Possession, Part II

<p>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. </p> <p>Sources:</p> <p>Straw Feminists:</p> <p>Kate Beaton, "Straw Feminists" Hark! A Vagrant. Available at <a href= "http://www.harkavagrant.com/?id=341">http://www.harkavagrant.com/?id=341</a></p> <p>Wedding Rings:</p> <p>Zoe Gahan, "Band for Life: The History of Wedding Rings," Vanity Fair. Available at <a href= "https://www.vanityfair.com/london/2018/07/band-for-life-the-history-of-wedding-rings"> https://www.vanityfair.com/london/2018/07/band-for-life-the-history-of-wedding-rings</a></p> <p>Margaret F. Brinig, "Rings and Promises," Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 6, 1 (Spring 1990) 203-215.</p> <p>Justin Parkinson, "Why is Cecil Rhodes Such a Controversial Figure?" BBC News. Available at <a href= "https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32131829">https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32131829</a></p> <p>Richard Dowden, "Apartheid: Made in Britain," The Independent. Available at <a href= "https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/apartheid-made-in-britain-richard-dowden-explains-how-churchill-rhodes-and-smuts-caused-black-south-1370856.html"> https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/apartheid-made-in-britain-richard-dowden-explains-how-churchill-rhodes-and-smuts-caused-black-south-1370856.html</a></p> <p>Human Rights Watch Statement on the Kimberley Process: <a href= "https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/06/06/human-rights-watch-statement-kimberley-process"> https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/06/06/human-rights-watch-statement-kimberley-process#</a></p> <p>John Plotz, Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move. Princeton: Princeton University Press.</p> <p>Boston Marriages:</p> <p>Radclyffe Hall, The Guardian, Available at <a href= "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"> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/10/it-has-made-me-want-to-