In this week's episode, we finish our discussion of Possession. We get into wedding rings, straw feminism, Boston Marriages, and our grades of the history and the movie. 

Sources:

Straw Feminists:

Kate Beaton, "Straw Feminists" Hark! A Vagrant. Available at http://www.harkavagrant.com/?id=341

Wedding Rings:

Zoe Gahan, "Band for Life: The History of Wedding Rings," Vanity Fair. Available at https://www.vanityfair.com/london/2018/07/band-for-life-the-history-of-wedding-rings

Margaret F. Brinig, "Rings and Promises," Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 6, 1 (Spring 1990) 203-215.

Justin Parkinson, "Why is Cecil Rhodes Such a Controversial Figure?" BBC News. Available at https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32131829

Richard Dowden, "Apartheid: Made in Britain," The Independent. Available at https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/apartheid-made-in-britain-richard-dowden-explains-how-churchill-rhodes-and-smuts-caused-black-south-1370856.html

Human Rights Watch Statement on the Kimberley Process: https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/06/06/human-rights-watch-statement-kimberley-process#

John Plotz, Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Boston Marriages:

Radclyffe Hall, The Guardian, Available at https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/10/it-has-made-me-want-to-live-public-support-for-lesbian-novelist-radclyffe-hall-over-banned-book-revealed

Martha Gever, Entertaining Lesbians: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Self-Invention (Psychology Press, 2003)

Emily Hamer, Britannia's Glory: A History of Twentieth Century Lesbians (Bloomsbury, 1996)

George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 (Basic Books, 1995)

Jane Addams, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, available at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/addams-jane/

Jane Addams, WBEZ, available at https://www.wbez.org/stories/should-we-use-the-l-word-for-jane-addams/2157704a-3738-4b8f-a879-b5aed91bb8f8

Jane Addams, National Women's History Museum. Available at https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/jane-addams