Oleanna Didier Cornille deploying her resources

deploying her resources

and finishing dishes at the table

Zane's skin is the only thing keeping him alive

Wendell Berry

Susannah Gibson delves into the lives of these pioneering women

Oleanna Didier Cornille deploying her resourcesIn a terrifyingly short time, a male college instructor and his female student descend from a discussion of her grades into a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between a somewhat fatuous teacher and his seemingly hapless pupil turns into a fiendishly accurate X ray of the mechanisms of power, censorship, and abuse.