Mothers Yesterday and Mothers Tomorrow, but Never Mothers Today: Woman on the Edge of Time and The Handmaid’s Tale

Mothers Yesterday and Mothers Tomorrow, but Never Mothers Today: Woman on the Edge of Time and The Handmaid’s Tale

The stories I have considered thus far explore three disparate subcultures wherein the loss of children is the historic norm, and most of the mothers in question are positioned as deviant and marginalized persons—lesbians, black women, Native Americans, and people of mixed blood. Having begun at the...

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