“Un Jurado de iguales” | Susan Glaspell & Sara Morante | Avenauta, Spain | 96pp Paperback | 13 x 22 cm
Susan Glaspell’s haunting tale was largely unrecognized at the time of its publication in 1917, as many knew Glaspell primarily from her career as a playwright. However, feminists in the 1970s revived Glaspell’s tale and applauded her ground-breaking exploration of gender inequalities affecting women’s lives in both the public and private spheres. Set in Iowa, it tells the story of a day in the life of a woman named Martha Hale. However, it is not just any day, as on that particular day, Mrs. Hale accompanies her husband and the sheriff to investigate the home of Minnie Wright, a woman accused of murdering her cruel husband. Where men only see “insignificant” objects and details, the protagonists see clues that have gone unnoticed by them and that will make them solve the motive and cause of the “urder. Adapted from his 1916 play Trifles, Glaspell’s A Jury of Her Peers explores similar themes: the male subjugation of women, sexism in the home and workplace, and the ways in which the law fails to protect women from violence. (The book includes the text of the theatre play “Trifles”, which the story is based on)
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