase your access to good things or exposure to bad.

Question 2

Who defined intersectionality?

Answer 2

Kimberle Crenshaw

Question 3

What other theory links to THT?

Answer 3

Marxism

Question 4

The proletariat

Answer 4

Working class

Question 5

Bourgeoise

Answer 5

control labour of working class

Question 6

What does THT through the lens of Marxism say?

Answer 6

‘Handmaids stand as a symbol of the proletariat subjugated by the bourgeoise to the point of slavery’

Question 7

Commander quote which highlights he’s the most powerful

Answer 7

‘Commander is the head of the household’ ch14

Question 8

Commander quote which shows he still has privileges

Answer 8

‘Still able to get coffee’ Ch2

Question 9

‘Able to qualify for a wife or even a handmaid’ Ch34

Answer 9

Angels are high ranked men.

Question 10

Guardians presented with some freedom

Answer 10

‘Lives here in the household’ Ch4

Question 11

Guardians presented as being low status

Answer 11

‘He hasn’t been issued with a woman’ Ch4

Question 12

‘Childless or older woman who were not married’

Answer 12

Lack of respect upon discussing aunts as they are unable to do a woman’s main function

Question 13

‘Allowed to read and write’

Answer 13

Aunts have some status due to enforcing Gilead’s rules, rewarded

Question 14

Wives presented as having great power and influence

Answer 14

‘The transgressions of women in the household are under the jurisdiction of the wives’ Ch26

Question 15

Wives presented as having privileges

Answer 15

‘Ride in cars, drink tea, coffee, wine’ Ch20

Question 16

‘Position of honour’ Ch3

Answer 16

Enforce opression onto Handmaids by labelling them this as they are ensuring survival of human race however abused.

Question 17

‘Reclassification as unwoman’ Ch23

Answer 17

Handmaids have no freedom and are constantly under threat

Question 18

Unwoman as the lowest rank in Gilead

Answer 18

‘Work at toxic dumps’ Ch38

Question 19

Unwoman seen as inhumanly

Answer 19

Compared to ‘garbage’ Ch33

Question 20

‘Some day when times improve no one will have to be an econwife’ Ch8

Answer 20

Econwives regarded as low status.

Question 21

Martha’s presented as having freedoms

Answer 21

‘Baking, cooking, socialising’ Ch2

Question 22

‘Wear makeup, drink alcohol, engage in lesbian relationships and relationships with men’

Answer 22

Presents Jezebels as status symbols with freedom.

Question 23

‘Eventually sent to colonies’

Answer 23

Presents jezebels being discarded from society eventually as they are woman forced to be sex workers.

Question 24

Gilead as a white supremist place which justifies slavery

Answer 24

‘resettlement of COH’ Ch14