Resisting dystopia -- Part I: but they were godless: A great darkness filled with echoes -- Dystopia from a woman's point of view -- Gestational totalitarianism -- The United States of Gilead? -- Part I: faith is only a word, embroidered: Inside Gilead's misogynist papers -- Serena Joy, miserable, despicable -- Remix in Gilead -- From the handmaid's tale to the handmaids' tale -- Part III: dying of too much choice: A rose by any other brand -- Babies and pleasures -- What about the men? -- Gilead as Palimpsest -- Part IV: how easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all: Gilead vs. the self -- The value of a handmaid -- June the stoic? -- Who is the meanest of them alll? -- Part V: I tell, therefore you are: The red and the black -- Smoke and mirrors in Gilead -- How language shapes reality in Gilead -- Under a watchful eye -- Part VI: Gilead in the rearview mirror: A response to Professor Pieixoto -- References -- Mayday members -- Index.