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Gilead

A religious dictatorship founded on the pretext of a falling birth rate. Women are managed by assigned role, stripped of property, of their names, even of the freedom to read.

Source

The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood / 1985

Gilead, a religious dictatorship established on the pretext of a collapsing birth rate. Women are stripped of property and name and managed by their assigned role. The daily life of oppression is told through Offred, a handmaid placed in a household to bear a child.