Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance.The Handmaid who narrates the novel, now part of the breeder class in the theocratic reproductive dystopia those feminists inadvertently helped to establish, mordantly reproaches her long-deceased radical feminist mother for the unintended consequences of these politics: “You wanted a women’s culture? Well now there is one.
The ecstatic feminists in Atwood’s novel who pile smutty magazines and stripper tat onto bonfires in the “Manhattan cleanup” – those figures, I knew directly, were were the anti-porn campaigners like Andrea Dworkin and her lawyer ally Catharine MacKinnon. But I knew who she was and what she was supposed to stand for. I hadn’t so much as cracked the spine on one of Dworkin’s works then – as a teenager in the 1990s, I grew up on the knowing bawdiness of Britpop and girl power, and I imbibed the understanding that the sex wars had been settled with Dworkin on the losing side, so I never read her. When I read Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale, I identified Andrea Dworkin straight away.
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