Tag: jane-eyre
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Wuthering Heights and Charlotte Brontë’s Unrequited Passion
“Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you–haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe–I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always–take any form–drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!…
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Feminist Revenge Fantasies, Coercive Control, and Intimate Partner Violence
And today, because I’m grappling with this in two other forms of writing, a brief foray into intimate partner violence and proposed Canadian legislation about coercive control. My former Member of Parliament, Laurel Collins, twice brought forward legislation in the House of Commons to address a gap in the law related to “a pattern of…
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Madwomen in Attics and the Academy
I was intrigued to see that York University is creating a new Mad Studies hub. I’m hoping that this will take a disability studies “nothing about us, without us” (Tom Shakespeare) approach. But I worry because of what Shakespeare and Eva Feder Kittay, among many others, have described. People who have intellectual/cognitive and mental/psychiatric disabilities…
