1.0In Plainspeakhttps://www.tarshi.net/inplainspeakPooja Priyamvadahttps://www.tarshi.net/inplainspeak/author/pooja-priyamvada/Under His Eye: The Women and Unwomen in The Handmaid’s Talerich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="7MDxStTwKT"><a href="https://www.tarshi.net/inplainspeak/the-handmaids-tale-women-and-unwomen/">Under His Eye: The Women and Unwomen in The Handmaid’s Tale</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.tarshi.net/inplainspeak/the-handmaids-tale-women-and-unwomen/embed/#?secret=7MDxStTwKT" width="600" height="338" title="“Under His Eye: The Women and Unwomen in The Handmaid’s Tale” — In Plainspeak" data-secret="7MDxStTwKT" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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https://www.tarshi.net/inplainspeak/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1-8.jpg450540The Handmaids Tale leads one to re-examine two forms of social hierarchy: one where women apparently have equal sexual rights as men but have to bear the brunt of unwanted pregnancies, reproductive burdens and the like, and the other where their decisions are institutionalised and robbed of all agency.