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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: The Handmaid's Tale: Opera of Searing Contemporary Resonance
Description: In this whirlwind 2024 political election year, public affairs issues include gender considerations, reproductive rights and governing boundaries.The central concept of "The Handmaid's Tale" opera is based on Margaret Atwood's dystopian-themed 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale—that women are subordinate to men, must take on domestic and subservient roles including ritualized rape. Female worth is tied to becoming mothers. No reading, No owning property, No Careers Allowed. The theocratic extremist government is anti dissidents, academics, and "gender traitors."Discussion about Handmaid's Tale themes—this projected fictional situation of the United St...