La donna come "outsider". Oltre il totalitarismo di Gilead

Building on Margaret Atwood's novel "The Handmaid's Tale", this essay discusses how insider-outsider dynamics can be entrenched in legal systems so as to marginalize an entire half of the population (the female one) and/or to build a totalitarian State. A comparison with Naomi Alderman's "The Power", in turn, helps reflect on how substituting ingrained unbalances of power with equal and opposite ones can never lead to a more fair and just society. Only legal frameworks built to support "bridging social capital" can actually achieve a better balance between the rights and aspirations of all social groups.