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Dystopian thinking

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The Politics of Anti-Feminist Science Fiction

There was a rash of anti-feminist science fiction in the 1970s. The Handmaid's Tale, which you also kind of mentioned as part of the canon, has been brilliantly reviewed by one critic who called it 'grisily torture porn' Una: I want to go serialised television is going to do that.

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