Social Science, Women's Studies
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Swarm Before Me
The Tragic Case of Becker v Pettkus by Samuel Schwisberg
On November 5, 1986, Rosa Becker, the estranged common law partner of a successful beekeeper in Eastern Ontario, shot herself in the head and died. That fatal shot reverberated throughout the Canadian legal system when her suicide note revealed...
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The Beekeeper's Wife
by Shanda Hansma Blue
The Beekeeper’s Wife is inspired by Herbert Scott’s poem of the same name. It is an attempt to imagine the life of the woman behind the poem. Shanda Hansma Blue’s The Beekeeper’s Wife is a brilliant poetic argument between nature and the reader,...
