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This study recontextualizes Canadian writer Margaret Atwood's novel “The Handmaid's Tale” following the method of feminist literary criticism within the framework of reproductive policies defined as reproduction. The novel, as an example of feminist dystopia, describes an isolated regime in which healthy women are assigned to serve elite childless families due to the ecological conditions. These women are charged with breeding in the fictional Gilead Republic's caste system and turned into reproductive properties. The second wave of feminism is criticized for its “essentialist” understanding that emphasizes the very nature of women as this approach coincides with some discourses on the exclusion of women from the public sphere and the confinement of them into the private sphere. Hannah Arendt, known as one of the most influential political philosophers of the 20th century, has also been criticized for the same motives, although the philosopher herself never took a position on behalf of feminist movement. This study aims to discuss the dystopic imagination of the phenomenon of natality, which Arendt calls “miracle” as the metaphor of plurality and freedom against singularity and captivity, in the case of “The Handmaid’s Tale”. The study, investigating the possibility of feminist approaches to biopolitical literature, concluded that birth, which is under the authority of the state, does not only have the potential for positive action. The concept can be surrounded by two different semantic fields under libertarian or repressive regimes.

“The Handmaid’s Tale”: The body as a reproduction property in contrast to Arendt's notion of natality