with Stefanie Schaefer and Amanda Halter

This episode features Stefanie Schäfer and her guest Amanda Halter discussing

their experiences in reading Louisa May Alcott's 1868/9 classic. We talkabout Jo's meanings as tomboy and archetype of white womenhood, domesticity and nostalgia, and female authorship, touching also on GreatGerwig's 2019 film version--and finally, we wonder why Little Womencontinues to gather, as Anne Boyd Rioux and others have contended, apredominantly female readership.