52 min
LadyFiction #10: (Re)reading Little Women for the Holiday Season The Trans-Atlanticist
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- Society & Culture
This episode features Stefanie Schäfer and her guest Amanda Halter discussing
their experiences in reading Louisa May Alcott's 1868/9 classic. We talk
about Jo's meanings as tomboy and archetype of white womenhood,
domesticity and nostalgia, and female authorship, touching also on Great
Gerwig's 2019 film version--and finally, we wonder why Little Women
continues to gather, as Anne Boyd Rioux and others have contended, a
predominantly female readership.
This episode features Stefanie Schäfer and her guest Amanda Halter discussing
their experiences in reading Louisa May Alcott's 1868/9 classic. We talk
about Jo's meanings as tomboy and archetype of white womenhood,
domesticity and nostalgia, and female authorship, touching also on Great
Gerwig's 2019 film version--and finally, we wonder why Little Women
continues to gather, as Anne Boyd Rioux and others have contended, a
predominantly female readership.
52 min