Sweet Nothings [electronic resource]

Madison Griffiths2025

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Summary

Thirty years on from The First Stone, Madison Griffiths is ready to blow the conversation wide open The professor who whispers sweet nothings into his students’ ears makes sweet nothings out of them. Sweet Nothings is a gripping account of four women’s interwoven stories in the wake of having once been students who embarked on romantic relationships with their university professors. Through the stories of Rose, Blaine, Cara and Elsie, Griffiths explores what these relationships tell us about power and interrogates how class and gender are expressed and exploited in our academic institutions. By tackling sex, desire and its consequences in a university setting, Griffiths looks keenly at the gender imbalances that inform these affairs, and how thorny betrayal becomes when a woman is made to believe she is the ‘exception to the rule’ only to find out she is one of many. Griffiths’ portrayal reveals, with searing candidness, the labyrinth of ego, ambition, an...