Ep. 1 - The Handmaid's Tale

We talk about the Hulu series "The Handmaid's Tale" based on the Margaret Atwood novel and consider why this story is so relevant today and how it handles important political and social issues such as reproductive freedom, immigration, and white nationalism. This episode features Drs. Colleen Donnelly, Sarah Hagelin, and Rodney Herring from UC Denver.

Cited in this episode:

Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus.” Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, Ben Brewster, trans. (New York: Monthly Review, 1971). https://www.amazon.com/Lenin-Philosophy-Other-Essays-Althusser/dp/1583670394/

Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine. (Routledge, 1993). https://www.amazon.com/Monstrous-Feminine-Feminism-Psychoanalysis-Popular-Fictions/dp/0415052599

Gramsci, Antonio. Prison Notebooks, selections of which are available in a single collection:
https://www.amazon.com/Selections-Prison-Notebooks-Antonio-Gramsci/dp/071780397X/

Projansky, Sarah. Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture (NYU Press, 2001). https://books.google.com/books/about/Watching_Rape.html?id=ycIuGP3ZlVwC

Silverman, Kaja. “Suture.” The Subject of Semiotics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983). http://www.davidbardschwarz.com/pdf/silverman.suture.pdf

Žižek, Slajov. “Welcome to the Desert of the Real,” from the collection of essays of the same title (London: Verso, 2002). https://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Desert-Real-September-Related/dp/1859844219/

The song you hear on the show is "Belle et Triste" by Kariatida: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kariatida/Sampler_EP_Vol_10/Kariatida_-_Vulpiano_Records_Sampler_EP_Vol_10_-_01_Belle_et_triste