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The Handmaid’s Tale: Feminism and Religion
Lecture no. 23 from the course: Sci-Phi: Science Fiction as Philosophy
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Taught by Professor David K. Johnson | 36 min
The television adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale offers a grim vision of a future in which religious fanaticism reshapes the United States into a misogynist totalitarian state. Professor Johnson provides a brief overview of the meaning(s) and different stages of feminism in the 20th century and examines what the disenfranchisement of women says about the uses and abuses of power.
24 Lectures
1
Inception and the Interpretation of Art
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of 34 min
2
The Matrix and the Value of Knowledge
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of 33 min
3
The Matrix Sequels and Human Free Will
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of 34 min
4
The Adjustment Bureau, the Force, and Fate
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of 32 min
5
Contact: Science versus Religion
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of 34 min
6
Arrival: Aliens and Radical Translation
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of 34 min
7
Interstellar: Is Time Travel Possible?
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of 34 min
8
Doctor Who and Time Travel Paradoxes
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of 35 min
9
Star Trek: TNG and Alternate Worlds
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of 33 min
10
Dark City, Dollhouse, and Personal Identity
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of 36 min
11
Westworld and A.I. Artificial Intelligence
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of 36 min
12
Transcendence and the Dangers of AI
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of 35 min
13
The Thirteenth Floor: Are We Simulated?
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of 33 min
14
The Orville, Orwell, and the “Black Mirror”
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of 34 min
15
Star Wars: Good versus Evil
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of 33 min
16
Firefly, Blake’s 7, and Political Rebellion
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of 34 min
17
Starship Troopers, Doctor Who, and Just War
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of 35 min
18
The Prime Directive and Postcolonialism
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of 33 min
19
Capitalism in Metropolis, Elysium, and Panem
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of 34 min
20
Snowpiercer and Climate Change
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of 36 min
21
Soylent Green: Overpopulation and Euthanasia
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of 34 min
22
Gattaca and the Ethics of Reproduction
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of 32 min
23
The Handmaid’s Tale: Feminism and Religion
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of 36 min
24
Kubrick’s 2001 and Nietzsche’s Ubermensch
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of 38 min
