The explicit memoir Undressing Confessions Naive ... Novice ... Nymphet takes readers along on the author's steamy, coming-of-age journey. Sandra is a naughty girl, a nymphet who gets what she wants, including the men she surrounds herself with and the nightclubs where she dances the night away, meeting more men to fill her life. She is young and beautiful, and men throw themselves at her, not only for her striking Portuguese beauty, but for the uninhibited sex she provides them. At the age of fifteen, she leaves home in Canada for a month-long vacation in Portugal, where her older cousin...

At a time when the mass media insist on bombarding us with news about natural, political and economic disasters, words, ideas and images associated with such "crises" and "catastrophes" shape to a great extent collective memory and current imagination. Fear and Fantasy in a Global World seeks to stir the debate on the processes and meanings of, as well as on the relations between, fear and fantasy in the globalized world. Collective fears and fantasies are analysed from a number of cross-disciplinary perspectives, promoted by the epistemological underpinnings of comparative literature....