Tag: Joanna Bourke
Sunday essay: Joanna Bourke, the NSW arts minister, and the unruly contradictions of cancel culture
Image: Scold’s bridle, a torture device used to prevent women speaking. Wikimedia common
An earworm has gnawed its way into my brain, looping the same melody...
Sunday essay: Portrait of Marquis de Sade (1740-1814)
Portrait of Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), whose name
and writings gave us the term ‘sadism’ Wikimedia
Between the 1920s and the 1950s, sexual sadism was...