使女的故事.The Handmaid’s Tale

我的使女比拉在這裡，你可以與她同房， 使她生子在我膝下，我便靠她也得孩子。

本書特色:痛訴父權社會壓迫女性的反烏托邦經典小說《使女的故事》，因川普效應重登亞馬遜暢銷榜。

The Handmaid's Tale is set in the Republic of Gilead, a theocratic military dictatorship formed within the borders of what was formerly the United States of America.

Beginning with a staged attack that kills the President and most of Congress, a Christian fundamentalist movement calling itself the "Sons of Jacob" launches a revolution and suspends the United States Constitution under the pretext of restoring order. They are quickly able to take away women's rights, largely attributed to financial records being stored electronically and labelled by sex. The new regime, the Republic of Gilead, moves quickly to consolidate its power and reorganize society along a new militarized, hierarchical model of Old Testament-inspired social and religious fanaticism among its newly created social classes. In this society, human rights are severely limited and women's rights are even more curtailed; for example, women are forbidden to read.

使女的故事》是愛特伍最廣為討論的小說之一，以女性視角描寫分工嚴謹的未來社會，背後是極權統治、階級與性別主義等惡劣結構，被譽為「女性主義的反烏托邦（Dystopia）小說」。

使女的故事》與赫胥黎《美麗新世界》、歐威爾《1984》並列為20

The Handmaid's Tale is a 1985 dystopian novel^[2] by Canadian author Margaret Atwood.^[3][4] Set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States government, the novel explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain individualism and independence. The novel's title echoes the component parts of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which comprises a series of connected stories ("The Merchant's Tale", "The Parson's Tale", etc.).^[5]

The Handmaid's Tale won the 1985 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987; it was also nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award, the 1986 Booker Prize, and the 1987 Prometheus Award. The book has been adapted into a film (1990), an opera (2000), a TV series (2017), and other media.