Book Club Recording - Mad Wife with Kate Hamilton
If you missed the chat between Gemma Hartley and Kate Hamilton, you can catch the recording here! No book club in December, so I'll see you for book club next year!
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Our final book club of the year is one I’ll be thinking about for a long time. Kate Hamilton’s memoir Mad Wife challenged me to think deeply about the nature of coercion in heterosexual marriage, and the ways we contort ourselves to preserve marriages over the individuals inside that relationship. It also has me considering how we can distance ourselves from shame, even after our most harmful mistakes, which has been on my mind since reading
’s Shame on You (these two books make a great pairing, actually).Conversations about coercion and unwanted sex within relationships are ones that we don’t seem ready to have, even amidst the flurry of divorce memoirs out there. And furthermore, Kate’s story is a difficult, at times ethically complicated account, with far more honesty than we’re used to hearing in women’s stories. I love it all the more for exactly that reason. I’m so deeply grateful for her work, and the space it creates for more nuanced stories of women’s lives.
The recording below doesn’t feature video of Kate, as she writes under a pseudonym for the protection of herself and her family - an aspect of the writing she talks candidly about in the interview below:
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