Book 7, Ep. 3 | Motherhood with Erin Wunker
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
We continue our journey through Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows with another special guest, Erin Wunker! Erin is a settler scholar and an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova Scotia. She is the author of Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life and the forthcoming Routledge Introduction to 20th and 21st Century Canadian Poetry. She join us for this episode to talk about mothers in the Harry Potter series! We discuss how motherhood has been constructed over the last few centuries and what we can learn from the characterization of Petunia Dursley, Molly Weasley, and Lily Potter. We also think through subversive modes of motherhood and representations of care throughout the book, looking at Hagrid in particular.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Witch Please, a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm Marcel Cosmon, and I'm Hannah McGregor, and Marcel, guess what day it is? |
| 0:19.7 | What is it? |
| 0:20.7 | I'm going to tell you in the sorting chat. |
| 0:22.5 | Oh, okay, okay. |
| 0:23.5 | Hannah, what day is it? |
| 0:27.0 | I mean, the day that this episode is coming out is September 20th, and that day is the |
| 0:32.0 | day of my book release. |
| 0:33.9 | That's so exciting! |
| 0:34.9 | You must be so excited! |
| 0:37.1 | I'm very excited. |
| 0:38.1 | My book, for those who have missed it, somehow, is called a sentimental education. |
| 0:43.3 | It is available in every book place, all the book places, 100% of the book places. |
| 0:48.8 | A lot of our international listeners have been asking how to get it, and I will tell you |
| 0:54.1 | it is available on Amazon. |
| 0:56.0 | I won't hold it against you if that is how you acquire books, but also you can buy it |
| 1:01.0 | online directly from the publisher, which is Wilford Laurier University Press, and also, |
| 1:07.2 | if you've got a local bookstore you really like, you can also just go in and ask them to |
| 1:11.0 | order it, because Wilford Laurier University Press does have international distribution. |
| 1:16.4 | So you can get it in a variety of different ways, also we're releasing an audiobook that |
| 1:22.5 | I read and produced myself. |
| 1:24.9 | Oh my goodness. |
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