The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: the-housemaid

  • 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…

  • Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid

    Am very late to the party on The Housemaid. I started this novel three times before I finally pushed through to the end, so my experience is clearly a bit different than the legions of fans who rave about it online. On GoodReads there are more than three million ratings and 274,000 some reviews. So…