Chapter 2: A Merry Christmas with Stephanie Redekop

Episode 2 March 11, 2022 00:46:54
Chapter 2: A Merry Christmas with Stephanie Redekop
Jo's Boys: A Little Women Podcast
Chapter 2: A Merry Christmas with Stephanie Redekop

Mar 11 2022 | 00:46:54

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Show Notes

This week, we're joined by special guest Stephanie Redekop, a PhD candidate in English literature at the University of Toronto. We dive into the second chapter of Little Women, "A Merry Christmas," which contains a scene so controversial, so rife with gender euphoric crossdressing, that the Christian Union saw fit to ban Little Women from all Sunday School libraries. You can visit Stephanie on Twitter at @stephired.

Our cover art is by Mattie Lubchansky. It interpolates the cover art for Bethany C. Morrow's book "So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix," with permission from Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. It also interpolates the cover art for Hena Khan's book "More to the Story," with permission from Simon & Schuster. Our theme music is Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major. This episode was edited by Peyton Thomas and transcribed by Lou Balikos. 

A transcript of this episode is available here.

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