Chapter 8: Jo Meets Apollyon with Andi Schwartz

Episode 8 May 14, 2022 00:42:57
Chapter 8: Jo Meets Apollyon with Andi Schwartz
Jo's Boys: A Little Women Podcast
Chapter 8: Jo Meets Apollyon with Andi Schwartz

May 14 2022 | 00:42:57

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Show Notes

This week, we're joined by special guest Andi Schwartz. Dr. Schwartz is a Visiting Scholar at York University's School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. Her dissertation was an online ethnography of femme internet culture, and her other research interests include femme subjectivities and critical femininities. We dive into the eighth chapter of Little Women, "Jo Meets Apollyon," where Amy lights Jo's manuscript on fire then pays for her misdeed by falling through the ice of the local river-slash-pond situation. Fittingly, Andi and I talk a lot about Jenny Fran Davis's essay "High Femme Camp Antics," which you can read here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/high-femme-camp-antics/. You can visit Andi online at andischwartzwrites.com and on Instagram and Twitter at @acafemmeic.

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.

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