Margaret Atwood’s Frustrating Feminism

If you are the kind of person who absolutely must know where your favourite novelists stand on any given political issue, Margaret Atwood presents a confounding figure. In an era when so many fans demand that artists advertise which side of the Left-Right divide they’re on — lest some hapless consumer accidentally engage with or, actually enjoy the creative product of a member of Team Bad — Atwood has, to immense frustration, refused to spell out her beliefs.