... 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 ... those who are operating on a primal aesthetic. In a traditional dystopian tale, the protagonist would have been attracted to this lost way of life; Montag or Winston Smith would not have refloode...

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