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Book Review: Fleeing the House of Horrors

Sun, 2007-06-24 14:46 — Scott Neigh

Fleeing the House of Horrors is a work of feminist sociology... It is based on detailed interviews with 39 women in Ontario who had successfully left a relationship with an abusive male partner.

The book spends the first few chapters setting the stage in terms of past research and academic writing in the general field of male violence against women, including...

(See the full review at A Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land.)

Book Review: Thinking Through

Wed, 2007-05-02 15:58 — Scott Neigh

Thinking Through is a short volume of essays, most or all published originally in other venues over a number of years. Himani Bannerji is a Canadian academic whose politics are, as the subtitle would indicate, feminist, anti-racist, and Marxist. It is, however, a particular kind of Marxism, as much of her work develops themes from the work (and the particular reading of Marx) of Dorothy Smith...There are a number of important issues that Bannerji tackles in the book. The first major essay looks at the relationship between identity politics and class politics, and presents...

(See the full review here at A Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land.)

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