Women Property: Birth Control and Film Festival

women property: The show comes on the heels of another series inspired by an Atwood book, the dystopian saga The Handmaid's Tale, about a totalitarian theocracy that makes women property of the state and forces some to bear children for infertile couples, according to The Chronicle Herald. The TV series is up for 13 Emmy Awards on Sunday. The Canadian literary star is at the Toronto International Film Festival promoting the new CBC/Netflix miniseries Alias Grace, an adaptation of her 1996 novel about a poor Irish immigrant convicted of killing her employers in 1843. Both series examine the treatment of women and immigrants in society, with The Handmaid's Tale having a particularly chilling effect amid the U.S. battle over rights to birth control and abortion. It's not good for the world to have a weak United States. If I had the choice of wallowing in comparative obscurity and not having this government in power, or the present moment, I think I can honestly say at my age I would take the first because this development is not good for the world, Atwood, 77, said Wednesday in an interview. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.