Abstract
This paper investigates how to configure masculinities in the TV series The Handmaid’s Tale. From the perception that the show suggests the failure of the modern idea of progress, we observe how the future in the narrative is frightening by its “pastness”, since there is a resumption of old projects and worldviews to base the religious Republic of Gilead, where the plot takes place. In a tension between utopia, dystopia and retrotopia, the search for the reaffirmation of an ideal of masculinity sets the tone of the authoritarian regime, in which men establish power from the subjugation of women, from the hardening of the concept of family and from control of space.
Key-words
masculinities; utopia; dystopia; TV series