The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

By: Heather Rose Jones
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  • A show about queer women in history and historic literature, plus coverage of the field of sapphic historical fiction. Content note: May include discussions of sex within an academic context.
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  • Lesbians and the Law - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 305

    Lesbians and the Law - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 305
    Jan 20 2025
    Lesbians and the Law The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 305 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about: Evidence for how romantic and sexual relations between women were treated in legal systems in western cultureReferencesBenbow, R. Mark and Alasdair D. K. Hawkyard. 1994. “Legal Records of Cross-dressing” in Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages, ed. Michael Shapiro, Ann Arbor. pp.225-34.Benkov, Edith. “The Erased Lesbian: Sodomy and the Legal Tradition in Medieval Europe” in Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages. ed. by Francesca Canadé Sautman & Pamela Sheingorn. Palgrave, New York, 2001.Boehringer, Sandra (trans. Anna Preger). 2021. Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-367-74476-2Borris, Kenneth (ed). 2004. Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance: A Sourcebook of Texts, 1470-1650. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-1-138-87953-9Brown, Kathleen. 1995. “’Changed...into the Fashion of a Man’: The Politics of Sexual Difference in a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Settlement” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:2 pp.171-193.Burshatin, Israel. “Elena Alias Eleno: Genders, Sexualities, and ‘Race’ in the Mirror of Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Spain” in Ramet, Sabrina Petra (ed). 1996. Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives. Routledge, London. ISBN 0-415-11483-7Crane, Susan. 1996. “Clothing and Gender Definition: Joan of Arc,” in Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 26:2 : 297-320.Crawford, Patricia & Sara Mendelson. 1995. "Sexual Identities in Early Modern England: The Marriage of Two Women in 1680" in Gender and History vol 7, no 3: 362-377.Cressy, David. 1996. “Gender Trouble and Cross-Dressing in Early Modern England” in Journal of British Studies 35/4: 438-465.Crompton, Louis. 1985. “The Myth of Lesbian Impunity: Capital Laws from 1270 to 1791” in Licata, Salvatore J. & Robert P. Petersen (eds). The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 0-918393-11-6 (Also published as Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 6, numbers 1/2, Fall/Winter 1980.)Dekker, Rudolf M. and van de Pol, Lotte C. 1989. The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe. Macmillan, London. ISBN 0-333-41253-2Derry, Caroline. 2020. Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-35299-8Duggan, Lisa. 1993. “The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America” in Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader, ed. Robert J. Corber and Stephen Valocchi. Oxford: Blackwell. pp.73-87Eriksson, Brigitte. 1985. “A Lesbian Execution in Germany, 1721: The Trial Records” in Licata, Salvatore J. & Robert P. Petersen (eds). The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 0-918393-11-6 (Also published as Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 6, numbers 1/2, Fall/Winter 1980.)Fernandez, André. 1997. “The Repression of Sexual Behavior by the Aragonese Inquisition between 1560 and 1700” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 7:4 pp.469-501Friedli, Lynne. 1987. “Passing Women: A Study of Gender Boundaries in the Eighteenth Century” in Rousseau, G. S. and Roy Porter (eds). Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 0-8078-1782-1Hindmarch-Watson, Katie. 2008. "Lois Schwich, the Female Errand Boy: Narratives of Female Cross-Dressing in Late-Victorian London" in GLQ 14:1, 69-98.History Project, The. 1998. Improper Bostonians. Beacon Press, Boston. ISBN 0-8070-7948-0Holler, Jacqueline. 1999. “’More Sins than the Queen of England’: Marina de San Miguel before the Mexican Inquisition” in Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New World, ed. Mary E. Giles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. ISBN 0-8018-5931-X pp.209-28Hubbard, Thomas K. 2003. Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-520-23430-7Hutchison, Emily & Sara McDougall. 2022. “Pardonable Sodomy: Uncovering Laurence’s Sin and Recovering the Range of the Possible” in Medieval People, vol. 37, pp. 115-146.Karras, Ruth Mazo. 2005. Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-415-28963-4Lansing, Carol. 2005. “Donna con Donna? A 1295 Inquest into Female Sodomy” in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History: Sexuality and Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, Third Series vol. II: 109-122.Lucas, R. Valerie. 1988. “’Hic Mulier’: The Female Transvestite in Early Modern England” in Renaissance and Reformation 12:1 pp.65-84Merrick, Jeffrey & Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. 2001. Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-...
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    52 mins
  • On the Shelf for January 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 304

    On the Shelf for January 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 304
    Jan 4 2025
    On the Shelf for January 2025 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 304 with Heather Rose Jones

    Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

    In this episode we talk about:

    • Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
      • Turton, Stephen. 2024. Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary 1600-1930. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-316-51873-1
    • Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
      • Christmas At Caldwell House (The Caldwell Family #2) by Eden Hopewell
      • Bold Privateer (The Covert Captain prequel) by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
      • The Bawdy Suffragettes by Sapphic Shelley
      • Unspoken Verses by S.P. Blackthorn
      • A Traitorous Heart by Erin Cotter
      • Those Fatal Flowers by Shannon Ives
      • Seducing the Widow by Jane Walsh
      • Her Ladyship's Christmas Companion by Theresa Meiningen
      • The Songbird by Stacy Lynn Miller
    • Other Titles of Interest
      • The Spirit Circle by Tara Calaby
    • What I’ve been consuming
      • The Lotus Empire (Burning Kingdomes #3) by Tasha Suri
      • I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner
      • Masters in this Hall by K.J. Charles
      • Bold Privateer by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
      • A Ruse of Shadows (Lady Sherlock #8) by Sherry Thomas
      • The Duke’s Sister and I by Emma-Claire Sunday
      • A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
    • Call for submissions for the 2025 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.

    A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)

    Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

    • Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
    • Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
    • RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
    • Twitter: @LesbianMotif
    • Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
    • The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

    Links to Heather Online

    • Website: http://alpennia.com
    • Email: Heather Rose Jones
    • Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
    • Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
    • Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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    21 mins
  • Interview with Margaret Vandenburg - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 303

    Interview with Margaret Vandenburg - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 303
    Dec 16 2024
    Interview with Margaret Vandenburg The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 303 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about:

    • Too many things to list individually
    • Books and people mentioned
      • Magnus Hirschfeld
      • Virginia Woolf - A Room of One’s Own
      • Margaret Vandenburg - An American in Paris
      • Djuna Barnes - Nightwood
      • Virginia Woolf - Orlando
      • Chappell Roan
      • Oscar Wilde
      • Emma Donoghue – The Pull of the Stars
      • Gertrude Stein
      • Michel Foucault - The History of Sexuality
      • Golden Crown Literary Society
      • Olivia Waite - Feminine Pursuits series

    A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)

    Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

    • Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
    • Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
    • RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
    • Twitter: @LesbianMotif
    • Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
    • The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

    Links to Heather Online

    • Website: http://alpennia.com
    • Email: Heather Rose Jones
    • Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
    • Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
    • Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

    Links to Margaret Vandenburg Online

    • Website: https://www.margaretvandenburg.com/
    • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/margaretvandenburgwriter
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    1 hr and 5 mins

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