Season 3, Episode 9: Deadly Joy and Victorian Marriage

Written By Jeanne Petrolle

Jeanne and Jennifer discuss Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour,” as it relates to the Bible, feminism, marriage, and other matters of life and death.

Works Cited and Consulted

Kate Chopin. “The Story of An Hour.”

Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the American South.

Claudia Setzer. “The Bible and the Legacy of First-Wave Feminism,” in Women’s Bible Commentary, edited by Carol Newsom, Sharon Ringe, and Jacqueline Lapsley.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The Woman’s Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective. Dover Books, 2003.

Jeanne Petrolle
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