Handmaid's Tale Video

The Novel

Handmaid's Tale from Literature and its Times (feminism, family, and religious fundamentalism)

Handmaid's Tale from Novels for Students (summary, characters, criticism)

Background Articles

Feminism Flounders from American Decades

Taliban from International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences

Environmentalism / Effects of pollution

Social Movements / Politics

Conservatisism -
TV Evangelism - Jerry Falwell, Tammy Faye Baker
Conservatism - Equal Rights Amendment, New Right, Phyllis Schlafly, Pro-Family United, Concerned Women for America, Women United to Defend Existing Rights, and Citizens for God, Family and Country,
Censorship - Pro-Family movement - prayer in school, monitoring textbooks, schools teaching "secular humanism" (evolution),
Homosexuality -
Women's Rights - workplace, reproduction 1972 - first battered women's shelter, first rape crisis center. 1963 - Feminine Mystique (Atwood was 23), BC pill , 1973 - Roe v. Wade (abortionists killed in book),(jobs/bank accounts taken away in book), reproductive technologies (first test-tube baby 1978), surrogacy

International Events

Pop Culture/Technology

Environmentalism

Socio-Political

Conservatism from Crash Course (women's rights background/backlash at 8-10 minutes)
Jerry Falwell on AIDS in 1983
Anita Bryant anti-homosexuality
ABC This Century - Televangelism 23:00-24:00, AIDS 24:00-28:00
Jerry Falwell from CBS News (life overview from 2007) 3 minutes
Phyllis Schlafly
Ronald Reagan on Roe v. Wade in 1983
ERA debate 1973 3 minutes

International

Pop Culture

Remember the 80's? (5 minutes)
I Heart the 80's (4 minutes)
Top Ten 80's events (12 minutes) Cable TV at 1:43-2:43, AIDS 2:43 - 3:43 , Crack 4:24-5:24, Tech 7:37-8:37
ABC This Century 1980's

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