Femmes Macabres
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Femmes MacabresMay 22, 2020
28: Two Rings to Rule None at All (Part 2)
In part two of Steph and Erin's series on weddings, the girls chat about the wedding industry in general, because what is more macabre than diet culture and capitalism?
Episode Resources
- CURRIE, DAWN H. “‘Here Comes the Bride’ : The Making of a ‘Modern Traditional’ Wedding in Western Culture.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies, vol. 24, no. 3, 1993, pp. 403–21. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41602301.
- Fetner, Tina, and Melanie Heath. “Do Same-Sex and Straight Weddings Aspire to the Fairytale? Women’s Conformity and Resistance to Traditional Weddings.” Sociological Perspectives, vol. 59, no. 4, 2016, pp. 721–42. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26340178.
- Howard, Vicki. “A ‘Real Man’s Ring’: Gender and the Invention of Tradition.” Journal of Social History, vol. 36, no. 4, 2003, pp. 837–56. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3790353.
27: Two Rings to Rule None at All (Part 1)
Join Steph and Erin as they delve into the often curious history of wedding and engagement rings in the early twentieth century in the first of TWO BRAND NEW EPISODES!
Episode Resources
- CURRIE, DAWN H. “‘Here Comes the Bride’ : The Making of a ‘Modern Traditional’ Wedding in Western Culture.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies, vol. 24, no. 3, 1993, pp. 403–21. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41602301.
- Fetner, Tina, and Melanie Heath. “Do Same-Sex and Straight Weddings Aspire to the Fairytale? Women’s Conformity and Resistance to Traditional Weddings.” Sociological Perspectives, vol. 59, no. 4, 2016, pp. 721–42. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26340178.
- Howard, Vicki. “A ‘Real Man’s Ring’: Gender and the Invention of Tradition.” Journal of Social History, vol. 36, no. 4, 2003, pp. 837–56. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3790353.
Episode 26: The Case of the Cottingley Fairies
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MUSIC
Dark Hallway by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Allegro by Emmit Fenn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
SOURCES
Branagan, Mark, and Stephen Jones. “A Professor Fell for a Hoax about Fairies - and His Life Was Shattered.” Irish Mirror, 15 Jan. 2017, www.irishmirror.ie/news/weird-news/curse-cottingley-fairies-how-professors-9626260.
“Cottingley Fairies Fake Photos to Go under the Hammer.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 31 Mar. 2019, www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/31/cottingley-fairies-fake-photos-go-under-the-hammer.
Forsberg, Laura. “Nature's Invisibilia: The Victorian Microscope and the Miniature Fairy.” Victorian Studies, vol. 57, no. 4, 2015, pp. 638–666. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/victorianstudies.57.4.03. Accessed 14 Apr. 2021.
Hewitt, Alden. “The Fairy Lore of the Elizabethans.” The Elementary English Review, vol. 11, no. 1, 1934, pp. 1–29. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41380900. Accessed 14 Apr. 2021.
Maher, FR. The Secret of the Cottingley Fairies. Amazon Publishing, 2017.
Saunders, Michèle J. “A Small Trip Through Tooth Lore, or Where Did the Tooth Fairy Come From?” Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging, vol. 40, no. 3, 2016, pp. 16–18. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26556210. Accessed 14 Apr. 2021.
Episode 25: The Radium Dial Painters: Society of the Living Dead
Episode 24: A Victorian Death Extravaganza: Death & Mourning in the 19th Century
Inspired by the research Steph did for her Halloween story, this week's episode of Femmes Macabres finds Steph and Erin reading through Victorian era newspapers for strange ways people died during the time period. They also discuss the 19th century outlook on death and mourning and compare it to the death positive movement currently taking the world by storm thanks to organisations like the Order of the Good Death.
Coming up next week on Femmes Macabres: how the radium girls inspired workplace health and safety reform.
Music:
Dark Hallway by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/?keywords=Hallway&Search=Search Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Sources:
Bradford, Adam. “Inspiring Death: Poe's Poetic Aesthetics, ‘Annabel Lee," and the Communities of Mourning in Nineteenth-Century America.” The Edgar Allan Poe Review, vol. 12, no. 1, 2011, pp. 72–100. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41506434.
https://thebabydied.blogspot.com/
http://victorian-era.org/victorian-era-mourning-period.html
https://www.history.co.uk/history-of-death/victorians-and-the-art-of-dying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8DxI8Pn1Uw
https://www.tchevalier.com/fallingangels/bckgrnd/mourning/
Episode 23: How NOT to Ring in the New Year: The Egans' Murders of 1964
Episode 21: Ask a Vampire
This week, we learn all about vampires and how Steph convinced her students she is one. We had SO much fun with this episode- thank you for listening!
Sources
Backstein, Karen. “(Un)Safe Sex: Romancing the Vampire.” Cinéaste, vol. 35, no. 1, 2009, pp. 38–41. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41690852. Accessed 24 Nov. 2020.
https://www.livescience.com/40843-real-dracula-vlad-the-impaler.html
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Episode 20: The Curse of Clophill Church
In this week’s episode, Erin and Steph discuss the storied history of England’s “Black Magic Church.” Go say hi to the inspiration for this episode, Liliana, on instagram, @adaughterofmoths!
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Sources: https://www.spookyisles.com/the-curse-of-clophill-church/
https://www.spookyisles.com/haunted-clophill-church/
https://clophillhistory.mooncarrot.org.uk/OldChurchPost1848.php
https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/4301341
https://mjwayland.com/black-alchemist-1963/
archive@bedford.gov.uk
ARCHIVAL REFERENCEThe Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 284
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
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Episode 19: Super Spooky Halloween Special
Episode 18: The Exorcist and The Murderer
Episode 17: The Haunting of Shirley Jackson
Episode 16: Nobody Puts Baby in the Butterbox
Episode 15: Alone in the Grotto: The Tragic Death of Ann Lovett
Episode 14: Before Stonewall: The Compton Cafeteria Riots of 1966
Episode 13: Rebel With a Cause: The Life and Afterlife of James Dean
Episode 12: James Dean and the Legend of the Cursed Porsche
Episode 11: Mary Toft: Mother of Rabbits
Episode 10: A Period Piece, Part 2: Menstrual Taboos and Myths
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Episode 6: The Rendlesham Forest Incident
Episode 5: The ‘Doctor’ who put the ‘Die’ in Diet & other people you shouldn't trust
Episode 4: Canada’s “Little Women:” The Exploitation of the Dionne Quints
Episode 3: Death by Misadventure
Episode 2: Let's Get Physic(al) Gardening!
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Welcome to Femmes Macabres, a podcast about life's mysteries, oddities and of course, the macabre. Hosted by Stephanie Meloche and Erin Vance.