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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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Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Book Appreciation with Stephanie Burgis
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 145 with Heather Rose Jones
In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured authors (or your host) will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting.
In this episode we talk about:
- Books mentioned
A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Stephanie Burgis Online
- Website: stephanieburgis.com
- Instagram: stephanieburgisinwales
- Twitter: @stephanieburgis
- Goodreads: Stephanie Burgis
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Interview with Stephanie Burgis
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 144 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
- Books mentioned
- Snowspelled by Stephanie Burgis (YA/adult, f/f minor characters)
- Thornbound by Stephanie Burgis (YA/adult, f/f minor characters)
- Moontangled by Stephanie Burgis (YA/adult, f/f romance)
- Masks and Shadows by Stephanie Burgis (adult, not f/f)
- Kat, Incorrigible by Stephanie Burgis (middle-grade, not f/f)
- The Disastrous Debut of Agatha Tremaine by Stephanie Burgis (adult f/f, short story)
- Congress of Secrets by Stephanie Burgis (adult, not f/f)
- The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart by Stephanie Burgis (middle-grade, not f/f)
A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Stephanie Burgis Online
- Website: stephanieburgis.com
- Instagram: stephanieburgisinwales
- Twitter: @stephanieburgis
- Goodreads: Stephanie Burgis
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
On the Shelf for February 2020
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 143 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- What your host has been writing lately
- What’s New at Bella - A new lesfic podcast from Bella books
- Submissions are closed for the 2020 Fiction Series. Check the LHMPodcast Index Page for an announcement of the first story.
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Rupp, Leila J. 2013. "Thinking About 'Lesbian History'" in Feminist Studies vol. 39, no 2 357-361.
- Vicinus, Martha. 2012. "The History of Lesbian History" in Feminist Studies vol. 38, no. 3 566-596.
- Foucault, Michel. 1990. The History of Sexuality. Vintage Books, New York. ISBN 978-0-679-72469-8
- Andreadis, Harriette. 1989. “The Sapphic-Platonics of Katherine Philips, 1632-1664” in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 15(1):34-60. (link will only be live after the blog posts)
- Gubar, Susan. 1984. "Sapphistries" in Signs vol. 10, no. 1 43-62. (link will only be live after the blog posts)
- Hallett, Judith. 1979. “Sappho and Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality. in Signs 4: 447-464. (link will only be live after the blog posts)
- Announcing this month’s author guest, Stephanie Burgis
- New and forthcoming fiction
- The Traveler - Book One: The Hunted by Kim Pritekel
- Merchants of Milan: Book One of the Night Flyer Trilogy by Edale Lane
- Pioneer Hearts by Becky Harris
- Belle Revolte by Linsey Miler
- Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland
- Moontangled by Stephanie Burgis
- The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- End of War in Thermopylae (Thermopylae Bound Book 6) by Belinda Harrison
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Iphis and Ianthe
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 142 with Heather Rose Jones
Tracing same-sex and transgender themes in Ovid’s Classical Roman tale of forbidden love across the ages.
In this episode we talk about:
- Who was Ovid and what type of story was the Metamorphoses?
- The basic plot of the story and the motif of inappropriate love objects
- Gender identity and sexuality in Iphis and Ianthe
- Medieval transmission and the purpose of the “moralized Ovid”
- The Renaissance translations return to Ovid’s original
- Adapting Iphis in Yde and Olive and Gallathea
- Iphis and Ianthe as a mirror for women through the centuries looking for a model of same-sex love
- References
- Caxton, William. 2013. The Booke of Ovyde Named Methamorphose. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto. ISBN 978-0-88844-182-9
- Durling, Nancy Vine. 1989. “Rewriting Gender: Yde et Olive and Ovidian Myth” in Romance Languages Annual 1: 256-62.
- Golding, Arthur. 1567. P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, translated oute of Latin into English meeter. Willyam Seres, London.
- Gower, John. 2013. Confessio Amantis vol. 2 edited by Russell A. Peck, with Latin translations by Andrew Galloway. TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. Medieval Institute Publications, Kalamazoo.
- Hallett, Judith P. 1997. “Female Homoeroticism and the Denial of Roman Reality in Latin Literature” in Roman Sexualities, ed. By Judith P. Hallett & Marilyn B. Skinner, Princeton University Press, Princeton.
- Hubbard, Thomas K. 2003. Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-520-23430-7
- Mills, Robert. 2015. Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-16912-5
- Pintabone, Diane T. "Ovid's Iphis and Ianthe: When Girls Won't Be Girls” in Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin & Lisa Auanger eds. 2002. Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World. University of Texas Press, Austin. ISBN 0-29-77113-4
- Watt, Diane 1998. "Behaving like a man? Incest, Lesbian desire, and gender play in 'Yde et Olive' and its adaptations", Comparative Literature, 50, 4 (Fall 1998): 265-85.
- Walen, Denise A. 2005. Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6875-3
- The full text of Gower’s Confessio Amantis can be found at the website of the TEAMS Middle English Texts Series
- The full text of Golding’s 1567 translation of the Metamorphoses is available from Wikisource
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Metamorphoses: Iphis and Ianthe (Ovid)
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Book Appreciation with Kate Heartfield
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 141 with Heather Rose Jones
In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured authors (or your host) will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting.
In this episode we talk about:
- Books mentioned
A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Kate Heartfield Online
- Website: heartfieldfiction.com
- Twitter: @kateheartfield
- Facebook: Kate Heartfield
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Interview with Kate Heartfield
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 140 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
- Time-travel novels
- Books mentioned
A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Kate Heartfield Online
- Website: heartfieldfiction.com
- Twitter: @kateheartfield
- Facebook: Kate Heartfield
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
On the Shelf for January 2020
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 139 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- Future Patreon content
- The 2020 fiction series
- Current markets for f/f historical short fiction
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Valerie Traub “The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England”
- Tim Hitchcock "The Reformulation of Sexual Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century England"
- Randolph Trumbach "The Transformation of Sodomy from the Renaissance to the Modern World and Its General Sexual Consequences”
- John Boswell Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
- John Boswell Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
- Leila Rupp “Thinking about ‘Lesbian History’”
- Martha Vicinus “The History of Lesbian History”
- Michel Foucault The History of Sexuality
- Announcing this month’s author guest, Kate Heartfield
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Markets and Calls for Submissions
- Call for submissions for the 2020 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
- Call for submissions for the Silk and Steel anthology (not affiliated with this podcast) See here for details.
- Market information for “A Story Most Queer” podcast
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Lesbian Vikings
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 138 with Heather Rose Jones
An episode by request about research into women’s same-sex relations in early medieval Norse culture, and f/f fiction inspired by it.
In this episode we talk about:
- What do we mean by “Viking”?
- Homosexuality in Norse culture
- Lesbian-relevant themes in Norse culture
- Stories of women warriors and gender-crossing
- Warrior women and the archaeology of gender
- Other contexts
- Research References
- The Viking Answer Lady
- Guldgubber: Sharon Ratke’s catalog site
- Clover, Carol J. 1995. "Maiden Warriors and Other Sons" in Robert R. Edwards & Vickie Ziegler (eds). Matrons and Marginal Women in Medieval Society. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge.
- Tolkien, Christopher tran. 1960. Saga Heidreks Kunungs ins Vitra. Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, London.
- There are many other sources of information on both Norse history and on queer themes or warrior women in early Norse culture. Check out the Viking Answer Lady’s site, or the research blog https://kyngervi.wordpress.com for more leads.
- Books mentioned
- “Peace-weaver” by Jennifer Nestoiko. The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast 2018 fiction series
- Thyra's Promise by Natalie Debrabandere
- Taken By the Shield Maiden: A "Bawdy" Tale of Lust by Echo Stardust
- Raw: Dein Leben vor Meinem or “Your Life Before Mine” by Jolene Walker
- Vikings (tv series)
- The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember
- The Navigator’s Touch by Julia Ember
- Wolf and Raven by Dallas Jessica Owen
- The Last Shaman by Dallas Jessica Owen
- Thrall: Beyond Gold and Glory by Barbara Ann Wright
- The Amber Necklace by Alex Pyott
- Heathen by Natasha Alterici (graphic novel)
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Things I Loved in 2019
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 137 with Heather Rose Jones
I talk about the novels, non-fiction, and visual media relevant to queer women in history that I enjoyed in 2019
Novels
- Life Mask by Emma Donoghue
- The Ghost and the Machine by Benny Lawrence
- Two Wings to Fly Away by Penny Mickelbury
- A Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite
- The True Queen by Zen Cho
- Bonus non-historical book: The Hounds of Justice by Claire O’Dell
Non-Fiction
- Brown, 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.
- Nederman, Cary J. and Jacqui True. 1996. “The Third Sex: The Idea of the Hermaphrodite in Twelfth-Century Europe” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:4: 497-517.
- Abbouchi, Mounawar. 2018. “Yde and Olive” in Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality, vol 8.
- Staples, Kate Kelsey. 2011. Daughters of London: Inheriting Opportunity in the Late Middle Ages. Brill, Leiden. ISBN 978-9004203112
- Ehrenhalt, Lizzie and Tilly Laskey (eds). 2019. Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890-1918. Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul. ISBN 978-1-68134-129-3
- Bonus non-fiction item: Examining the OED - Case Study: Terms for Lesbian(ism) - http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/content/view/435/485/index.html accessed 2019/04/28
Visual Media
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Monday Oct 12, 2020
The Highwaywoman Special (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 136 with Heather Rose Jones
This is a reprise of my first “fifth week special” episode, when I have to come up with something outside my 4-topic rotation. Today we have a multi-media look at female highwaymen in history, song, and story, including five lesbian highwaywoman romances.
In this episode we talk about:
- The historic era of the highwaymen
- Ballads featuring female highwaymen (you get to hear me sing!)
- Women in history who went “on the pad” as they say, or who were rumored to have done so
- The most popular formula for lesbian highwaywoman novels
- Five lesbian highwaywoman romances, plus one bonus highway robbery incident
The various persons and works discussed or presented in this podcast (in order of appearance) are as follows. Some historic references may apply to more than one person.
- “The Highwayman” (excerpt, lyrics by Alfred Noyes music by Phil Ochs, performed by Heather Rose Jones)
- “The Female Highway Hector”, 1683-1703 (excerpt, anonymous broadside ballad, sung to the tune “The Rant”, performed by Heather Rose Jones)
- Historic highwaywomen Joan Bracey, Ann Meders, Nan Hereford
- Rumored highwaywomen Katherine Ferrers (“The Wicked Lady”) and Mary Frith (Moll Cutpurse)
- “Sovay, or The Female Highwayman” (full text, traditional ballad, music traditional?, performed by Heather Rose Jones)
- For cross-dressing motifs in literature in general:
Novels with Highwaywoman Romances
- Rebeccah and the Highwayman by Barbara Davies (Bedazzled Ink, 2008)
- The Locket and the Flintlock by Rebecca S Buck (Bold Strokes Books, 2012)
- Daring and Decorum by Lawrence Hogue (Supposed Crimes, 2017)
- The Mask of the Highwaywoman by Niamh Murphy (self-published, 2017)
- Behind the Mask by Kim Larabee (Alyson Books, 1989 out of print)
- “The Mazarinette and the Musketeer” by Heather Rose Jones (self-published, 2016)
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)