Ashenhurst said the impetus to put down the shaver for a month came in the form of a message to Anderson from Hailey Aderman, regional director of special events for Special Olympics Wisconsin. â
Definition of handmaiden. 1  1 : a personal maid or female servant. 2  2 : something whose essential function is to serve or assist criticism is not the enemy of art but rather its handmaiden â Gary Michael.
While the genre of the book is open to debate (Valerie Martin in the introduction of the 2006 Everymanâs Library edition, suggests political satire, allegory, and even âreconstructed post-print novelâ), I would argue that The Handmaidâs Tale by Margaret Atwood can be seen to firmly fit within the genre of science fiction, often called âspeculative ...