Douthat, Ross «'The Handmaid's Tale,' and Ours». The New York Times, 24-05-2017 [Consulta: 28 juliol 2017]. «The first situates the Gilead regime's quest to control the means of reproduction in the context of an enormous fertility collapse, caused by the combination of environmental catastrophe and rampant S.T.D.s.»
Douthat, Ross «'The Handmaid's Tale,' and Ours». The New York Times, 24-05-2017 [Consulta: 28 juliol 2017]. «Now, in the era of the Trump administration, liberal TV watchers find a perverse sort of comfort in the horrific alternate reality of the Republic of Gilead, where a cabal of theonomist Christians have established a totalitarian state that forbids women to read, sets a secret police to watch their every move and deploys them as slave-concubines to childless elites.»