Ep. 73: FROM HELL (2001) - You Don't Know Jack!

Hey y'all! This week your favorite ghouls discussing From Hell! Topics of discussion include but are not limited to: sex-work in 1888, the REAL victims of Jack the Ripper, and why our obsession with Jack is problematic AF. --- Theme song by Lily LeBlanc: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: From Hell (2001) Dir. The Hughes Brothers From Hell (1999, Graphic Novel) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell WHY IT’S TIME TO STOP TALKING ABOUT JACK THE RIPPER by Ann Foster https://bookriot.com/2019/04/02/stop-talking-about-jack-the-ripper/amp/ ‘Jack the Ripper’ was a serial killer who disembowelled women – we need to stop celebrating that by Charlotte Mallinson https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/jack-the-ripper-serial-killer-disemboweled-women-stop-celebrating-a8094826.html THE FEMINIST JACK THE RIPPER TOUR https://lookup.london/live/feminist-jack-the-ripper-walk/ Jack the Ripper and the Myth of Male Violence by Judith R. Walkowitz https://www.jstor.org/stable/3177712?seq=1 Our Jack the Ripper Obsession Is Misogynist by Katie Engelhart https://newrepublic.com/article/119375/jack-ripper-versus-feminists The women killed by Jack the Ripper are finally having their stories told by Maya Crockett https://www.stylist.co.uk/books/the-five-untold-lives-women-killed-jack-the-ripper-hallie-rubenhold-book-tv-series/252545 FED UP WITH JACK THE RIPPER https://eastendwomensmuseum.org/blog/fed-up-with-jack-the-ripper Jack the Ripper: A Twenty-First Century Investigation? by Jennifer Pegg https://www.casebook.org/dissertations/pegg.html From Hell (2001) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell_(film) Roger Ebert’s Review of From Hell (2001) https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/from-hell-2001 (F)ailing women in psychiatry: lessons from a painful past by Andrea Tone, PhD https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5962395/ Lobotomy: Definition, Procedure & History By Tanya Lewis https://www.livescience.com/42199-lobotomy-definition.html What Does Misogyny Look Like? By Nina Rinata Aron https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/style/misogyny-women-history-photographs.html