In this episode we don our finest (rented) Victorian frocks (that you can see if you check out our TikTok) and dive into the 19th century feminist analysis of Leviticus. It's pretty much the how to live rules & regulations section of the bible and you will be amazed and depressed at how these thousand(s) of years old ideas are still running the show. These Woman's Bible gals tried to tell us 130 years ago. We shall finish their work!

Here's more info on some of the topics we discuss:

Witch Trials

https://www.nesl.edu/blog/detail/a-true-legal-horror-story-the-laws-leading-to-the-salem-witch-trials

Lecky’s History of Rationalism

https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/lecky-history-of-the-rise-and-influence-of-the-spirit-of-rationalism-in-europe-vol-1

Pregnancy on TV

I Love Lucy - first pregnancy on TV 1952 - but they couldn’t say pregnant - episode was titled “Lucy Is Enceinte,” using the French word for “pregnant”.

https://www.remindmagazine.com/article/8631/i-love-lucy-first-tv-pregnancy-lucy-is-enceinte-1952/

and

https://www.avclub.com/more-than-60-years-ago-a-pregnant-lucille-ball-couldn-1798239435

The word "pregnant" is believed to be used first on The Dick Van Dyke Show. In "Never Name a Duck," written by Carl Reiner (who also created the series), an eccentric character says of her cat, "She thinks she's pregnant." The episode first aired on September 26, 1962. https://startrekfactcheck.blogspot.com/2017/01/was-star-trek-first-show-to-say.html

Climate change has been around y’all

How 19th Century Scientists Predicted Global Warming

https://daily.jstor.org/how-19th-century-scientists-predicted-global-warming/

And

Oct. 15, 1902: Chemist Warns Burning Coal May Lead to Boiling Earth

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/article-warns-of-burning-coal/

Philadelphia Bible Riots of 1844

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If you've ever wondered why women are terrified of being seen as selfish or why others judge women by how much they do for other people, you need not look any further than everyone's favorite two thousand year old book.

“We are so accustomed to the assumption that men alone form a nation, that we forget to resent texts such as these.” - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Oh we won't forget Elizabeth. Especially not after reading the chapter in The Woman's Bible on Exodus . This one has it all -- birth, Pharaoh bullies, thievery, violence, circumcision, escape, laws, and even a mention of the Boston Tea Party.

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Extra Reading

The Woman's Bible Exodus https://sacred-texts.com/wmn/wb/wb15.htm

"How the midwives Shiphrah and Puah mock the violence of empire"
https://www.christiancentury.org/article/critical-essay/how-midwives-shiphrah-and-puah-mock-violence-empire

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The knowledge quest continues. Our 19th century writer pals have yet to find a single place in Genesis where anyone anywhere says women are inferior and subordinate to men. We crack open the rest of the chapter and discuss the sass attacks our Victorian luminaries launched on the wiley translators over things like floods and pregnancy.

Additional info about The Woman's Bible contributors mentioned in this episode:

Clara Bewick Colby (CBC)

Bio: https://womeninwisconsin.org/profile/clara-bewick-colby/

She was also the first female valedictorian of the University of Wisconsin: https://news.wisc.edu/uw-women-at-150-first-female-valedictorian-became-renowned-suffragist/

Lillie Devereux Blake (LDB) pen name, Tiger Lily (Tiger Lily!!!!!)

Bio: https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/directory/lillie-devereux-blake/

Quick fact check: NO. Noah's arc has not been found. I mean, come on. Has Elizabeth taught us nothing?

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Ok now we are getting into it with Genesis! Listen in on our reaction to reading The Woman's Bible take on the start of everything. The beginning of earth, animals, humans, and of course, sin. Stanton and her pals make some convincing points about reading Eve as the complex main character. They highlight where the wiley english interpreters took liberties and tell us more about the gorgeous allegories hidden in the classic creationist tale of how it all started. Plus other stuff that still affects us to this very day.

Did you know woman is the ancient form of womb-man? Let that sink in.

Pronunciation Attempt Party (aka: maybe you should see these words in print)

Elohistic

Iahoistic

Matriarchate

Amphiarchate

Adam Clarke - 19th century biblical scholar that Stanton mentions throughout The Woman's Bible. https://ccel.org/ccel/clarke

Charles Kingsley - Founding member of the Christian Socialist movement https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Kingsley

Lillie Devereux Blake - LDB! https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2013/05/lillie-devereux-blake.html

Explicit content in this ep: Some cuss words

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It's our intro episode! The one where we tell you why you should be jazzed about revisiting Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible with us. Even if you aren't particularly religious, your life is still impacted by the morality and hierarchy dictated in the Bible. 130 years ago, Stanton and some of her scholarly friends took a look at how the gentleman who translated the bible may have taken a few liberties.

Join us - Sara Kaye and Joanna, two reunited childhood friends who are curious about all the fuss - as we break down, admire, and yeah, ok, sometimes muck up a piece of classic feminist literature that has eerie relevance today.

More information about topics mentioned in this episode:

The Woman's Bible book

Free from the Gutenberg Project: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9880

At the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/mcc.049/

Hard copies available at most bookstores - SK got a used copy from abebooks

Audiobook version available on audible, or check out your library's electronic lending program - Libby has it.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“All Men and Women Are Created Equal:” The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

ECS Biography page

The Solitude of Self speech

Lucretia Mott (passed away at 87, not 99 or whatever we said in the show)

Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society (PFASS)

Gerrit Smith

Suffrage movement

Nation Woman Suffrage Association

For Stanton, All Women Were Not Created Equal

Frederick Douglass

Frances EW Harper - writer, poet, activist, speaker

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