Elspeth Cameron
Elspeth Cameron is a professor of English and Canadian Studies at Brock University. She has won numerous awards for her studies of Canadian cultural figures, and will publish a biography of sculptors Frances Loring and Florence Wyle in 2007.
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Elspeth Cameron
A researcher and practitioner says feminism put up a smokescreen around the problem
January–February 2007
I opened Rethinking Domestic Violence with great interest. More than ten years ago I documented my own departure from an abusive marriage into a lesbian relationship in my memoir No Previous Experience. At that time I read about domestic abuse for the first time—notably Lenore Walker’s The Battered Woman …
Atwood’s disconcerting strength comes from relentless observation and dissection
June 2006
The Tent s Margaret Atwood’s third book of short prose pieces that might be called prose poems, sketches or musings. As in Murder in the Dark (1983) and Good Bones (1992), Atwood collects a number of disparate short writings—many of which have appeared in journals or elsewhere. Even at her most tentative and…