The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: femicide

  • Campus Violence

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    Heidi Darroch
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    A student at the college where I teach was murdered last month; Naomi Sturrock was studying massage therapy, and her loss is being felt profoundly. From the Times-Colonist coverage, this sentence caught my eye: “The attack is believed to be isolated and poses no ongoing risk to public safety, police said.” But femicide is, of…

  • Reading Pat Lowther’s Poetry Against the Archive

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    Heidi Darroch
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    I’ve spent much of the past several days reading and re-reading The Collected Works of Pat Lowther, edited by Christine Wiesenthal. Lowther died, in 1975, at age 40. Too often, her violent death has been considered with closer attention and care than her work. Part of this is the inevitable sensationalism, and voyeurism, linked to…