The Handmaid's Tale: Feminism, Fascism, & The Fractured Self
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
-THIS EPISODE DOES *NOT* CONTAIN SPOILERS-
Speranza joins Breht to critically analyze "The Handmaid's Tale".
Topics include: domestic abuse, patriarchy, Freud, theocratic fascism, white supremacy, class struggle, liberal idealism, and much more!
Find Speranza on Twitter @retroition
Follow her collective @LCPCollective
Here are some resources for people in abusive relationships, in need of reproductive healthcare, and more:
Outro Music: You Don't Own Me by Lesley Gore
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. |
| 0:09.0 | On today's episode we have Sparanza from our radical parenting episode back on to discuss |
| 0:13.8 | the main themes in the Handmaid's Tale. |
| 0:16.6 | Now at the time of the recording I had finished the first two seasons and she had caught up |
| 0:21.1 | with season 3, episode 4. |
| 0:23.6 | These episodes are coming out currently at the moment so they come out every Wednesday |
| 0:27.3 | and so we're sort of in between season 3. |
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| 0:40.6 | So if you have not seen the show and you're worried about spoilers fear not, we've made |
| 0:44.1 | a conscious effort to not put those in this episode so you can definitely listen to this |
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| 1:22.7 | Having said all that, let's get into our episode with Sparanza on the Handmaid's Tale. |
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