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The Handmaid’s Tale : Reproductive Labour and the Social Embeddedness of Markets

Pötzsch, Janelle

Open Philosophy, 2022-01, Vol.5 (1), p.31-43 [同儕審閱期刊]

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The Handmaid’s Tale : Reproductive Labour and the Social Embeddedness of Markets
著者: Pötzsch, Janelle
主題: androcentric culture ; asymmetry thesis ; gender inequality ; reproductive labour ; the handmaid’s tale
所屬期刊: Open Philosophy, 2022-01, Vol.5 (1), p.31-43
描述: Abstract In episode 6 of the first season of The Handmaid’s Tale (2017–, MGM Television), the Republic of Gilead welcomes a trade delegation of the United Mexican States. Offred’s hope that the ensuing trade agreement between Gilead and Mexico would eventually bring the sexual exploitation she and the other handmaids suffer to public are quickly dashed. During a chance encounter at the house of Offred’s master, the Mexican ambassador Mrs Castillo confides in Offred that Mexico is suffering a fertility crisis just like Gilead. Her country is seriously considering trading with Gilead in handmaids (season 1, episode 6, “A Woman’s Place”). My article will use this episode as a starting point to reflect on the correlation between women’s social and economic status. I will illustrate how The Handmaid’s Tale demonstrates that markets are socially embedded and thereby reproduce and amplify social and political inequalities. This series thereby also functions as a powerful validation of the asymmetry thesis concerning markets in reproductive labour.
出版者: De Gruyter
語言: 英文
識別號: ISSN: 2543-8875
EISSN: 2543-8875
DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2020-0158
資源來源: DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals

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