Little Women

<p>This week we're traveling back to 19th century America with Greta Gerwig's Little Women! Join us as we learn more about selling hair, scarlet fever, women catching fire, women's colleges, and more!</p> <p>Sources:</p> <p>Hair Selling:<br /> Elisabeth G. Gitter, "The Power of Women's Hair in the Victorian Imagination," PMLA 99, 5 (1984)<br /> JM Allen, "Monster Topknots and Balloon Chignons: Purity and Contamination in the False Hair Trade," University of Salford, 2018: https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/44308/3/Monster%20top%20knots.pdf<br /> "The Trade in Human Hair," March 1869, available at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-trade-in-human-hair/<br /> Emma Tarlo, "The Secret History of Buying and Selling Hair," Smithsonian, available at <a href= "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/secret-history-buying-and-selling-hair-180961080/"> https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/secret-history-buying-and-selling-hair-180961080/</a></p> <p>Women's Colleges:<br /> Roberta Wein, "Women's Colleges and Domesticity, 1875-1918," History of Educatio Quarterly 14, 1 (1974)<br /> "First Students Arrive at Mt. Holyoke Seminary," MassMoments, available at https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/first-students-arrive-at-mt-holyoke-seminary.html<br /> Erich M. Studer-Ellis, "Springboard to Mortarboard: Women's College Foundings in New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania," Social Forces 73, 3 (1995)</p> <p>Background:</p> <p>RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/little_women_2019<br /> A.O. Scott, "'Little Women' Review: This Movie is Big" New York Times; https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/movies/little-women-review.html<br /> "Notes on a Scene" Vanity Fair YouTube https://youtu.be/Li9ff4rQlck<br /> Wiki: <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Women_(2019_film)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Women_(2019_film)</a></p> <p>Women Catching Fire:</p> <p>Alison Matthews David, "Blazing Ballet Girls and Flannelette Shrouds: Fabric, Fire, and Fear in the Long Nineteenth Century," TEXTILE, 14, no.2 (