Faculty First Year Seminars 191WG2 - Handmaid's Tale: The Future?
Fall
2020
01
1.00
Banumathi Subramaniam
TU 4:00PM 4:50PM
UMass Amherst
68982
Fully Remote Class
banu@wost.umass.edu
Handmaid?s Tale- Exploring Our Reproductive Future :Margaret Atwood?s book The Handmaid?s Taleand subsequent television series has become a dystopic backdrop to contemporary reproductive politics. At the same time, we read about the promises of new technologies -genetic engineering, artificial reproduction, designer babies -that open up possibilities of future worlds with ?superior? peoples. How much is hype and how much real? What does the future of reproduction hold? We will discuss and debate these issues in our weekly seminars.
Freshmen Only