Sweet Days of Discipline masculinity As the 1970s gave way

As the 1970s gave way to the 80s

With this cultural demolition

Sixty-two years later

she wears a special custom-made dress - the very same dress that was sewn for a different wearer

queerness and sex' New York Times

Sweet Days of Discipline masculinity As the 1970s gave waySet in post war Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's novel begins simply and innocently enough: `At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell'. But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here. With the offhanded knowingness of a remorseless young Eve, the narrator describes life as a captive of the school and her designs to win the affections of the seemingly perfect new girl, Frederique. As she broods over her schemes as well as on the nature