A Jury of Her Peers — Susan Glaspell

Two women stand in a farmhouse kitchen while the men upstairs search for a motive for murder. The men never search the kitchen properly — it is only a woman's room. Susan Glaspell's “A Jury of Her Peers” puts a question straight in front of you: if the formal jury that will try Minnie Wright is made entirely of men, and the evidence that actually explains what happened is read only by women, whose verdict is the real one?

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The story stages an unofficial trial inside the official one: two farm wives read the true story of a marriage from kitchen evidence the male investigators dismiss as trivial, and then decide, on their own authority, not to hand it over.

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