![]() Others picture realities where women are further stripped of their bodily autonomy. Some imagine worlds in which gender is fluid, and not nearly as limiting as it is in our own. Much like Atwood, every author on this list draws from the reality of sexism around them to create new futures. ![]() When Atwood wrote The Handmaid's Tale back in the 1980s, she was adamant that all the so-called "sci-fi" in her novel was rooted firmly in real life atrocities committed against women (fun!). But Atwood is far from the only sci-fi author to make the genre unapologetically feminist: here are a few other feminist sci-fi reads, for when you're done re-reading The Handmaid's Tale for the umpteenth time. ![]() ![]() and, as with all good science fiction, it's making us feel all weird and uncomfortable about the present. Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel imagines a future in which women are forced into sexual slavery. Between the recent TV adaption and the actual state of sexism in the world right now, The Handmaid's Tale is back on everyone's mind. ![]()
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