Handmaid's Tale Video
The Novel
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
Baby M and the New Reproductive Technologies from American Decades
Born Again: The Evangelical Movement from American Decades
Taliban from International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences
The 1980's
The 1980's
Environmentalism / Effects of pollution
- Three Mile Island - 1979
- Chernobyl -1986
- Mt. St. Helens erupts - 1980
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
- Soviets
- Afghanistan
- Middle East
Pop Culture/Technology
- Movies/TV/Music
- Fashion
- Technology
Videos
Videos
Environmentalism
- Three Mile Island from ABC News (0:00-2:45)
- Chernobyl Disaster from CNN year in review (5:39-9:00)
- Chernobyl News Report from ABC News (6 minutes)
- Mt. St. Helens Erupts from History Channel (4 minutes)
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