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Year Atwood delivered 'Spotty-Handed Villainesses' speech
Year Atwood delivered 'Spotty-Handed Villainesses' speech
1994
Full title of Atwood's 1994 speech
Full title of Atwood's 1994 speech
Spotty-Handed Villainesses: Problems of Female Bad Behaviour
Atwood's dystopian novel mentioned in the note
Atwood's dystopian novel mentioned in the note
The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Atwood's central argument about female characters
Atwood's central argument about female characters
Complex, morally ambiguous women in fiction
Lady Macbeth's moral status in Atwood's metaphor
Lady Macbeth's moral status in Atwood's metaphor
'Spotted' (morally stained)
Ophelia's moral status in Atwood's metaphor
Ophelia's moral status in Atwood's metaphor
'Unspotted' (pure, innocent)
Victorian ideal promoting purely virtuous women
Victorian ideal promoting purely virtuous women
'Angel in the House' ideal
Binary that limits female representation
Binary that limits female representation
Angel/Whore dichotomy
Primary audience of Atwood's speech
Primary audience of Atwood's speech
Writers' Union of Canada (fellow writers)
Third-wave feminism concept recognising overlapping discrimination
Third-wave feminism concept recognising overlapping discrimination
Intersectionality