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Bad Housekeeping
This is Bad Housekeeping: the podcast that explores the life and work of Shirley Jackson, master of mid-century domestic horror. Join us, Dr. Kasia Van Schaik and Miriam Richer, as we investigate stories of unsettled and unsettling domesticity. Each episode will dip into Shirley Jackson’s archive to parse what we’re calling “Bad Housekeeping”: the feminist impulse to question the happy housewife, abandon the dishes in the sink, and ask: what if women stopped trying to keep it all together? What…
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Bad HousekeepingIntroducing: Bad Housekeeping
This podcast theorizes bad housekeeping as a form of feminist refusal: an impulse to question the happy housewife, abandon the dishes in the sink, and seek out…