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Episode 6 - The Body of Mary Boyd
Manage episode 359972316 series 3399927
To end our second season, Jane is revealing some of her exclusive research from the Gender, Migration & Madness Project: the mystery surrounding the death of Mary Boyd. Mary was an Irish Quebecer who found work as a young maid in a Toronto doctor’s household in 1868. But the circumstances surrounding her suicide only a few months later caused a major scandal in the city about sex, virginity, pregnancy, medical experimentation, mental illness, and the immense power men had over women’s bodies.
NB – This episode contains graphic discussions of mental illness, sexual assault, and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.
24 episodi
Manage episode 359972316 series 3399927
To end our second season, Jane is revealing some of her exclusive research from the Gender, Migration & Madness Project: the mystery surrounding the death of Mary Boyd. Mary was an Irish Quebecer who found work as a young maid in a Toronto doctor’s household in 1868. But the circumstances surrounding her suicide only a few months later caused a major scandal in the city about sex, virginity, pregnancy, medical experimentation, mental illness, and the immense power men had over women’s bodies.
NB – This episode contains graphic discussions of mental illness, sexual assault, and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.
24 episodi
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