Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-183) and index
Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part 1: Exteriority (I); 1 The Edible Woman; 2 Surfacing; 3 Lady Oracle; 4 Life Before Man; Part 2: Politics Foregrounded; 5 Bodily Harm; Part 3: Interiority; 7 Cat's Eye; 8 The Robber Bride; Part 4: Exteriority (II); 9 Alias Grace; 10 The Blind Assassin; 11 Oryx and Crake; 12 The Year of the Flood; 13 Atwood Overall; Works Cited; Index
Suggesting that politics and power are at the centre of Margaret Atwood's fiction, Sheckels examines Atwood's novels from The Edible Woman to The Year of the Flood. Sheckels stresses that Atwood's work should not be viewed as political commentary but rather as a creative treatment of the laudable, but ultimately only partially successful ways in which women and other groups resist the constraints placed on them by institutionalised oppression