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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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Saturday Dec 17, 2022
Saturday Dec 17, 2022
Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 5: Widows
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 246 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- The trope of widowed characters in historic romance
- A survey of the legal, economic, and cultural norms for widows across many societies
- How widows interact differently in f/f romances than in f/m stories
- Brainstorming romantic plots for widowed heroines
- Background reading from the blog
- Beattie, Cordelia. 2007. Medieval Single Women: The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-928341-5
- Froide, Amy M. 1999. “Marital Status as a Category of Difference: Singlewomen and Widows in Early Modern England” in Bennett, Judith M. & Amy M. Froide eds. Singlewomen in the European Past 1250-1800. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 0-8122-1668-7
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Widows
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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