As his dark closet shows, Bluebeard was a collector at heart, and even after dispatching a wife, could not let her fully depart.

As Atwood concludes after a random and informal sampling, men and women differ markedly in the ‘scope of their threatenability’: ‘Why do men feel threatened by woman?’ I asked a male friend of mine….'[M]en are...

Power,’ as the sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda writes, ‘enters the picture in two ways’: the first entails constructing and legitimizing the moral system itself; the second, in enforcing it. In this view, ‘deviants are those who...