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Butterfly Pinning: an exploration in coercive control
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ISBN13: 9780645081725
Publisher: Linda Ruth Brooks
Published: Mar 19 2021
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Late one afternoon, after revealing his affair with a sixteen year old schoolgirl, Alec left the house in a rage. A loud bang broke open the stillness. Tess felt the air shudder around her, felt it in her blood. Soothing the child, she ran to the rubbish tip on the hill near their house and is shocked on her arrival. What new game is this?
Butterfly Pinning is a modern tale in verse, mirrors the themes of Thomas Hardy's classic, Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Between bold strokes and subtle nuances, Brooks addresses coercive control and sexual abuse where the marriage contract, upheld as a woman's sacred protection, was too often her greatest vulnerability.
Written as an act of resistance against silence.
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