... 's The Wanderground (1980) also inspired their opposite, the feminist anti-utopia or dystopia. In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1986) women are enslaved to men, either as decorative spouses or as simple breeding machines. The feminist dystopia, like in general, takes the form of an intensification and projection of currently existing patterns; hence the feminist utopia will often contain an explicit anti-utopia to ... symbolic roles, not sufficently humanised to appear real, and therefore having no dramatic impact. One could argue, especially in the light of the "Death of Affect...

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