Editor’s Note: See “Body Ecology and Commodification in The Handmaid’s Tale” by Rebecca Bratten Weiss, and more to come.

Over the next few weeks, IJFAB Blog will have several original blog entries on The Handmaid’s Tale, both the book and the new Hulu series that just began releasing episodes online Wednesday April 26, 2017. Until those are in and posted, this Editor provides a list of thought-provoking reflections on the book and the series from the general media:

• “‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Show Will Make a Major Change to the
  

  IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This image is from one of the original covers to the book by Margaret Atwood. It is handdrawn and shows a row of women in red dresses with white old-fashioned nun/burse-like white headdresses. The women wear read gloves and the dresses cover their whole bodies except for their faces. The women in line do not appear to be pregnant. To the left of the line, and closer, is a woman in the same garb looking down, who is very pregnant and whose breasts are visible enlarged. Her hands rest on the top of her belly.

  Book” (no longer will Gilead be explicitly white supremacist, but will focus on gender)

• “Living in the Gaps Between the Stories: Race at the Margins of the Handmaid’s Tale” (focuses on the book)
• “Margarate Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump” (by Margaret Atwood)
• “‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: A Newly Resonant Dystopia Comes to TV” (notes that the initial scenes were filmed in fall of 2016, before the Women’s March, and yet show scenes of women marching for the rights to disastrous outcome as police open fire on the demonstrators)

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IJFAB blog has also had previous blog entries that address the general issue of control over women’s reproduction and the social importance of reproduction:

• “Controlling Pregnant Women–Again” by Ruth Macklin
• “A Fictive Reality: Science Fiction, Dystopia, and Assisted Reproduction” by Alana Cattapan
• “Does a womb make you a woman?” by Katy Fulfer and Angel Petropanagos
• “A First: Uterus Transplant Gives Parents a Healthy Baby” by Patrick J. Welsh
• “The Pendulum Swings? Spain faces a return to an era of very restricted access to abortion” by Alison Reiheld
• “When Fetal Rights Trump Those of Patient and Family” by Ruth Macklin
• “The Influence of the Catholic Church on Public Argentinian Universities After Pope Francis” by Julieta Arosteguy
• “Of births and beds: thinking spatially about obstetric violence” by Rachel Tillman
• “On the Costs of Simplistic Thinking: Reproductive Health Clinics Aren’t Just for Abortions” by Alison Reiheld
• “Choosing Surrogacy and Remaining Child-Free: Reflections on Two Recent Stories about Reproductive Choice” by Toby Schonfeld
• “‘They all wanted it done’: Eugenics–Now Showing in a State Prison Near You!” by Anna Gotlib
• “When Drug Use Isn’t Just About Anti-Drug Laws: Criminalizing Pregnancy Behavior” by Alison Reiheld
• “US Woman Denied Dental Care Because She is Pregnant” by Angela Ballantyne
• “Not All Objectification is Sexual: The Return of the Fetal Container” by Alison Reiheld