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Handmaid

Women placed in the households of the powerful for the sole purpose of bearing children, allowed neither a name nor a life of their own. Like “Offred,” each is called by the name of her master.

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.