Bodice Rippers
by Danielle & Kim
Welcome to Bodice Rippers, a podcast in which we lightheartedly dissect the bad (and often horribly hilarious) themes and tropes found within your average romance novel. Join us on this literary adventure as we unpack the romance genre's problematic baggage and dissect it under an intersectional, feminist lens.
Episodes
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Bodice Rippers Season 2: Episode 4
Here's chapter 4 of Season 2 of Bodice Rippers! Danielle & Kim rip into Muse in Lingerie by Penelope Sky. As in every chapter in this rubbish book, this one gives us PLENTY of fuel for a FIRE convo about toxic masculinity. Content warning for our listeners: this book contains a lot of...
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Bodice Rippers Season 2: Episode 3
Here's chapter 3 of Season 2 of Bodice Rippers! Danielle & Kim rip into Muse in Lingerie by Penelope Sky. This chapter gives us some good fuel for a discussion about sex abuse within the fashion industry. Content warning for our listeners: this book contains a lot of non-consensual activities...
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Bodice Rippers Season 2: Episode 2
Moving on through Season 2 of Bodice Rippers! Danielle & Kim rip into Muse in Lingerie by Penelope Sky. Hint - It's WHITE HOT TRASH! Content warning for our listeners: this book contains a lot of non-consensual activities including rape and human trafficking.
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Bodice Rippers Season 2: Episode 1
Welcome to Season 2 of Bodice Rippers! Danielle & Kim rip into Muse in Lingerie by Penelope Sky. Hint - It's WHITE HOT TRASH! Content warning for our listeners: this book contains a lot of non-consensual activities including rape and human trafficking.
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Bodice Rippers: Episode 17 - Happiest Season
MORE WINTER FESTIVAL FESTIVITIES as we endure the BRAND NEW Happiest Season - available on Hulu. We are looking at each episode through an intersectional, feminist lens and will be evaluating them to see if they pass the Bechdel test, have heteronormative roles, have diversity in representation,...
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Bodice Rippers: Episode 16 - Love Actually
MORE WINTER FESTIVAL FESTIVITIES as we endure the semi-recent holiday hit - Love, Actually. We are looking at each episode through an intersectional, feminist lens and will be evaluating them to see if they pass the Bechdel test, have heteronormative roles, have diversity in representation…
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Bodice Rippers: Episode 15 - Miracle on 34th Street
The holiday spirit continues as we journey on with our Christmas movie review episodes! This week we review Miracle on 34th Street, filmed in 1994. We are looking at each episode through an intersectional, feminist lens and will be evaluating them to see if they pass the Bechdel test, have...
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Bodice Rippers: Episode 14 - The Christmas Prince
We are jumping into the spirit of the holidays with a few Christmas movie review episodes! Starting out with "The Christmas Prince" - available on Netflix. We are looking at each episode through an intersectional, feminist lens and will be evaluating them to see if they pass the Bechdel test…
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Bodice Rippers: Episode 13 - The Final Climax
"Things were working between them. The marriage would be a success, he was certain of that. But there was still a part of her she held away from him, apart, protecting herself. What he wanted, more than anything, more than any present, was the sense that she trusted him. He wanted her to give…
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Bodice Rippers: Episode 12 - Your Hosts are Together at the Canadian/U.S. Border
Cyn watched as Rose caught sight of Chance, the way her facial expression and body language changed. And she knew, with a woman's intuition, that Rose Danvers was still in love with her husband, though she also sensed the woman would do nothing to threaten her marriage. Links about the Bechdel…
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Bodice Rippers: Episode 11 - fighting fatphobia
TW - We talk about specific weight and size numbers from 48 minutes to 51 minutes. We also talk specific sizes at 1:03:45 to 1:03:55 Cyn had described her figure problems to Abby - a great bustline and a growing tummy. Abby had sent her several dresses that accentuated the positive and concealed...
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Episode 10 - Giant eyes and giant boobs
"She was always up to something and had recently told him she was in the processes of renovating the family room at the back of the ranch house. He'd told her not to exhaust herself, that her main job was to simply settle in and get used to ranche life and take care of herself and her pregnancy....
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Bodice Rippers: Episode 9 - sex toys & tools & they're at the ranch
Cyn stared at herself in the mirror and decided that tonight was going to be the night. It wasn't fair to chance, to make him wait for what any other husband would enjoy on a regular basis. Part of making their house a home included both emotional and sexual bonding. If she wasn't the most…
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Bodice Rippers Episode 8: #metoo & breeding cows vs. breeding women
He took another sip of Luca's excellent coffee. It was probably Italian. "Luca, we wouldn't get half the results I expect for the future if we didn't have the means to simply strap that little gal in." Luca's coffee cup stopped its ascent to his mouth. Chance, so engrossed in thinking about how…
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Bodice Rippers: Episode 7 Sore Muscles, marinating and more Chance than you ever wanted
"She drifted awake in his arms, and for one terrible moment felt totally out of control. His skin touched hers the length of their bodies beneath the coolness of the sheets, and she derived a certain comfort from that sensation. She trusted him to take care of her, and that in itself was nothing...
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Bodice Rippers: Episode 6 - After-effects of a forced marriage
Teaser: "You'll have to tell her you'll be going back to the ranch with me." She nodded her head. "Forever, Cyn. Not just until the baby's born. None of that for us." He could tell she was struggling with this. Her wedding vows, her commitment, hadn't been made at that little Vegas chapel, but...
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Bodice Rippers: Episode 5 - Brain damaging boners
"The room was dark, she didn't know where she was, and this was a real man, no dream, never a dream. He was moving against her, pushing powerfully inside her body with a driving, relentless rhythm. And though her mind almost refused to accept what was happening to her, her body responded…
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Bodice Rippers: Episode 4
Teaser reading: He rolled over onto his stomach and buried his face in the pillow, wanting to shut out the world and shut off his emotions. He had so many mixed feelings about what he'd done. What they'd done. This Luca was a fool to let a woman like Pepper get away from him. Most men dreamed of...
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Bodice Rippers: Episode 2 - Cinnamon & Cayenne Pepper Get Spicy
Teaser for this week: "Chance Devereux had blown into town on a mission. He had some bull semen to buy in the next week, but in the meantime, finding himself stranded in Las Vegas waiting for the breeder was not the most painful of life's situations. He'd played the slots and won, tried his hand…
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Bodice Rippers: Episode 1 - Foreplay
In this pilot episode of Bodice Rippers, hosts Kim and Danielle dive into their own backgrounds and experiences with sexual education while growing up, romance in the media and how it's consumed in American culture. Romance Writers of America Website Baby by Chance on Amazon Bustle Article about...
About this show
Welcome to Bodice Rippers, a podcast in which we lightheartedly dissect the bad (and often horribly hilarious) themes and tropes found within your average romance novel. Join us on this literary adventure as we unpack the romance genre's problematic baggage and dissect it under an intersectional, feminist lens.
Hosted by
Danielle & Kim