The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: jane-eyre

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Jane Eyre and Unreliable Female Narrators: The Bête Noire of Contemporary Thrillers

    “Reader, I married him,” Jane Eyre tells us. “A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.” Guests are out of the question, of course. When one’s first attempt at nuptials has been interrupted by a series of events including, but not limited to, the groom’s mad first wife…