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    A feminist approach to the handmaid’s tale
    (UMT, Lahore, 2022) Abeera Arshad Awan
    The Handmaid’s Tale, a feminist text by Margret Atwood tackles the dystopian attitudes of the republic of Gilead. It divulges gender disparity, the dwindling value of women, and women’s subordination by other females in modern society. The novel is about the women who are forced to produce children with the commanders. Their role is just to raise children and after the birth of one child, they are allocated to another family or another commander to start the process of Handmaid all over again. The novel actually emphasizes the atrocities and strict laws of hierarchies of the totalitarian state of Gilead. Religious rights force people to follow rules and regulations. Women are just viewed as an object of fertility. This research aims to unveil the brutal face of the phallocentric system and the Feminist approach will be applied to deeply analyze women’s suffering. Feminism is an approach that raises the issues of gender discrimination, sexuality, women’s identity crisis, and equality of basic rights. Women were always treated as slaves and their role is to be submissive women in the past and in the modern era as well. Because we see various incidents today where women are victimized by their families and other men in society. Young girls are getting harassed by men. Physical abuse of women is still happening as it happened to the women of Gilead in the novel. Women’s role in some areas of our society is still to raise children but we should diminish slavery and provide equality to women in every field. So, the main objective of this study is to illustrate female abomination in the Modern era and how this issue could be tackled because it’s our responsibility to allow women to lead a peaceful life with balanced human rights.