RT Book, Section
T1 Sisterhood or Female Bonding? Third-wave Feminism in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and The Robber Bride (1993)
A1 Bryla, Martyna Marika
A2 Antón Pacheco, Ana
A2 Durán Giménez-Rico, Isabel
A2 Méndez García, Carmen
A2 Neff van Aertselaer, Joanne
A2 Rodríguez Redondo, Ana Laura
K1 Atwood, Margaret - Crítica e interpretación
AB The aim of this chapter is to discuss Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and The Robber Bride (1993) against the backdrop of the third wave of feminism. Mindful of the fact that Margaret Atwood has been ambivalent about being labelled a feminist writer,  this chapter attempts to show that the third wave's voice in the feminist debate is often in unison with the Canadian author's stance on the notions of sisterhood and female bonding in the two novels. Moreover, Atwood’s vision of feminism as a part of a global struggle for human rights is in unison with the third-wave assumption that the movement is not only about women, but about “challenging all oppressions” (Moore 135). Among them third wavers enumerate sexism, racism, homophobia, but also the oppression done to nature. All these issues are of interest to Atwood and run through her fiction.
PB Fundamentos
SN 978-84-245-1235-4
YR 2010
FD 2010
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37491
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37491
LA eng
NO Bryla, Martyna. "Sisterhood or Female Bonding? Third-wave Feminism in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and The Robber Bride (1993)." Diferencia, (des)igualdad y justicia = Differences, (In)Equality and Justice. Estudios de mujeres. Volumen VII. Fundamentos, 2010, pp. 48-55.
NO Cuento con el permiso de la Editorial Fundamentos para depositar el capítulo en RIUMA (correo a la autora)
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 22 ene 2026