In my thesis, I will write about the position of women, their bodies, and the realization of biological and social obligations imposed on them by the politics in the literary worlds of certain contemporary dystopian novels. Using M. Foucault's theory of »biopolitics«, I will examine the practices of controlling life, especially women in the novels: The handmaids tale by Margaret Atwood (1985), Filio is not at home by Berta Bojetu (Filio ni doma, 1990) and School for good mothers by Jessamine Chan (2022). In the first two, I will focus primarily on the biological obligation of women as objects of regeneration and preservation of civilization. In the novel School for good mothers, I will explore the social role of women as mothers in a world where parenting can only be right or wrong. All three novels also showcase strategies of discipline and surveillance, which significantly contribute to the justification of political systems in these novels.
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