Lectures on Tap - "Feminist Philosophies of The Handmaid’s Tale"

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🧠 Lecture: "Feminist Philosophies of The Handmaid’s Tale"

🎤 Speaker: PhD Candidate, Alexandra Stamson

Join us for a gripping evening exploring Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale through a feminist philosophical lens. In Atwood’s Gilead, women’s oppression and reproductive control form the backbone of a chilling theocracy—one that feels increasingly close to our own reality.

This lecture will examine how gender, government intervention into women’s rights, and reproduction as an axis of control in Atwood’s dystopia mirror dynamics in our society today. By tracing the history of women’s rights and the modern ideologies that seek to undermine them, Alexandra Stamson will offer tools to better understand, name, and resist these encroachments.

Alexandra Stamson is a lecturer and PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, a public philosopher, and a resident lecturer at Lectures on Tap in NYC. Her work in feminist epistemology and media studies investigates how our environments and cultural narratives shape our understanding of ourselves and others.

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Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.