Thinking about bonsai trees
Judith Shklar, 18 April 1985
Dominance and Affection: The Making of Pets
by Yi-Fu Tuan.
Yale, 193 pp., £15.95, October 1984,0 300 03222 6 Show More
by Yi-Fu Tuan.
Yale, 193 pp., £15.95, October 1984,
“... Yi-Fu Tuan’s Dominance and Affection is not, as its title might suggest, about people who like and love their oppressors. It is an account of the many ways in which the strong torment the weak of whom they claim to be fond. Overtly hostile acts produce victims, but affection also has aggressive impulses and it creates what Tuan calls ‘pets ... ”