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buy The Housemaid here!
Freida McFadden's very genre-appropriate website
The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes (we talk in greater detail about this in a future episode)
The Housemaid film trailer
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"The Rest Cure Revisited" by Diana Martin, M.D. (The American Journal of Psychiatry Online)
"Meet the Boston Brain Doctor Who Lives a Double Life as a Best-Selling Author" by Will Pavia (NAMD.org)
WARNING!!!! "The Race Traits and Tendencies..." by Frederick L. Hoffman (May 1896) (this is race science in its original eugenicist 19th century context, offered in the context of our discussion and in conversation with the academic works below)
"Harvard's Eugenics Era" by Adam Cohen (Harvard Magazine, March-April 2016)
"A Troublesome Recurrence: Racialized Realities and Racist Reasoning Today" by Lawrence D. Bobo (Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race through Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard)
Queen Camilla (!)
Upstairs Downstairs (1971)
Federal Bureau of Prison Statistics (updated weekly)
Pew Research Center Fact Sheet About the US Black Population (January 2025)
"Race, History, and Immigration Crimes" by Eric S. Fish (Iowa Law Review, March 2022)
"Craniums, Criminals, and the 'Cursed Race': Italian Anthropology in American Racial Thought, 1861-1924" by Peter D'Agostino (Comparative Studies in Society and History, April 2002)
Humbert Humbert
Emma by Jane Austen
"Interpreting Gender: Refrigerator Mothers" by Jordynn Jack (from Autism and Gender: From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer Geeks, 2014)
"The WASPs Are Gone" by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, March 2025)
"The Infanticidal Attachment" by Brett Kahr (Attachment: New Directions in Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, 2007)
the Strange Situation
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Read along with us for next time...The Free People's Village by Sim Kern!
