Show Notes
What if Pride & Prejudice was a story about the "confused ramblings of a pissed 30-something"? What if there were two Mr Wickhams and Mr Darcy was a renowned human rights lawyer? Stefanie and Melinda discuss the cultural fixation on women's bodies from a time when society was obsessed with women dying alone and being found half eaten by an Alsatian through the lens of Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding and the companion movie of the same name, directed by Sharon Maguire.
Links & Mentions
The original meaning of the term "slut" can be found here [https://www.etymonline.com/word/slut].
If the Bridget Jones musical has been added to your mental list of Roman Empires as well, here is the 2014 update on why Lily Allen left the project [https://www.whatsonstage.com/news/lily-allen-dropped-from-bridget-jones-musical_35228/], and here is a 2024 (!) update on the musical that we found after we recorded [https://www.whatsonstage.com/news/lily-allen-comments-on-bridget-jones-musical_1567163/].
Learn about the "real" Mark Darcy, human rights lawyer, here [https://www.theguardian.com/film/interview/interviewpages/0,6737,471825,00.html].
You can read Sophie Vershbow's article Did Bridget Jones Make Us Hate Our Bodies? here on Vogue [https://www.vogue.com/article/bridget-jones-weight-obsession]. While Alex Light's article Growing Up On Bridget Jones Damaged My Body Confidence is here on Grazia UK [https://graziadaily.co.uk/life/in-the-news/bridget-jones-never-overweight-diet-culture/].
If you want to listen to a very entertaining if a little demoralising podcast episode on why the BMI is garbage, you can find it over on pod fave Maintenance Phase's feed here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-body-mass-index/id1535408667?i=1000530850955].
If you want to watch Bridget interview Colin Firth, you'll find it here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjyoWj1GICo].
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