- Written in a decade of pushback against the rise of feminism in the 1970s
- The pushback wanted women to shove women back into the home and deprive them of their rights
- The Handmaids Tale was an answer to the question of what would happen if the pushback succeeded in their efforts
- Written when Berlin was encircled by the Berlin Wall, the atmosphere and the animosity between the west and east side of berlin inspired the atmosphere in The Handmaids Tale
- People in Berlin were constantly cautious of what they said or who heard them
- The pushback of women reproductive rights in today’s United States is swiftly growing