Why Jacqueline Rose wants you to embrace the unknown
The feminist thinker on the violence we ignore in everyday life—especially against women—and why we need to plumb the depths of our disordered minds to stop it
June 5, 2021
As a child, Jacqueline Rose’s bus ride to her grammar school would take her from a middle-class home in Hayes on the outskirts of west London through the working-class south Asian immigrant communities of Southall, where New Zealand schoolteacher Blair Peach would later be killed in 1979 while protesting against the National Front; it would then wind past a famous asylum in Hounslow, over whose thick walls Rose peered.