Gênero, sexualidade e trabalho : a lei do planejamento familiar sob o viés de “O conto da AIA”

Abstract

The present study analyses the work The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood, through a critical view of gender studies. First, I define the text as a dystopic novel, belonging to the Science Fiction genre. Hereby, I point the ways in which we are able to find the defining characteristics of such genres inside the work. Then, I relate the way women are portrayed in the narrative with the predominantly patriarchal culture of the society in which we are inserted; exposing the direct connection between the stereotype of women in our current society and the categories created in the plot. Finally, I extend this criticism to the legislative aspect, drawing a parallel between Gilead's authoritarian regime and the translation of Reproductive Rights in the Family Planning Law, as an instrument of perpetuation of the patriarchal system based on the idea of inferiority of women.