Charlotte Gordon
Bio:
Charlotte Gordon is an American writer and distinguished professor of humanities at Endicott College. Gordon is a Mary Shelley expert and the author of Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley. She has written the introduction for the Penguin Books bicentennial publication of Mary Shelley's original 1818 text of Frankenstein.
Robin explores the original meaning and reasons for what has become another consumer holiday: Mother's Day. Special Guest: Charlotte Gordon, author of Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley.
Robin on the hidden history of the Second Amendment, Hope Hicks, sexism at the BBC, Boko Haram's return, and China's Winnie the Pooh. Guests: Charlotte Gordon on the feminist origins of "Frankenstein"; Masih Alinejad on women's uprising in Iran.
