New norms of gender and emergence of identity crisis in
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale

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New norms of gender and emergence of identity crisis in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale

Using Butler's theory of gender performativity and her analysis of the psychic form of power, this paper attempts to show how the modification of gender by power in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale has resulted in an identity crisis in the female protagonist, Offred. One signif...

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Main Authors:	Moosavinia, Sayyed Rahim, Yousefi, Tayyebeh Behvand
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12881/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12881/1/20490-71907-1-PB.pdf

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