The Bad Books Book Club

Ep #3 | The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

Episode notes: * transcript [https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-3-housemaid-148338632] * buy [https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-housemaid-freida-mcfadden/84d540a6819fa062]The Housemaid [https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-housemaid-freida-mcfadden/84d540a6819fa062] here! [https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-housemaid-freida-mcfadden/84d540a6819fa062] * Freida McFadden's very genre-appropriate website [https://www.freidamcfadden.com] * The Pleasure of the Text [https://web.english.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Barthes_Pleasure_of_the_Text.pdf] by Roland Barthes [https://web.english.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Barthes_Pleasure_of_the_Text.pdf] (we talk in greater detail about this in a future episode) * The Housemaid [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48CtX6OgU3s] film trailer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48CtX6OgU3s] * "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman [https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1952/pg1952-images.html] * "The Rest Cure Revisited" by Diana Martin, M.D. (The American Journal of Psychiatry Online) [https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.5.737] * "Meet the Boston Brain Doctor Who Lives a Double Life as a Best-Selling Author" by Will Pavia ( [https://www.namd.org/journal-of-medicine/3362-meet-the-boston-brain-doctor-who-lives-a-double-life-as-a-best-selling-author.html]NAMD.org [https://NAMD.org]) [https://www.namd.org/journal-of-medicine/3362-meet-the-boston-brain-doctor-who-lives-a-double-life-as-a-best-selling-author.html] * WARNING!!!! "The Race Traits and Tendencies..." by Frederick L. Hoffman (May 1896) [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2560438?seq=1] (this is race science in its original eugenicist 19th century context, offered in the context of our discussion and in conversation with the academic works below) * "Harvard's Eugenics Era" by Adam Cohen ( [https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2016/02/harvards-eugenics-era]Harvard Magazine [https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2016/02/harvards-eugenics-era], March-April 2016) [https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2016/02/harvards-eugenics-era] * "A Troublesome Recurrence: Racialized Realities and Racist Reasoning Today" by Lawrence D. Bobo ( [https://dash.harvard.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/7312037d-933b-6bd4-e053-0100007fdf3b/content]Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race [https://dash.harvard.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/7312037d-933b-6bd4-e053-0100007fdf3b/content] through Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard) [https://dash.harvard.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/7312037d-933b-6bd4-e053-0100007fdf3b/content] * Queen Camilla (!) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Camilla] * Upstairs Downstairs [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstairs%2C_Downstairs_(1971_TV_series)] (1971) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstairs%2C_Downstairs_(1971_TV_series)] * Federal Bureau of Prison Statistics (updated weekly) [https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_race.jsp] * Pew Research Center Fact Sheet About the US Black Population (January 2025) [https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/fact-sheet/facts-about-the-us-black-population/] * "Race, History, and Immigration Crimes" by Eric S. Fish ( [https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/sites/ilr.law.uiowa.edu/files/2022-11/Race%2C%20History%2C%20and%20Immigration%20Crimes.pdf]Iowa Law Review [https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/sites/ilr.law.uiowa.edu/files/2022-11/Race%2C%20History%2C%20and%20Immigration%20Crimes.pdf], March 2022) [https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/sites/ilr.law.uiowa.edu/files/2022-11/Race%2C%20History%2C%20and%20Immigration%20Crimes.pdf] * "Craniums, Criminals, and the 'Cursed Race': Italian Anthropology in American Racial Thought, 1861-1924" by Peter D'Agostino ( [https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3879449.pdf]Comparative Studies in Society and History [https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3879449.pdf], April 2002) [https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3879449.pdf] * Humbert Humbert [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita] * Emma [https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/158]by Jane Austen [https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/158] * "Interpreting Gender: Refrigerator Mothers" by Jordynn Jack (from [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt7zw5k5.5]Autism and Gender: From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer Geeks, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt7zw5k5.5]2014) [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt7zw5k5.5] * "The WASPs Are Gone" by Yascha Mounk ( [https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-wasps-are-gone]Persuasion [https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-wasps-are-gone], March 2025) [https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-wasps-are-gone] * "The Infanticidal Attachment" by Brett Kahr ( [http://replacementchildforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Brett-Kahr-New-Directions-in-Relational-Psychoanalysis-and-Psychotherapy-2007.pdf]Attachment: New Directions in Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy [http://replacementchildforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Brett-Kahr-New-Directions-in-Relational-Psychoanalysis-and-Psychotherapy-2007.pdf], 2007) [http://replacementchildforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Brett-Kahr-New-Directions-in-Relational-Psychoanalysis-and-Psychotherapy-2007.pdf] * the Strange Situation [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_situation] * Where you can find us: Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheBadBooksBookClub], Twitter [https://x.com/thebadbooksclub], Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bad-books-book-club/id1861625669], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/5qxFm2wlkSTXqnRM3meUJg], and thebadbooksbookclub at gmail dot com! * Read along with us for next time...The Free People's Village by Sim Kern! [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a033e603-c581-4e5f-a78d-8068a7a96c3f]

15 jan 2026 - 1 h 11 min