THM : Context

Question 1

1980s : feminist movement entered a new phase of controversy in which both advancement and backlash had risen

Answer 1

feminism

Question 2

1980s : religious right wing fundamentalist groups were growing influence over America , stood with Reagan who valued conservativism “family values” he appealed to religious groups such as “moral majority” who pushed for a return for housewives , no premarital sex , no abortions and resisted LGBT

Answer 2

hierarchy
conservativsm
feminism
control

Question 3

todays readers may receive the text in the context of donald trumps authoritarian tendencies and beliefs for anti-abortion. the intense regulation of this has caused millions of women to live in the Us where abortions are heavily restricted or totally inaccessible

Answer 3

todays audience take on authoritarianism

Question 4

during 1980s : public fear of aids and hiv fed into christian propaganda for no premarital sex and homosexuality this reflects the political back drop of gilead and most likely influenced joe the reasoning for reduced fertility in gilead

Answer 4

influence of premarital sex and sexual disease

Question 5

Margret Atwood studies puritanism in university and many of the practices in gilead are reminiscent of it. they lived in a right theocracy based on a few selections of the bible
new England puritan women were often assigned names such as “silence” “fear” similar to gilead - both branded by oppression

Answer 5

religion / theocracy