The Tale of the Maid and Progressive Maternalism - The Voice of the Leftover

Make kin, not babes Dona Haraway The novel The story of the maid, by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, has become one of the most popular dystopias of recent years, not only because of her film version but because it deals with a subject that is very close to becoming reality: the possibility that humanity ceases to reproduce. In the novel, she portrays the life of Defred, a young inhabitant of the Republic of Gilead ruled by a totalitarian state…