Another “Hot Text” For the War on Women: Rosemary’s Baby
In Margaret Atwoods modern classic The Handmaids Tale, the U.S. has been replaced by the theocratic Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian state in which men control every aspect of womens lives. Unsurprisingly its been the go-to text for critics of the ongoing War on Women.
But I believe an earlier text offers even greater insight into a future in which the multi-pronged assault on womens health care continues: Rosemarys Babyboth Roman Polanskis film and Ira Levins novel, on which the film was based.
In your book Satan in America, you quote Darryl Jones as saying Rosemarys Baby is a film about men controlling womens bodies. It seems to me that the satanic stuff blinds a lot of people to what the story is actually about.
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/sexandgender/5924/another_%E2%80%9Chot_text%E2%80%9D_for_the_war_on_women%3A_rosemary%E2%80%99s_baby
AFAIC, men controlling women IS satanic!