День: 22.09.2015

Recovering Academic

The Long and Winding Road jean kazez I started off my career as a college professor in a promising way, with four tenure-track job offers. Although the job I accepted wasn’t the most pres­tigious, it offered intellectually congenial colleagues and the advantages of big-city living. That is to say: lots of men. I was thirty-five, […]

“A Child Is Being Beaten (I Am Looking On)”: The Beating Fantasy, Spectatorship, and Female Sadism

This chapter draws upon psychoanalytic theory to attempt to discover reasons for the particular treatment, or lack thereof, the Homolka case received from mainstream and feminist legal and media discourses. Psychoanalysis seems most apposite to the study of this case as several of the narrations of the behav­iour of Karla Homolka echo Freud’s articulation of […]