Elspeth Cameron

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 …

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…