Another “Hot Text” For the War on Women: Rosemary’s Baby

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In Margaret Atwood’s modern classic The Handmaid’s Tale, the U.S. has been replaced by the theocratic Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian state in which men control every aspect of women’s lives. Unsurprisingly it’s 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 women’s health care continues: Rosemary’s Baby—both Roman Polanski’s film and Ira Levin’s novel, on which the film was based.

In your book Satan in America, you quote Darryl Jones as saying “Rosemary’s Baby is a film about men controlling women’s 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!

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1. Also: Woman as Machine as Witch in Fritz Lang's Metropolis