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concept-323	none	Constructions and Reconstructions: Feminism, Postmodernism, and The Handmaid's Tale*	2009	17	.pdf	application/pdf	7721	326	58	The place from which the novel‟s narrator, Offred, speaks is one where her sense of self is defined by her culture as residing solely in her female body and its capacity for reproduction, and where her body is located within a system of technological surveillance. My aim is to enter this dialogue by analyzing how the identities of the handmaids in Atwood‟s novel are constructed by both technological and natural discourses, and also exploring how Offred responds to these discourses, comparing them to her own thoughts, feelings, and memories—that is, how she is “constructed” and how she then creates “reconstructions” of her experiences.	cache/concept-323.pdf	txt/concept-323.txt