A Jury of her peers

Duration: 30

Year Published: 1980

Creator: texture

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: The murder of a farmer is used as a backdrop for exploring the oppression of farm women in 1905 rural America. The farmer's wife is accused of murder and arrested. Two women, her neighbors, discover the incriminating clue the authorities are seeking and must decide whether or not to reveal it. , An adaptation of the short story written in 1917 by Pulitzer Prize winner Susan Glaspell. A farmer is found strangled in bed; his wife is accused; and the neighborhood women become a "jury of her peers" as they pack her belongings to take to her in jail.

Complete Record: The murder of a farmer is used as a backdrop for exploring the oppression of farm women in 1905 rural America. The farmer's wife is accused of murder and arrested. Two women, her neighbors, discover the incriminating clue the authorities are seeking and must decide whether or not to reveal it. , An adaptation of the short story written in 1917 by Pulitzer Prize winner Susan Glaspell. A farmer is found strangled in bed; his wife is accused; and the neighborhood women become a "jury of her peers" as they pack her belongings to take to her in jail.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.